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Puppy potty and attitude! Recommendations??? :-D

Abby&Fiona

Well-Known Member
Seriously, Fiona has recently started peeing inside A LOT! She will pee 30 min after being taken out and successfully doing her business outside! She pees and poops on command with no problem. But all of a sudden she thinks it's entertaining to pee inside right in front of us! She also has been getting sassier with her barks and yipping at us when we say no. AGHT AGHT works better with her in catching her about to put her mouth on something or do something sneaky, she usually changes her actions. She is still mouthing and is at most times doing better with it, we can snuggle her and pet her without being bit at but sometimes she just has to have her mouth on us. We have tried (for multiple weeks) no mouth while holding her muzzle. She though that was just ODD PLAY, so that didn't work. We have, and continue to ignore and walk away to give her a break. She doesn't seem to care haha, she just goes to a toy and then run amuck. haha She is getting outside time, walks, adventures and car rides regularly. She is crate trained and doing well with that. She is in her crate at night, out for a bit in the AM and then only in her crate till early afternoon. During the summer I will be home ALL DAY everyday so she will get even more free time and I will have every chance to be consistent with her.

But seriously, in the last 2 hours she has peed outside twice and inside 4 times! Is she just being a pain? She was going DAYS without accidents and then it went to once a day accidents and sometimes none and today MORE!
We have had a sudden change in temp and she has experienced her bought of hotter weather, which effected her #2 yesterday. So I wonder if the weather is having something to do with her peeing issue as well.
As for the attitude, I know at 13 weeks she is going to get worse before she gets better since she is a puppy and she is going to test us big time. From your experiences is there anything you would definitely recommend or anything in particular that worked for you?
I am pretty patient but holy heck!!! HAHA
I love her dearly and am determined to shape a wonderful doggy out of this darling turd!
THANKS!


And because I know you guys like pictures :-D Here is the little turd!
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Cody

Well-Known Member
That seems excessive, the peeing. Maybe she has a bladder infection?
I hope you get it figured out soon.
 

Abby&Fiona

Well-Known Member
We thought maybe also, but she is back on an every three ish hours schedule.... So we will keep watching her. She has turned her attitude down a notch too. Maybe she was just cranky lol!!
 

VegasGirl

Active Member
I would just stay consistent with the schedule. With my own dogs they had periods where they did great with potty training and then short spans of time where they kind of backslid, so it could be perfectly normal. If she genuinely seems like she can't control it you'll probably have to see the vet in case she has an infection.