Nagini
April 25th, 2010, 06:06 AM
Hi!
I have a 19 month old female presa canario thats developed a really bad habit recently.
Some background info to start with:
* she is house-trained (so much she can be, after reading this post...)
* she scratches on the door when she needs to go out, in the past she even asked sometimes to go out even during night time, and we have then taken her down quickly if she did
* she gets fed twice a day, she then poops twice a day too at regular times
* she is not allowed on the furniture in general, but during night time we have allow her on the couch to sleep
Very recently (past 1-2months) she poops on the living room floor at night time. So you can imagine I get up in the mornings with a cool banging headache! The problem is, she doesn't even ask to go out during night time, instead just poops on the same spot on the living room floor.
I have washed the floors with normal cleaning stuff and then on top of it with some specific stuff that takes the smell of pee/poop away, but I think she goes back to the same spot just because she knows its "the same spot I always do my things at". (Just like outside she prefers the same spots where she always poops and pees at.)
Some mornings when I see she's pooped again at night, I think to myself what could be a reason for it? Sometimes I realize that she only did 1 poop the previous day, and she always is used to making 2, so maybe thats why? Or other similar reasons.
But for example last night, everything was normal until evening. I took her for evening walk, she didnt do her regular No. 2 there. So after we came back up, she ate her food, and after that she asked to go out FOUR TIMES IN A ROW!!!
Heres what I did after each time she asked to go out (I always wait about 10min with her outside, after that I come back up again, cant spend all evening waiting for her outside...):
After 1st time I took her down immediately, she must need to poop now I thought to myself. I waited outside with her 10min, she didnt do anything, I came back up.
After the 2nd time I took her down, NOW she must need to go down for a poop! And she did poop, but no pee.
After the 3rd time Nothing happened outside, I came up again.
After the 4th time She peed, I came back up again.
And then I woke up in the morning with a brownie on the floor. :)
Do you have any suggestions to help me improve this situation? Its pretty annoying... :D
I have a 19 month old female presa canario thats developed a really bad habit recently.
Some background info to start with:
* she is house-trained (so much she can be, after reading this post...)
* she scratches on the door when she needs to go out, in the past she even asked sometimes to go out even during night time, and we have then taken her down quickly if she did
* she gets fed twice a day, she then poops twice a day too at regular times
* she is not allowed on the furniture in general, but during night time we have allow her on the couch to sleep
Very recently (past 1-2months) she poops on the living room floor at night time. So you can imagine I get up in the mornings with a cool banging headache! The problem is, she doesn't even ask to go out during night time, instead just poops on the same spot on the living room floor.
I have washed the floors with normal cleaning stuff and then on top of it with some specific stuff that takes the smell of pee/poop away, but I think she goes back to the same spot just because she knows its "the same spot I always do my things at". (Just like outside she prefers the same spots where she always poops and pees at.)
Some mornings when I see she's pooped again at night, I think to myself what could be a reason for it? Sometimes I realize that she only did 1 poop the previous day, and she always is used to making 2, so maybe thats why? Or other similar reasons.
But for example last night, everything was normal until evening. I took her for evening walk, she didnt do her regular No. 2 there. So after we came back up, she ate her food, and after that she asked to go out FOUR TIMES IN A ROW!!!
Heres what I did after each time she asked to go out (I always wait about 10min with her outside, after that I come back up again, cant spend all evening waiting for her outside...):
After 1st time I took her down immediately, she must need to poop now I thought to myself. I waited outside with her 10min, she didnt do anything, I came back up.
After the 2nd time I took her down, NOW she must need to go down for a poop! And she did poop, but no pee.
After the 3rd time Nothing happened outside, I came up again.
After the 4th time She peed, I came back up again.
And then I woke up in the morning with a brownie on the floor. :)
Do you have any suggestions to help me improve this situation? Its pretty annoying... :D