House training

CorvusCorax said:
Apologies if I've said this before but most of my dogs have needed to really move around/be taken for a walk on a leash before they poo. Even if they had been in a crate overnight or kennel during a working day or if I was out (and mine are clean in kennel), could take 15 or 20 minutes or more to do a poo.

Someone I know raised a litter in a garage/shed with mats on a concrete floor. A new owner took months and months to stop his puppy going on any sort of mat or carpet in the house.

And I think there was a dog on here that preferred wooden flooring as the house they grew up in had decking where they toileted.
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We are lucky to have our own land, and the garden is about quarter of an acre so we always have a jog around and play even last thing, lots of zoomies with these two!
 
Spotherisk said:
Thanks @Teaselmeg thankfully she doesn’t have separation anxiety - she trots into her crate during the day and evening if she fancies, and waking her up or getting her out of bed is more difficult! She arrived on raw, which she didn’t like, and I loathed (I’m vegetarian), we have tried Forthglade and she wasn’t fussed, but hopefully now I am closer to getting her into a routine with when she eats. Today I’ve weighed food again to check I was about right with the amount I feed (I was), today she’s had half for breakfast, and I’m going to trial 1/4 at lunch and the final 1/4 at around 5pm. I don’t want to keep switching her food about whilst she is still relatively young. Poo has always been generally good. I am hoping she’ll just grow out of it really!
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It might be worth a try, as its a classic sign of anxiety. Or set up a camera at night, so you can watch back and see what she is doing before she poops.

The other thing I thought of is testing her poop for Giardia etc.
 
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