Astro's my never ending timtam packet of weeeeee.
When I picked him up a few weeks ago, he was paper trained (yay) but once I started outside toilet training, any time he did need to go inside, he just went randomly (number 1s and 2s) - on the tiles, on the bath mat where he likes to lay, on his bed! and to my horror he squat over his water bowl - I was not expecting that. I try to take him out ever 15minutes to half hour because he just goes so often.
His food and bed are now raised (on trampoline bed) and on a feeder though respectively, so he's stopped weeing there, I think - too much effort to climb up to wee/poo.
Should I just take the paper away for good?
One thing I'm concerned about is that recently, he's been pooping during the night on the tiles. I had been lazy with taking him out at night 2 weeks after I brought him home (bad Vicky, Bad bad) but I had Med exams and was functioning on 5 hours sleep as it was (excuses excuses, I know). I took him out 1am and at 6:30 when we wake up, but he likes his 3am dump.
I was wondering, now given that he's 11 weeks, but already has the poop-anywhere-in-the-house-at-night mentally reinforced - how long it is going to take me?
My guess is that he still doesn't know that inside = home, outside = toilet.
And I'm reluctant to crate train given that he likes to deficate the places where he lays. I thought they didn't like to go where they slept or ate
Any experiences or advice appreciated muchly.
