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    4 month old lab pooping in house

    Potty training as gone really well until we allowed Jackson to go to the downstairs family room. Typically he has been confined to the kitchen/laundry room area and has had no accidents for about 2 weeks now. When we let him go with us downstairs he poops. Not every time but twice now this week. This usually occurs in the evenings. All our other labs were completly house broken by this age. A little frustrated. Any suggestions?

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    Does he do it when someone is with him, or does he sneak down to the family room? If he is sneaking down alone I would think he is claiming territory, are you sure he is not tinkling too?

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    So you are right there, with him? Were there any changes? Food? New excitement downstairs, maybe a visitor? The odd mistake till about one year old is not unusual, but "odd" being key. REadings say they don't have complete control of pooping and peeing, muscular control, till about 6 moths for some. Thorough cleaning downstairs with enzyme cleaner so it doesn't smell like he's supposed to go down there? Maybe there is old pee or poop smell there from a previous dog?
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    Some dogs are not as "smart" as others. Don't be so hard on him. Try to get him out a few extra times while you are downstairs so he has a chance to relieve himself outside with success. I find my 10 month old griff potties in the house by the back door if I am too engrossed in a TV show and too lazy to get up.

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    No, my husband was down there just didn't see him sniffing around. Nope no tinkling!

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    Thank you! I will try that.

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    Our Jake never peed or pooped on the downstairs carpet so that's not the issue. What may have happened, as I'm thinking about it more, is I should have taken him for a bit of a walk knowing he didn't poop after dinner. So maybe part of the problem is us? He just rarely gives signals that he needs to go out! Our other dogs always barked. He is quiet guy! Really good and smart. Honestly, this issue along with greeting everyone with a stream of pee is our only issues! Thanks for input!

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    Sounds like you may have figured out the problem with Jackson. I've had puppies whose signals that they have to go seem to be either so subtle and I'm too preoccupied to notice them or they haven't figured out that if they'd just give me the signal, we'd be out the door within moments. One of mine would sit by the back door but if I wasn't in the kitchen or the wait was too long, they'd just go right there by the door.

    It can be frustrating when you know they surely have to go, pee or poop, and they don't. And it's really annoying when it's raining outside! I've said to my husband that I wish sometimes that I could just squeeze them like a tube of toothpaste to hurry the process along. If mine don't poop when I'm thinking they should have, I either spend more time outside in one trip or make more frequent short trips until the job is done- anything I can do to reinforce that outside is the place to go.

    Good luck- good thing they're so cute, huh?

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    Diggity was 100% housebroken in the three rooms upstairs where he had access. But, once I started taking him into the finished basement, he had a few pee accidents (right in front of me in the middle of playing) and it was because he didn’t understand that the door down there led to the same back yard where he was supposed to go out to pee. It took numerous trips over to the door (where I also had a bell hung for him to ring) to teach him where he needed to go out. He learned it in a few weeks.


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    I honestly don't remember what any of my previous dogs did to signal a need to go out, if anything.

    Sunnie doesn't signal. Ever. She's a camel...just holds everything (sometimes even on a walk if she thinks the walk is too short).

    Dan stares. Unfortunately, this usually means he wants something (like the chair I'm presently sitting in or some food/etc. item that's coming up on schedule). Once in a while, he'll actually agree to go outside with me and eliminate. But he's a little guy...we automatically take him out on schedule, just as we did when he was a puppy (10 years ago).

 



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