[suez]

Hi My 6mo old cockapoo who is very , hypa will not poop outside.We could be out for 2 hours, and 5 minutes after we come in he poops in the house.He just started to pee out side in the last month, and lets us know when he has to go out to pee,but not poop.We have saved poops and brought them outside and he smells it but nothing.Please help before we lose our minds... Thank-You sue

[RichardBondMan]

Try to notice when he tends to poop inside, i.e. right after he eats, etc, then if this is the case, take him / her outside right after he / she eats.

[labman]

Are you enthusiastically praising him for peeing outside? Wait until you have a large block of time. Then take him out and keep him moving. Walk, play fetch, whatever, keep him moving except if he seems to want to stop and sniff around. At 6 months, you can risk letting him snoop around places other dogs use. Exercise stimulates the body. He can't hold it forever. If he can no longer deny nature, and he has a bowel movement, praise him. Rave about what a good dog he is. Give him a treat.

Also, watch him carefully inside. It seems some of them can squat and pee in mid stride, but a bowel movement requires sniffing and maybe running in circles. Rush him out and again keep him moving unless he stops to sniff. If he starts to run in tight circles, let him. Again the praise and the treat.

Use gates and closed doors to keep him where you can see him. When you can't watch him, crate him. The dog may be
Happier in its den than loose in the house. It relaxes, it feels safe in its
Den. It rests, the body slows down reducing the need for water and relieving
Its self. Dogs that have been crated all along do very well. Many of them
Will rest in their crates even when the door is open. I think the plastic
Ones give the dog more of a safe, enclosed den feeling. Metal ones can be put
In a corner or covered with something the dog can't pull in and chew. Select
A crate just big enough for the full grown dog to stretch out in.

Leave it some toys. Perhaps a Kong filled with peanut butter. Don't leave
Anything in the crate the dog might chew up. It will do fine without even any
Bedding. You will come home to a safe dog and a house you can enjoy.

A dog that has not been crated since it was little, may take some work.
Start just putting its toys and treats in the crate. Praise it for going
in. Feed it in the crate. This is also an easy way to maintain order at
Feeding time for more than one dog.

The "shut the puppy in a safe room" is a fallacy. Very few houses even have a
Safe room. How many of us have a room with a hard surfaced floor and nothing
Else? Most rooms have electrical cords to chew if nothing else. In addition
To destroying anything a bored puppy finds to chew, it may choke or have
Intestinal blockage from the pieces. I had a friend that left her dog in a
"safe" room. It ate a hole in the floor covering. The safe rooms fail to
Give the dog the comfort of the enclosed space their instinct requires. Nor
Do they restrict activity extending the time the dog can go without relieving
Itself.

Likely it will cry the first few nights in the crate. I have never had much
Luck with the old clock or radio tricks. What I do is lay down by the crate
Like I was going to sleep there. Usually a puppy may fuss a little, but then
Settle down and go to sleep. Once it is asleep, you can get up and go to bed.

Many people strongly strongly push cleaning up all evidence of past accidents. I am slower to suggest that. Dogs will return to the same spot if they can find it. When you see one sniffing the spot, that is your clue to run it out.

[doggie_poopie]

The best thing to do in this case is take puppy out and when he is done place him back into crate for 5 minutes or so, then take him back out. He does doesn't understand what it is you want of him. Keep trying and use the crate. If after the 5 min he doesn't go put him back into the crate for 10 min, then try again. This will have to be repeated sometimes each morning or evening.
Good Luck