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Post by dogandbone on Sept 23, 2011 11:33:28 GMT
I wish breeders would take the small and simple step of giving the litter of puppies their own bed and seperate area for messing with newspaper, shavings or whatever for their pees etc!! I always do this for my litters!
I have bought several puppies (over the years!) and the ones who have come from a home where they have been reared in an outside kennel, or shed or whatever with no seperate bed to sleep in, have all, yes all been dirty in their bed, on the blanket etc. Equally the opposite is true!
I now have an adorable puppy C*cker spaniel, now 5 months old, and had her since 8 weeks lol. She is just fab in every way, clean all day, but every night she poos and, or wets her blanket. Needless to say she was reared in an outside shed - it was spotless every time I went to see her, but the litter just had an 'area' they slept in - no house keeping on their part!!!
I have her in a large cage with seperate bed and blanket, and newspaper area. She is very happy in it, and she is in the same room with my other dogs for company. I have tried spraying her bed with 'get off' - designed to keep cats and dogs from fouling areas of garden etc - but it makes no difference - ANY SUGGESTIONS GREATLY RECEIVED!
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Post by B_31 on Sept 23, 2011 12:53:39 GMT
Take her out more often. Every hour if needed in the day. At night get up and let her out if you want her clean....! and tbh getting a pub from dirty sheds wouldnt even cross my mind. We got our BC's from a yard in a pig pen!! they were fine to housetrain Our spaniel was raised in the house and again clean - beacuse i put the time in  Bit more house training needed |
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Post by colourful on Sept 23, 2011 21:28:14 GMT
Wholly agree with Edge of Reason - all dogs are naturally clean - given the opportunity, your dog may not differentiate between bed and " soil area" - its all home to your dog and they hate to soil their home unless the arent given any choice in the matter.
My 5 dogs were raised outside and not one of them soil their kennel or beds - because they are out regularly and do " their business" elsewhere.
Spaniels are the most active dogs you can have - more out and less in should sort it for you. Good luck, fab fun little dogs cockers. ;D
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Post by m@m on Sept 24, 2011 18:46:57 GMT
my two kenneled ones are generally clean, but dont agree that all dogs are natually clean given chance, iv got four in house and all but one is clean and is in and out house all day, with door open, walked, and i can go upstairs for 5 minutes and she'l mess, i can let them out last thing at say half twelve at night and wait till they'v all been and be up by 7 and there be mess, some dogs are just difficult.
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dazycutter
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Post by dazycutter on Sept 26, 2011 14:11:36 GMT
I agree M+M.. some are more tricky than others... time and patience... my latest pup that I bred (indoors with a toilet area) is the dirtiest of the lot...little minx...
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Post by dogandbone on Sept 27, 2011 14:22:52 GMT
Thanks all - My dogs have the door open all day long amd have masses of optional 'out time'! This puppy (nearly 6 months old now) does all her soiling outside all day, its just at night she is dirty - Having said that, the last three nights, having put her in a cage with just her vet bed blanket, and no newspaper area seperate, she has been clean, so I am hoping the problem is solved!!
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dazycutter
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Post by dazycutter on Sept 28, 2011 20:04:03 GMT
she is still a baby.... dont worry too much... my little girl still had night time messes till she was 9 months.... good luck
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Post by Bonnyville on Oct 22, 2011 8:59:00 GMT
get some puppy training pads? they seem to help my firends dog my dogs having a litter of puppies atm and we have them in the house and put a pen to the door and if they go out they get a treat so they go out haha |
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Post by mint on Dec 9, 2011 22:28:30 GMT
Possibly change the times that you feed her.
Try her out of the cage overnight, she could be worried hence the whoopsies.
Some are just dirty, or do it out of nerves, bit of time should see her grow out of it, hopefully.
My pups are kennelled overnight, I find that they soil a certain area of the pen and sleep in another area, they are in the house daily form 6 weeks old, I put news papers down and call them outside for pee pees 20 mins after feeding, by the time they are ready to go to their homes - 8 weeks they are partly house trained, however what happens next is out of my control, I prefer my new owners to take a couple of weeks off work to help a pup settle in. (I usualy have them sold by 5-6 weeks, then spend the next 2-3 weeks socialising them and doing this basic training, but only because I want them to be as easy as possible for their new homes, because I breed border collies, I am also a little fussy as to where they go - part time workers, retired or farm homes usually, unless someone really wins me over)
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