pooping on the furniture

[diamond applesauce]

why does my 4month old puppy poop on the furniture and my youngest son bed. she has never did this before. but more importantly how can i get her to stop and how can i get her to go in one designated place. will training pads work?

[brunie's mom]

No training pads will not help.
Why is a 4 month old puppy on the furniture?? Get her off of the furniture and into a crate when you cannot supervise her.

The best way to prevent unwanted behavior is not to allow it. Is she crate trained? How much supervision is she given??

Please read all of the stickies in the Puppy Development forum....it sounds like you are not watching this puppy enough and giving it far too much freedom.

Gina

[AngelBunny]

Why does your 4 month old puppy poop where you don't want her to poop?

Because you haven't housetrained her.

Here're links to articles on housetraining from my rescue group's site.

(Yes, we know some of the links don't work, but we can't fix them because we don't own the page.)

[OnyxGold1]

All training pads do is encourage puppy to go to the bathroom in the house.....they might work great for an incontinent 16 year old poodle X but are useless for a rott pup.....

Puppy is pooing on furniture because you're allowing it.....she isn't supervised appropriately and isn't house trained.

Take her outside every 2 hours or so and encourage her to potty outside and praise her and when she's indoors her world is limited to where she can be supervised......my pups initially have the KITCHEN as their world.....then get a room added at a time until I have full reliability.....and IF for some reason they regress.....their world immediately shrinks back to the kitchen and we start over again. By 6 months of age my youngsters have run of the house and I have no accidents.

If you can't watch her every second.....then crate her when you can't watch her....

Heather