Hi Everyone,
I posted about my Wheaten terrier several months ago. Now she’s a 10 month old female and we still have the same bathroom issues with her.
To summarize, we have 2 dogs: a 2.5 year old male mini schnauzer and a 10 month old female wheaten terrier named Mika. She’s a wonderful dog with one HUGE problem that has been weighing on my so heavily, it’s been the biggest stress in my life. We walk her several times a day (4-5x) and she is usually very good when we’re home. I don’t want to say she never has any accidents, but they don’t happen that often. When we’re at work during the day, we leave both of our dogs in the kitchen of our house, gated off from the rest of the apartment. Without fail, she will go 9 out of 10 times when we’re not home. We have tried crate training her several times, but it has never worked for her. We will come home (after even 2 hours) and she will be sitting in her own poop or pee. Yes, the crate was of proper size where she could stand, turn around and that’s it. Didn’t work. We took her to the vet to rule out anything medical, so we do know she’s perfectly healthy. We even started measuring her water intake.. After many frustrating months, we decided to hire a trainer. After hearing our entire story, she thought that Mika simply cannot hold it and that’s why she goes during the day. It was a possibility but there were many incidents where we would walk her right before we left the house, leave for 2-3 hours and come back to an accident. We then decided to record their activity while we weren’t home. There were some days where she would poop (or pee) an hour after we left and after she was just walked, and some where she would go 5 hours later. It didn’t seem that she was stressed or anxious. She would be lying there, or chewing on her toy and then get up and just go. It’s almost as she thinks she’s allowed to go there… that’s what I get from it. Of course this happens when we’re not home, so we’re not there to correct her and show her what’s right (we always praise her when she goes outside). So you guys can see why this is so unbelievably frustrating. I come home every day and have to clean poop and pee and am ready to just cry. Sorry for sounding like such a baby! I’m not really sure how to correct this or what we can do from here, but I would greatly appreciate any feedback anyone might have. Thank you so much.
I posted about my Wheaten terrier several months ago. Now she’s a 10 month old female and we still have the same bathroom issues with her.
To summarize, we have 2 dogs: a 2.5 year old male mini schnauzer and a 10 month old female wheaten terrier named Mika. She’s a wonderful dog with one HUGE problem that has been weighing on my so heavily, it’s been the biggest stress in my life. We walk her several times a day (4-5x) and she is usually very good when we’re home. I don’t want to say she never has any accidents, but they don’t happen that often. When we’re at work during the day, we leave both of our dogs in the kitchen of our house, gated off from the rest of the apartment. Without fail, she will go 9 out of 10 times when we’re not home. We have tried crate training her several times, but it has never worked for her. We will come home (after even 2 hours) and she will be sitting in her own poop or pee. Yes, the crate was of proper size where she could stand, turn around and that’s it. Didn’t work. We took her to the vet to rule out anything medical, so we do know she’s perfectly healthy. We even started measuring her water intake.. After many frustrating months, we decided to hire a trainer. After hearing our entire story, she thought that Mika simply cannot hold it and that’s why she goes during the day. It was a possibility but there were many incidents where we would walk her right before we left the house, leave for 2-3 hours and come back to an accident. We then decided to record their activity while we weren’t home. There were some days where she would poop (or pee) an hour after we left and after she was just walked, and some where she would go 5 hours later. It didn’t seem that she was stressed or anxious. She would be lying there, or chewing on her toy and then get up and just go. It’s almost as she thinks she’s allowed to go there… that’s what I get from it. Of course this happens when we’re not home, so we’re not there to correct her and show her what’s right (we always praise her when she goes outside). So you guys can see why this is so unbelievably frustrating. I come home every day and have to clean poop and pee and am ready to just cry. Sorry for sounding like such a baby! I’m not really sure how to correct this or what we can do from here, but I would greatly appreciate any feedback anyone might have. Thank you so much.
