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My Irish Terrier pup is now 11 weeks old. She's an absolutely delightful little dog, but I'm encountering kind of an odd house-training issue and wondered if any of you has some advice or experience with this. She is having regular bowel movements outdoors and has not pooped in the house yet, but the issue is a weird one with peeing....
We are crate training and that is going very well. She'll go about 6-8 hours at night without needing to go out to pee (although she has had a couple of pee accidents in her crate, so I went back to letting her out in the middle of the night for a few days, and now she is sleeping through again). During the day she will often sleep for 4-5 hours without needing to go out to pee, but between the hours of 5 pm and 10 pm she needs to pee almost every 15 minutes it seems!
This seems to be when most of her indoor accidents are occurring as even though I try to respond whenever she indicates a need to go out (such as heading to the door or whining) she seems to need to go out almost constantly. I've also noticed that the urine seems very dilute, very little "pee" odour - like she's loading up on water or something?
I'm kind of puzzled by this, as she can go hours and hours without wanting to go out, and then in a 5 hour span she needs to go out frequently. Is this weird or has anyone else found this with a new puppy?
I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice as I'm kinda baffled here, LOL! Thanks in advance!
We are crate training and that is going very well. She'll go about 6-8 hours at night without needing to go out to pee (although she has had a couple of pee accidents in her crate, so I went back to letting her out in the middle of the night for a few days, and now she is sleeping through again). During the day she will often sleep for 4-5 hours without needing to go out to pee, but between the hours of 5 pm and 10 pm she needs to pee almost every 15 minutes it seems!
This seems to be when most of her indoor accidents are occurring as even though I try to respond whenever she indicates a need to go out (such as heading to the door or whining) she seems to need to go out almost constantly. I've also noticed that the urine seems very dilute, very little "pee" odour - like she's loading up on water or something?
I'm kind of puzzled by this, as she can go hours and hours without wanting to go out, and then in a 5 hour span she needs to go out frequently. Is this weird or has anyone else found this with a new puppy?
I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice as I'm kinda baffled here, LOL! Thanks in advance!