So, I am a new Frenchie owner. I work at an animal hospital and a breeder acquired her from Hungary and then chose not to breed her because of a luxating patella. So she graciously gifted her to me. I'm not sure what the crate or training situation was there, but she is absolutely not potty trained at 10 months old.
I've tried feeding her in the crate so she might think not to soil it, throwing treats into the crate to make it seem like a "nice" place, bathroom breaks every hour or so, tethering her to me so she can't do anything I don't know about on my days off, and praise/treats every time she goes outside...and nothing is seeming to work. She seems to have no problem laying in her own poop.
For example, this morning before I left for work I walked her outside for a good 20-25 minutes. She didn't want to do anything except for pee. Since I had to leave for work, I put her in her crate and left. I left at 7 am, my aunt woke up at 8:30 to take her out and she had already pooped in her cage and walked around in it/smeared it everywhere. So my aunt let her out, and stayed out in the backyard with her for 30-40 minutes. She wandered around, but only peed. As soon as my Aunt let her in the house, she started trying to poop on the floor. She clapped her hands and yelled "no!" And took her back outside. She wandered around for a bit more and did nothing outside. My aunt let her back in and she immediately ran up the stairs and pooped on the floor. [emoji30] Back in the crate she went. My aunt took her out again an hour later and she pooped again, thankfully this time outside. I'm switching her to a higher quality food in the hopes that maybe she will poop less, because to me that just seems excessive. She's only eating 1 cup of dry food a day. Otherwise I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.
She seemed to do a little better when we just baby gated a small area off for her to have some walking around room. However, our baseboards are tall, so securing the baby gate firmly to the wall, instead of against the baseboards, left enough room underneath for her to wiggle out. And if we put the baby gate against the baseboards, its nice and snug on the bottom and incredibly unstable on the top (because of how far the baseboards stick out from the wall). She quickly figured out that she could jump on it and push it down to escape.
So I guess what I'm asking is...do you guys have any advice for this potty/crate training issue? And any recommendations for baby gates that account for baseboards? So she can't just ramrod it down. Thanks!
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I've tried feeding her in the crate so she might think not to soil it, throwing treats into the crate to make it seem like a "nice" place, bathroom breaks every hour or so, tethering her to me so she can't do anything I don't know about on my days off, and praise/treats every time she goes outside...and nothing is seeming to work. She seems to have no problem laying in her own poop.
For example, this morning before I left for work I walked her outside for a good 20-25 minutes. She didn't want to do anything except for pee. Since I had to leave for work, I put her in her crate and left. I left at 7 am, my aunt woke up at 8:30 to take her out and she had already pooped in her cage and walked around in it/smeared it everywhere. So my aunt let her out, and stayed out in the backyard with her for 30-40 minutes. She wandered around, but only peed. As soon as my Aunt let her in the house, she started trying to poop on the floor. She clapped her hands and yelled "no!" And took her back outside. She wandered around for a bit more and did nothing outside. My aunt let her back in and she immediately ran up the stairs and pooped on the floor. [emoji30] Back in the crate she went. My aunt took her out again an hour later and she pooped again, thankfully this time outside. I'm switching her to a higher quality food in the hopes that maybe she will poop less, because to me that just seems excessive. She's only eating 1 cup of dry food a day. Otherwise I just don't know what I'm doing wrong.
She seemed to do a little better when we just baby gated a small area off for her to have some walking around room. However, our baseboards are tall, so securing the baby gate firmly to the wall, instead of against the baseboards, left enough room underneath for her to wiggle out. And if we put the baby gate against the baseboards, its nice and snug on the bottom and incredibly unstable on the top (because of how far the baseboards stick out from the wall). She quickly figured out that she could jump on it and push it down to escape.
So I guess what I'm asking is...do you guys have any advice for this potty/crate training issue? And any recommendations for baby gates that account for baseboards? So she can't just ramrod it down. Thanks!
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