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Dog pees in house at night if not in crate

  • 03-09-2020 5:32pm
    #1
    cinnabar
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    Sorry - its long. The title sums it up but full details below for context.

    My lovely 12 month old retriever was crate trained when I got her at 5 months but not properly toilet trained. It took a couple of months to get her to ask to go outside to pee, and even up to recently, if you didn't respond to her fast enough she would pee inside. I had never had a crate trained dog before but I went with it and she sleeps the night there happily enough. She never bothers with the crate during the day.
    For the first couple of months she used to bark in the morning and I would get up and let her out, but this soon turned in to a game for her and I would be chasing her around the garden at 4am. She never did this in her old home apparently. So (on advice from a trainer) we ignored the barking and eventually she settled down and is well able to go the night without needing to pee (12 - 7/7.30ish). She was great for the last few months.
    I have made a couple of attempts to move her on from the crate because it is huge and takes up half the kitchen and I don't want to have to take it everywhere we go. What happens though, if I leave the cage open at night (she is confined to the kitchen), she sometimes barks (could be any time of night) and if I don't go down to her she will pee on the floor. The next night she won't bother barking and just pees on the floor. We have put her back in the cage again for the last couple of nights and she has barked the house down all over again. Can anyone offer me any advice please?


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  • #2
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    cinnabar wrote: »
    Sorry - its long. The title sums it up but full details below for context.

    My lovely 12 month old retriever was crate trained when I got her at 5 months but not properly toilet trained. It took a couple of months to get her to ask to go outside to pee, and even up to recently, if you didn't respond to her fast enough she would pee inside. I had never had a crate trained dog before but I went with it and she sleeps the night there happily enough. She never bothers with the crate during the day.
    For the first couple of months she used to bark in the morning and I would get up and let her out, but this soon turned in to a game for her and I would be chasing her around the garden at 4am. She never did this in her old home apparently. So (on advice from a trainer) we ignored the barking and eventually she settled down and is well able to go the night without needing to pee (12 - 7/7.30ish). She was great for the last few months.
    I have made a couple of attempts to move her on from the crate because it is huge and takes up half the kitchen and I don't want to have to take it everywhere we go. What happens though, if I leave the cage open at night (she is confined to the kitchen), she sometimes barks (could be any time of night) and if I don't go down to her she will pee on the floor. The next night she won't bother barking and just pees on the floor. We have put her back in the cage again for the last couple of nights and she has barked the house down all over again. Can anyone offer me any advice please?

    She was well trained, and safe with that routine. If you make a radical change you need to be totally consistent not changing back and forth. Of course she is upset?


  • #3
    Dubl07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Dubl07


    cinnabar wrote: »
    Sorry - its long. The title sums it up but full details below for context.

    My lovely 12 month old retriever was crate trained when I got her at 5 months but not properly toilet trained. It took a couple of months to get her to ask to go outside to pee, and even up to recently, if you didn't respond to her fast enough she would pee inside. I had never had a crate trained dog before but I went with it and she sleeps the night there happily enough. She never bothers with the crate during the day.
    For the first couple of months she used to bark in the morning and I would get up and let her out, but this soon turned in to a game for her and I would be chasing her around the garden at 4am.

    Put her on the lead, be very quiet, just a command of "Go pee" and back inside. Don't allow it to become fun. It's a loo break and that's all. Have you had her checked for a urinary infection? She may be uncomfortable if she's a bit poorly.


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