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i have a 10 week old puppy chihuahua bitch which im trying to toilet train to go outside on the grass, when i put her on grass some of the time she'll wee but more than often she'll wee and poo all around the house or sometimes she'll use her wee pad. Is she putting her scent down? As i already have a male neutered 1 year old maltese dog. How can i stop this weeing around the house? Can u explain why she is doing this please?

Submitted: 263 days and 14 hours ago.
Category: Dog
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She is too young to be given the run of the house as she sees no difference between the floors and the outdoors.

She is pretty young to be scent marking its more likely she has no idea she should wait to go outside to potty.

This site goes over housebreaking well

http://www.inch.com/~dogs/housebreaking.html

And this one talks about teaching a pup how to ring a bell to say they need to go out

http://www.paw-rescue.org/PAW/PETTIPS/DogTip_TeachingToRingYou.php

For now you should clean up all areas where there have been accidents with an enzyme based cleaner such as Nature's Miracle, confine the pup to a smaller space rather than the whole house, or leash her to you so you can see if she needs to go and rush her outside, and put her on a schedule for trips out and meals etc.

In general a pup this age needs to go out when they wake up, 10-20 minutes after they eat or drink, after a hard play session and any time they 'look funny'.

Hope this helps you!

 

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Expert: NancyH
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Answered: 3/4/2009

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