Dog pooing in house overnight!

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4 year old house trained (or was!) dog has started to poo in the house overnight. We have had her for 4 months and this has only started in the last week. The first time I thought she just must have been desperate but it’s now feeling like it’s become a bit of a habit. She comes to the yard with us all day every day, goes twice a day at the yard like clockwork, doesn’t eat late. Half the issue is she doesn’t make a sound when she wants to go outside so if we’re downstairs we just spot her make her way to the door where she just stands quietly and we let her out. So I should imagine in the night she goes and stands at the door in silence and we are non the wiser that she wants to go out. We let her out between 10-11pm before we go up to bed so she has the opportunity to go then but doesn’t.
A friend of mine has a bell hanging from her back door that her little dog taps when she wants to go outside so I’m wondering how easy this would be to teach her.
Help please on how to stop this!!
 
Clodagh said:
I’d go out with her for her last go round and stay out there until she goes. She might need to be taken up the road a little way. Does she have a particular poo patch in the garden?
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No particular patch! I think that might be the way to go though is to just be out there until she goes and then plenty of praise!
 
Widgeon said:
Definitely this, we have half an acre of garden but our dog won't poo in it. He has to be taken halfway up the village!
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Our dog also needs a walk to go, won't go in garden unless tummy is upset. He's also very quiet when asking to go out. Hubby or daughter normally hear 🤞
 
One of ours did that for sometime when we first got her, she had previously lived outside. As suggested she always had supervision for the last toilet break at night and stayed out until she did one.

It eventually worked but we also thoroughly cleaned with one of those specific odour eliminating cleaners the area on the kitchen floor that she had been using. Working on the theory that she had marked her toilet area and the smell we couldn't smell, but her doggy nose could, endorsed her need to go during the night, IYSWIM?
 
Mr. J can stand out there with her for 20 minutes with not so much as a sniff of her doing one. However, if the cows are running in the field next door then off she goes like an Olympian chasing them away from her fence line, a poo is usually forthcoming in a few brief seconds after such high level guarding activity. 😊
 
We had similar with Ivy when we first had her (not the going in the house, the not going on evening walks or in the garden at bed time). I think the suggestion on here was give her a bit longer lead on the walk or when we took her out in the garden (in the early days we had her on lead in the garden). Sounds weird but fairly sure it helped!
 
The walk thing sounds a complete pita but we had one that started wee’ing every night on the freezer, he was house trained but at bed time just seemed to want to be as quick as possible into bed. He’d go out, even with me out there and just stand at the door to go back in. So I did start a little walk and it worked. I didn’t have to do it for long but it seemed to create the habit. As soon as the deed was done we turned and went in.
Id been reluctant to do it as I thought it may be a forever thing that I didn’t really want to get into, (although the cleaning up in the morning was also a thing I didn’t want to be getting into!)
So it may not mean that you have to be walking at night forever, just long enough to break one and make another habit.
 
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