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I posted this in the welcome forum as well...
We (my fiance and I) have been doing dog rescuing for awhile now (she has done it for 15 years), and we have saved and re-homed several different breeds (mastiffs, boxers, rotts, etc). We also own 2 English Bulldogs (Bubba and Yeti), and this past Fathers Day we were able to pick up a female GSD that we named Karma.
She is amazingly smart (compared to our bullies) and willing to please, and play, and learn. We are slowly training her to be an amazing dog. However we have hit one hurdle that we just can't seem get over, and hope someone here can help us out!
We crate our fur babies at night and while we are at work. When we are home, it's a fury of fur everywhere! That isn't the issue. What we are running into with Karma, is that it's a hit or miss on her going the bathroom in her crate. She is house broken, and isn't fixed at this time (only 6mo old). This past week I started to let her outside to do her business alone, 10 minutes before we go to bed (9pm), and when we wake up, (5am) she has gone the bathroom 4 out of the 5 mornings this week. One morning was #1 and #2! Coming home (5pm) she has gone the bathroom 5/5 times this week.
This morning she was let outside for the 20-30 minutes with the bullies like she is every morning. Put her away at 545, and i went to work. My fiance let her out at 8am-830am this morning, before putting her in the crate and left to run errands. She came home at noon, and Karma had peed in the crate again. We have talked about putting her back into a smaller crate to see if that's the problem or not.
We understand she is still a puppy and accidents happen, but at one point she had gone a month without accidents, through the night, and/or the day in her crate. Then she started having them, and they went away again for 3-4 weeks, and now they are back again.
Any advice? This is our first experience owning one of these beautiful creatures, and I like how she stays close to my two little girls (one reason we got her).
We (my fiance and I) have been doing dog rescuing for awhile now (she has done it for 15 years), and we have saved and re-homed several different breeds (mastiffs, boxers, rotts, etc). We also own 2 English Bulldogs (Bubba and Yeti), and this past Fathers Day we were able to pick up a female GSD that we named Karma.
She is amazingly smart (compared to our bullies) and willing to please, and play, and learn. We are slowly training her to be an amazing dog. However we have hit one hurdle that we just can't seem get over, and hope someone here can help us out!
We crate our fur babies at night and while we are at work. When we are home, it's a fury of fur everywhere! That isn't the issue. What we are running into with Karma, is that it's a hit or miss on her going the bathroom in her crate. She is house broken, and isn't fixed at this time (only 6mo old). This past week I started to let her outside to do her business alone, 10 minutes before we go to bed (9pm), and when we wake up, (5am) she has gone the bathroom 4 out of the 5 mornings this week. One morning was #1 and #2! Coming home (5pm) she has gone the bathroom 5/5 times this week.
This morning she was let outside for the 20-30 minutes with the bullies like she is every morning. Put her away at 545, and i went to work. My fiance let her out at 8am-830am this morning, before putting her in the crate and left to run errands. She came home at noon, and Karma had peed in the crate again. We have talked about putting her back into a smaller crate to see if that's the problem or not.
We understand she is still a puppy and accidents happen, but at one point she had gone a month without accidents, through the night, and/or the day in her crate. Then she started having them, and they went away again for 3-4 weeks, and now they are back again.
Any advice? This is our first experience owning one of these beautiful creatures, and I like how she stays close to my two little girls (one reason we got her).