My puppy keeps crapping on my carpet!!

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HornGal01

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Actually I have 2 puppies....As soon as I think they are starting to show potential of being housebroken, they go and take a huge dump on my nice rugs. What should I do?
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I'm thinking of taking them to a potty training class at Petsmart.
 
Gentle scolding, put them outside, use the enzyme stuff on the spots so the scent does not remain.
The more you can keep them outside when young, the quicker they will learn to go outside. If you can't keep them outside, you have to frequently take them out, and praise them if a good result happens.
Once they get accustomed to going inside, they see that as the place to go, and it takes much longer to break them of the habit.
 
Scold them. Then run them outside. If you can catch them while doing it and scare them into stopping you can haul them out to the grass and theyll start going again where you can praise them. We had our dogs trained to ring a bell on the back door every time they wanted to go out.
 
Quite simply, you should take them out more often. Pooping outside should be fairly easy to teach as the food runs right throught their little system. Take a puppy outside right after it eats or drinks water, praise it when it takes care of business. Be careful scolding the pup if you don't catch them in/near the act as they may not be able to connect the scolding with the pooping; however if the act was fairly recent a stern "No" is sufficient while taking them outside. Never, ever rub their nose in the mess. Make sure you get some kind of scent nuetralizer to eliminate any odor in the carpet/rugs or the puppy is likely to go there again.
 
We have the back door bell thing as well - our puppy is half lab, so she learned it pretty well. We got her at 6 weeks and within a month she was ringing the bell to go outside. The trick is to push their nose into the bell so it audibly rings before putting them outside each time to use the restroom.
 
What kind of dogs are they? House breaking small dogs should be done differently than with big dogs.

First and formost, don't let the puppies out of your sight for even a few seconds until they are completely house broken. This may mean barracading them in the room where you are or following them around all the time, but it's worth it not to have to clean up poo.

When they do go outside, make sure and praise them excessively, especially while they're actually going so that they know what they're being praised for. Also, make sure and repeat over and over again what they're doing, like "good dog, go pee pee, good dog, go pee pee...." That way they learn to know what poo and pee are.

Notice where they go inside-- our dog used to sneak behind the dining room table so that we couldn't see her, so we started blocking off that area, and we would know to take her outside when she would go over there and start investigating how to get back there.

Take puppies outside any time they approach the door or start sniffing the ground. Then they learn to go to the door when they need to go out. It's annoying as hell, b/c I guarrentee they'll head to that door 50 times during the premier of the OC tonight, but hey, that's part of training a puppy.

One day, all of a sudden, they'll be potty trained.

Don't spend a bunch of money on fancy cleaners until they're actually house broken, since they tend to go to the same place to pee. Once they're house broken, buy the emzyme cleaners and go over all of the rugs with a blacklight so that you don't miss any spots. You may need to apply the emzyme cleaner more than once to completely eliminate all traces of accidents, and thus the old dog pee smell associated with them.

Good luck with your puppies!!
 
1st of all you made a mistake by getting 2 dogs at once, but there isn't much that can be done about that now.
You need to let the dogs out more often and you need to watch them closer. If you aren't crate training them, then I HIGHLY recommend that you do so. For the 1st couple of months of the dog's life it either needs to be within your eyesight, in the crate, or outside. If you can't watch the dog then it needs to be in the crate. This may sound cruel, but it really isn't. A properly crate trained dog will love its crate. It will become its private den.
 
Everyone on here pretty much has the same idea. When my lab was a pup, I had to take him out quite frequently. When he would do anything outside I would give him a piece of a hotdog as a reward. If he would do anything inside, I would scold him if I could find him. (Usually under the bed, because he knew he messed up). If you catch them in the act, take them outside immediately...then reward them when they finish.
 
Try crate training them.. When you are gone, put them in a crate, and they will not use the bathroom in the crate becuase of their den instinct. They will learn how to hold it, and get into a routine. Only let them out when they will be supervised the entire time. You'll not only housebreak them faster, you'll have better behaved dogs.
 
Small dogs see their environment as much larger than a bigger dog would, which is why it's harder to housebreak them. I've heard that you have to block off parts of the house, and as they learn not to go potty in that area, enlarge it a bit. Start, say, in the kitchen b/c they usually don't have carpet, and block the dogs in using boxes, etc. You'll have to keep an eye on them so that when they go you can interupt them. As they learn not to go, move the boxes out by like a foot each day or every other day, still keeping the same close monitoring on them.

Eventually, the whole house will be engulfed, and there won't be any issues. if the dog shows signs of regression ,shrink the area it's allowed in back down to a smaller size, and then build up.

Does that make any sense?
 
crate train them, be very disciplined about it, do it for 8-12 weeks, and unless the dog has other issues it will be perfectly housebroken.
 
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