Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to see what kind of thoughts and feedback I could get from this awesome forum about our little boy (15 week old long hair black shepherd) as he is just so different from our girl (3 year old long coat white shepherd girl) They are absolutely best friends already its so amazing to see.
The problem:
Our girl never pooped or peed in her kennel, EVER. We got seriously lucky, and we know it. She was too much of a 'princess' to soil the place she slept!
But our little boy, he doesn't care in the slightest and will pee and poop very happily in his crate and lay straight down in it without even yelping or crying to let us know!
We take him out every 2 hours on quite a regimented schedule, and this was working an absolute treat from when we picked him up (9 weeks) but I don't know what happened it all seemed to completely go out of whack in the last week (from when he was 14 weeks old) The one thing we can think of is that we are now leashing him when we take him out to pee or poop ( for the first 4 - 5 weeks he would find his own place to pee or poop immediately after letting him outside) and the reason for leashing was that he eventually started to NOT go anymore, and would instead bound around the yard going crazy and having fun instead.
Now, we can often now we can be standing out there for 15 - 20 minutes on the same spot, no play, no interactions and he just doesn't need to go. After putting him back in his crate, after about 30 or so minutes he will pee and then happily lay down in it.
I'm not sure what we are doing wrong, if anything. We excersize and play with him very regularly and we also allow the both both dogs to spend time together and play when he has peed and pooped.
We only crate him for blocks of time during the day as he is not quite potty trained yet, he is an absolute gem through the night, he can sleep soundly from midnight / 1:00am through to 9:00am - 10:00am without ANY pee or poop in the kennel.
Our breeder is absolutely awesome BUT she had a very large crate and trained him to pee / poop on newspaper on half of the crate and his bed was on the other half. We are thinking maybe there is something there, combined with our upped levels of restriction due to leashing and he is rebelling because of that ?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much!
Just wanted to see what kind of thoughts and feedback I could get from this awesome forum about our little boy (15 week old long hair black shepherd) as he is just so different from our girl (3 year old long coat white shepherd girl) They are absolutely best friends already its so amazing to see.
The problem:
Our girl never pooped or peed in her kennel, EVER. We got seriously lucky, and we know it. She was too much of a 'princess' to soil the place she slept!
But our little boy, he doesn't care in the slightest and will pee and poop very happily in his crate and lay straight down in it without even yelping or crying to let us know!
We take him out every 2 hours on quite a regimented schedule, and this was working an absolute treat from when we picked him up (9 weeks) but I don't know what happened it all seemed to completely go out of whack in the last week (from when he was 14 weeks old) The one thing we can think of is that we are now leashing him when we take him out to pee or poop ( for the first 4 - 5 weeks he would find his own place to pee or poop immediately after letting him outside) and the reason for leashing was that he eventually started to NOT go anymore, and would instead bound around the yard going crazy and having fun instead.
Now, we can often now we can be standing out there for 15 - 20 minutes on the same spot, no play, no interactions and he just doesn't need to go. After putting him back in his crate, after about 30 or so minutes he will pee and then happily lay down in it.
I'm not sure what we are doing wrong, if anything. We excersize and play with him very regularly and we also allow the both both dogs to spend time together and play when he has peed and pooped.
We only crate him for blocks of time during the day as he is not quite potty trained yet, he is an absolute gem through the night, he can sleep soundly from midnight / 1:00am through to 9:00am - 10:00am without ANY pee or poop in the kennel.
Our breeder is absolutely awesome BUT she had a very large crate and trained him to pee / poop on newspaper on half of the crate and his bed was on the other half. We are thinking maybe there is something there, combined with our upped levels of restriction due to leashing and he is rebelling because of that ?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much!