Words.. Have Escaped Me..

[KatieRae]

...I can't win..

Back in the kennel..

[collegal]

oh no!! You poor thing. At first I was like aww that's not soooo bad - then I realized WHAT was all over the floor.

Not the welcome you want when you come home.

[themamabeth]

Oh no. I'm sorry.

[Titan3151]

oh boy....

the poop behind the door reminds me of my mini schnauzer... when he was mad at me... he would do that behind the door and I could almost hear him laughing when I opened it and smeared it across the floor...

sorry.... puppies will be puppies...

do you have a hallway you can block him off in while you are gone with tile... maybe the kitchen with tile (baby latch the cupboards)

good luck... he will grow out of that soon... hopefully!

[KatieRae]

oh boy....

the poop behind the door reminds me of my mini schnauzer... when he was mad at me... he would do that behind the door and I could almost hear him laughing when I opened it and smeared it across the floor...

sorry.... puppies will be puppies...

do you have a hallway you can block him off in while you are gone with tile... maybe the kitchen with tile (baby latch the cupboards)

good luck... he will grow out of that soon... hopefully!

Yeah.. Hopefully..

Haha I can't believe he chose THERE of all places.. Come to think of it, I think I might have heard him laughing as I opened the door..

I WISH I had a tiled hallway or something.. my kitchen is too dangerous for me to leave him in.. I'm afraid he might get stuck in the gaps beside the fridge, or some other nonsense.. I think he's just gonna have to learn to love his crate, and I'm just gonna have to suck it up when I come home from work and have to clean it all up.

Oh well. Puppyism. No one ever said it would be easy.

[pfrantz77]

Oh no!!! My heart breaks for you.


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[Angel7292]

It could have been worse. Want me to make you feel better?

This post reminded me of something my aunt recently told me. My cousin in AU saw my upgraded Roomba on FB and decided to get one. It arrived and they really liked it. They put it in the master bedroom one day to clean and they ran out for a few hours to run errands.

(sorry, it makes me laugh just thinking about it)

Poor older large dog in the master bedroom was so scared of the Roomba, it took a big poop on the carpet. Roomba spent the cleaning cycle pushing the poop around the room... EVERYWHERE. Under the bed, the dresser and every square inch it cleaned in a robotic way. Smeared it from end to the other for at least 2 HOURS.

I feel terrible it happened to them, but ... just the thought of it makes me chuckle.

See... it could have been worse!


Seriously though, put the pup in a crate. It was just poop this time, but leaving a youngin' out like that can be very dangerous. DOL has had a whole variety of pups that chewed stuff, swallowed it and had an obstruction. Chewing electrical cords, etc. For his safety and your sanity... crate train. Most dogs find pooping in their crate undesirable and it makes potty training a lot easier too.

[michlhw]

i agree, if you have an extra bedroom that would be safer than letting the dog have full roam of your house. too many dangerous (and expensive!) things for him to chew on! wait til he's more mature to handle the responsibility.

[SharonAPRN]

Yikes! I'm lucky that my dane hasn't messed with anything (other than he occasionally likes to take the pillows and shawls and put them in a pile when we're gone) BUT my naughty boston terrier mix can NOT be left uncrated. I learned my lesson when I "thought" he had been ok for months left out and came home from a company christmas party. It looked like a bomb had gone off in the house. I had boxes from Amazon with most of my shopping done (I thought out of reach on the table) which were now shredded and all the presents for my girls, neices, nephew strewn everywhere. Wii games, books, playsets, pajamas...chewed up and destroyed. Never. Again!

Oh and also the time when I was a newbie dane owner and thought my previous blue pup would LOVE all the leftover potroast, right? He sure did. Came home to Dane Diarrhea everywhere. And we were showing the house the next day to move...aaaand I was pregnant. Good times.

[KatieRae]

Haha thanks for the stories! Makes me feel a bit better. It's just frustrating because he just has this terrible habit of pooping in his crate, then flinging it everywhere! I think he might be doing it just to spite me, which was why I tried letting him out in the apartment. I gated his space off, and limited him to only that area, and he did great the first day or two.. Then this.. Haha


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[themamabeth]

So I'm picturing a tent over the crate...Make a frame out of PVC pipe that is just a few inches bigger than the crate on each side and the front/back, and cover that with a painter's tarp-the really thin plastic ones. Then if he does poop and fling, you can just toss it. And it will be lifted far enough off of the crate that he can't pull it through like he would if you just laid it over the crate.

It won't eliminate having to bathe him all of the time, but at least you won't have to scrape poop off the ceiling.

What a frustrating problem! I hope he outgrows it soon.

[KatieRae]

So I'm picturing a tent over the crate...Make a frame out of PVC pipe that is just a few inches bigger than the crate on each side and the front/back, and cover that with a painter's tarp-the really thin plastic ones. Then if he does poop and fling, you can just toss it. And it will be lifted far enough off of the crate that he can't pull it through like he would if you just laid it over the crate.

It won't eliminate having to bathe him all of the time, but at least you won't have to scrape poop off the ceiling.

What a frustrating problem! I hope he outgrows it soon.

I'm honestly considering it. For now, I just covered it with a fitted sheet. He hasn't tried to pull it through (yet), but I'm definitely going to have to figure something like what you said out.


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[Angel7292]

How long is he being crated at a time?

[KatieRae]

Words.. Have Escaped Me..

How long is he being crated at a time?

Maybe 3 1/2 hours twice a week? 4 at the absolute most. But even when it's for 20 minutes he does it!



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[Gr8tDaneluv]

I am at a loss of words for you. I just showed my baby the pictures and told her that is a no-no. I know she doesn't understand a thing! But it made me feel better. I hope your baby grows out of this puppy phase quickly. Good Luck!