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    Jan 20, 2010, 02:51 AM
    Keeps pooping in crate
    I have an English Bulldog that is 14 months old. My wife works days and I work nights so she takes her out before she goes to bed at 10pm. I get home at 2am and take her out again and then she gets up at 5am to get ready for work and takes her out. I get up at 11am and take her out again and before I leave for work again at 2pm. She gets home at 6pm and takes her out again.
    She feeds her when she gets up, I feed her when I get up, and then she feeds her again when she gets off work and we always take her out 30 minutes after she eats. Then she doesn't get water after 7-8pm.
    The vet told us she needs a special digestive food so we get her that and she has a wire crate with a divider that to make the area smaller since I have read that they won't poop in their cage like that.
    We make sure she has pooped before putting her back in the crate.
    She poops during the times my wife goes to bed to when I get home and when my wife leaves to when I get up. Yes I know that sounds strange but I have asked my wife are you making sure she is actually out there pooping and not just eating snow.
    So she will still poop in the wire crate and it will either roll outside or she will just lay on it.
    I am trying to think what else I have tried.
    We have never hit her but when we notice the poop in the cage she knows she has done something wrong and gets low and starts to roll over.
    Please help! This is starting to get annoying.
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    Jan 20, 2010, 03:11 AM

    Perhaps try feeding her in her crate.
    Reducing their space usually works as you have done but feeding works well too.
    Dogs will rarely poop where they eat and sleep so it's worth trying, I personally haven't needed to do it but I know a few people who have had success with it.
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    Jan 20, 2010, 07:25 AM

    Is the vet okay with three feedings daily? You might consider reducing the frequency. The pup may simply be too full not to.
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    Jan 20, 2010, 11:35 AM

    Yes the vet is okay with the three feedings. It is the same amount of food but even out throughout the day at about the same time we eat.
    The vet gave the same advice to my parents three dogs and it works for them. When/how much do you guys feed your dogs?
    I will have to try the feeding in the cage after I wash the pillow in there again to try to dissolve the scent of it.
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    Jan 20, 2010, 01:25 PM

    When you guys take her out do you make sure she eliminates as well as urinating? That's the tried and true method of housebreaking, rather than having/allowing her to submit and "apologise" after.

    I'm a big advocate of lavish attention when they do well and instruction rather than anger when they do wrong.
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    Jan 21, 2010, 02:27 AM

    Not quite sure what you mean by elimnates? But when she does use poop outside we give her a treat to let her know she is doing a good job and praise her. You don't even have to say anything for when she poops in the cage, when we come around the corner she starts doing her act that she knows that she did something wrong. I take her outside with the poop and place it in her normal place she goes to help train her it goes outside. Then I stand back as she goes. It is weird that when I hide the paper towel I picked it up with behind my back, then she run up all excited aftergoing but when I take it out in the open she cowrys from the waded up paper towel when I go throw it away, like she knows what that is and she did bad.
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    Jan 21, 2010, 03:30 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by dewwars View Post
    Not quite sure what you mean by elimnates? But when she does use poop outside we give her a treat to let her know she is doing a good job and praise her. You don't even have to say anything for when she poops in the cage, when we come around the corner she starts doing her act that she knows that she did something wrong. I take her outside with the poop and place it in her normal place she goes to help train her it goes outside. Then I stand back as she goes. It is weird that when I hide the paper towel I picked it up with behind my back, then she run up all excited aftergoing but when I take it out in the open she cowrys from the waded up paper towel when I go throw it away, like she knows what that is and she did bad.
    "Eliminate" is another way of saying "poop." It sounds like what you need is patience. You seem to be doing everything right, she just needs to make the connection between outside equals good. She knows inside is bad. Have you started obedience classes yet?
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