Pooping in Crate
Just recently Guinness starting pooping in his crate and hiding it under his blanket(just a piece of fleece, the breeder sent him with)
He only does it at night, not during the day. If i remove the blanket it doesn't happen!
Why is he doing this?
We take him out twice before we go to bed! He doesn't cry to go out at night.
He's crated at night and during they day while we are at work. But like i said he only does it at night when he has the blanket.
Is there anything i can do to stop him, i don't want to keep his blanket away from him, because all he will have is the plastic crate bottom and a nylabone to chew on....and i feel bad because he doesn't have anything soft to lay on.
He only does it at night, not during the day. If i remove the blanket it doesn't happen!
Why is he doing this?
We take him out twice before we go to bed! He doesn't cry to go out at night.
He's crated at night and during they day while we are at work. But like i said he only does it at night when he has the blanket.
Is there anything i can do to stop him, i don't want to keep his blanket away from him, because all he will have is the plastic crate bottom and a nylabone to chew on....and i feel bad because he doesn't have anything soft to lay on.
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Or maybe he is just requesting a new blanket...
He's probably smelling something on the blanket to make defecate. ~
Its odd to me that he has had the blanket since he came home with me, which was almost 4 months ago, and this just started a week ago, and only at night!
Having no blanket bothers you more than your dog. In the beginning it was driving my wife crazy that our Koji didn't have something soft to sleep on. So as soon as we hit that 5 month mark, she made me get a pad for his crate. All he did was treat it as a toy, and chew on it. So we pulled it out and waited another month. Guess what? Same reaction. So we pulled it out again. I think he was about 7-8 months before we were able to let him sleep on it. In all that time, he never once told me he needed a soft blanket or pad to sleep on. ; )
What about a foam pad instead of a blanket-something he couldn't wad up and hide poos under? I guess that's better than him eating the evidence. What about letting him have an expen with his crate so he could have an area outside the crate to go if he had to overnight-maybe that would allow you to hear him moving around a little better? Reduce the interior size of his crate a little for overnight-restart crate training?
He is very vocal so if he wanted to go out he knows he can vocalize that at night, he has done before!!!
He also tried eating the pad i used to have for him, so i removed till he he's older, he doesn't eat his blanket, he does however chew on it like a baby would.
I'm not really worried there is a problem i was more wondering why all of a sudden this has started!!!
Jesse