How many trips to the toilet a day?

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I have a general question for all of the dog owners out there.
How often does your dog do a poop a day?

the reason i ask is that we have a puppy who is approx 27 weeks old now. and well, we have a few issues! she isnt getting the whole toilet training thing at all - but i feel a lot of that is down to hubby not being consistant with what i do etc. Anyway, it struck me today that she goes A LOT - well, compared to our old dog.

So on average how often does your dog go? i'll wait for a few replied before i tell you how often shes going!

(our pup is a border collie x lab, bitch, 27 weeks, doesnt have constant access to food or anything like that).
 
My puppy is 10 months and her poops depend very much on what she has had to eat!

She did a little poop this morning and will do a big one before bed time! The most she does is 2 big ones a day unless they are runny for any reason.

When she is on raw her poops are much nicer (If a poop can be nice??)

Have a look at what your feeding if the poops are plentiful!

Oh and if we go anywhere exciting she will do a huge one.... usually when I cant find a bag...
 
My puppies did loads!!

I found that routine was the best in getting them housetrained though!

Wee as soon as they wake up.
Poo after breakfast

Always out for wee wee after a good game!

The main rule was pee in the morning and after play, poo after food :D God I hope that makes more sense reading it than it did writing it :p
 
Well, my girl Ebby isn't a pup. I did the garden clean up thing yesterday. I have been VERY lazy and haven't cleaned up since the snow, so lets be honest and say there were lots! She normally does very small ones and has no toilet manners at all so does a bit here and finishes off there kinda gal! Drives me mad, but we all love her regardless!
 
so yeah - she is going far too much!

i believe hubby had her out this am and she had done one overnight (was last taken out just before 1am) so thats 2....
when i got up i moved 2... and had her back outside....
fed her breakfast... got my twins breakfast (takes a matter of minutes) and lone and behold the dog had done another.....
went shopping - came home to another 2....
gave the children their lunch - later than normal and she had been again!

so thats 8 before 4pm! a couple were small piles but others were full sized ones - quite 'firm' and well, normal!

shes also very good and going outside, then comes back inside and wees - when i got outside with her she just wants to play but i ignore her as shes there to go to the toilet... but she then entertains herself by wizzing around like a nutter, or trying to catch the koi in the pond etc.

she also wont go on the grass.... and will only do it on the patio when outside! i even bought a house puppy toilet thing that had fake grass at the top etc - she totally ignored that.

Feed wise, she now has a mixed of dry and tinned. She was originally on just dried but she started to leave it and much prefers some real meat mixed in! the food difference hasnt had much change on her poops.

I think maybe a trip to the vets is in order but not sure what they can do really - but maybe there is something? Hubby is really really fed up with us having to constantly clean up after her and wants me to rehome her (he is the one who insisted on a puppy rather than an older dog).

I really want to try and get her sorted as she is a lovable thing and she had already been to 2 homes before she was 8 weeks old - the guy i bought her from had been feeding her adult dog food (in gravy which our old dog used to find too rich) and also human food - saying 'she loves chips' this is before she was 8 weeks - so i am now wondering if such food damaged her bowel control or something?

what a thing to be disgusing lol!
 
luckilotti said:
She was originally on just dried but she started to leave it and much prefers some real meat mixed in! the food difference hasnt had much change on her poops.
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I would just like to point out that tinned food doesn't even remotely resemble 'real meat' and is probably the source of a lot of the volume. :p

Someone more experienced will be along in a second I'm sure but I'd be a big advocate for a raw or a grain-free dry diet and a fixed poop routine - pup eats, pup goes outside for poops, pup drinks, pup goes outside, pup plays, pup goes outside, pup so much as breathes (;)), pup goes outside. Lots of praise for anything done outside, ignore anything done inside and use a proper detergent so no smell for pup to go back to.
 
Is she peeing inside to?

You need to tether her to you while you are in the house.
Outside every hour on the hour and make a HUGE fuss when she goes outside.

Don't tell her off if she goes inside just a firm "No" to interrupt her then take her outside to finish.

Use an enzyme cleaner to clean after her nothing else gets rid of the smell for them.

Get her off the canned food it probably has no real meat in it at all if you get it from the store.
Make sure she is on a really great quality dry food.
 
As above, get her on a better diet, tinned meat makes dogs crap for England, and so does poor quality dry, the rule is the better the quality the less motions:D

I woud recommend changing her to Fish4dogs or James well beloved with sardines (cheaper than a tin of nasty canned meat) and much better for her.

If she is still toileting indoors u need a better rotuine, and u need to lessen her space, for instance if she roams the house or has a access to a whole room when u are out, that is wherre u are going wrong, I would introduce a crate or create a smaller more confined area to help teach her to hold.
I would also be feeding 1 meal a day at this stage with toilet isues, and no later then 5pm, unless her weight is an issue.
 
Pickle is 13 weeks old now and she does between 3-4 poo's a day. We are very lucky that she is clean indoors but we are anal about putting her out, every 30 mins - an hour at a push, IF we forget then she could have an accident if upstairs with us but if downstairs she will ask to go out. She is clean overnight in her crate. Don't know if this helps at all but good luck!
 
Male - 2 x poos a day, multiple wees.

Female - Little muckspreader, wees like a hen!

There will be a lot of water in the canned food so should see a difference if you remove it. Try adding eggs, fish oil, tuna or natural yog to add flavour instead.

Remember her bladder and bowels are only small still.
 
Thanks for the replies

so far i have only used 2 standard tins - and she had less than half a day, other days instead of the tinned bit she had fresh chicken, part of a joint of beef etc - but she was pooping this much before?

We did initial try the crate training - but she chewed and wrecked it, so we bought another but hubby then decided she was just making too much of a smell etc so moved her to the back kitchen - where she had free run (not a massive space) but we have a safety gate into the kitchen and when hubby isnt about i let her wonder around with me. teh back kitchen though has a door to the garden so its quick,

before for example, she started to bark so i took her in the garden, she just ran back inside and didnt want to be out at all - she hasnt gone inside though yet (hope i havent just jinxed myself!)

hubby has also come home from work telling me one of him work mates friends will have her! his work mate though did tell my husband he should give her a chance.

at the moment she has the Pedigree Chum dry puppy food as her main, she will only have the chicken as the beef she doesnt like and seems to give her the runs.

when i read a dog book last year, the author was mentioning a real diet of bones, real meat etc but we dont have any butchers etc local otherwise i would try that route. I'll have to go to Pets at Home or somewhere where they may have a larger range of foods that i can have a good look at - locally the only puppy foods they seem to sell are their own brand of Pedigree Chum,

Thanks again for the replies - i am pretty determined to give her a full chance - i just wish i had hubbys support!
 
How did u introduce her to the crate? as there is a user friendly method, to just put one up and then place the dog in will cause no end of stress, so if u want a crate guide give me a shout, I rehome hundreds of dogs like this girl go get passed from pillar to post through lack of patience and routine and it takes all of a few days to solve the training issues that where tackled badly, giving the dog little chance to learn, we crate train mostly every dog we get in, in order to find them a home where the nesxt person does not have these kinds of issues with the dog.

PAH should stock the JamesWell Beloved puppy food (I pop there to get it for dogs going to new homes), I would get the fish variety and sardines to mix in it.
 
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