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My boxer is 11 weeks old and was toilet trained no accidents from the 2nd week we had him. Now for the last week he is acting strange. He used to be calm at night, now he carries on, he is weeing inside ALOT. He is even weeing when walking . Im not sure if he was busting because he was walking to the back door. I know he is teething, he is chewing his bone away. But i dont understand this relapse in toilet training, and the carrying on he is doing. He runs around silly. I have tried taking him for a walk but it doesnt help. He gets plenty of exercise in the day too. Im hoping it kind of the terrible 2s or something. He is kind of defying me when i tell him to do something. He wont eat his dinner, he is feed Royal Canine, i add something from what ever i cook for dinner. i.e mashed potato, pasta gravy. It worked at 1st now he still isnt interested. He isnt sick, its just like he turnshis nose upto it. Is this just a puppy phase?

My point exactly, i am actually a bit surprised. I expected to get slammed for not adopting my pup from a rescue or pound.

I dont want to start an argument but who do you think you are? I did not have 100% intention to buy my pup from a breeder, i dont see anything wrong with a "backyard breeder" as ou called it. I was not IMPATIENT , i just didnt see the big deal in waiting for a breeder when their is nothing wrong with buying one from anywhere. The pup was vaccinated, wormed, and micro chipped. He is in good health as i am now aware it was his food i was feeding him that was his problem. From personal experience my aunt bought her 1st boxer from a breeder. It died a week later. My uncle has bought all his boxers from breeders. He has had 5 in the last 23 yrs ive been around. They all died. Not saying that its BECAUSE they were from breeders, but whats makes breeders different? And i do not agree with buying a pup from interstate. I was always told don't pick the pup let the pup pick you. How do i know ill get a pup with a personality i like from just looking at pictures? I actually went to see the litter i got my pup from 3 times before i decided to get him. Each time he was the one to come to me, sit next to me and not chew my hand when patted like the rest of his brothers and sisters. I had originally wanted a girl. But he won my heart. I had also looked at 2 other litters.

I am too just toilet training our new 9 week old Boxer. He to has his dinner at 6pm he always goes to sleep after that about 8-830 he will wake, poo play and then sook until bedtime at 1130-12pm. I stay up to wait for hubby to get home from work. He isnt a fan of staying up that late, last night i let him on my bed at 10pm because he was sooking and he fell asleep. He sleeps all night, but we wake at 7am so maybe its not really that long. If he does wake because he is on my bed i wake to him stirring and take him out. We have had accidents during the day but never at night.

Name: BANJO Sex: Male Nickname: BANJU - MY DAUGHTER IS 20MNTHS AND SAYS HIS NAME LIKE THIS Breed: BOXER Age: 9 WEEKS Loves: BALLS, SLEEP, SITTING ON ME, AND OUR BED. Hates: MY DAUGHTERS WIGGLES WHEELBARROW THAT PLAYS MUSIC, HE RUNS AWAY AND BARKS AT IT

K i think i did it..... Thanks persephon

I DONT KNOW HOW TO ADD PHOTOS..... Sorry.

He is having 3 meals a day, im just making them small at the moment so his belly gets used to it, i dont want him scoffing it all and pooing water again :D Good idea, i didnt know what to do with it. Hopefully it wont upset their bellies though His dinner is at 6pm, we dont go to bed until after 1130pm as hubby isnt home from work till then. So he is up with me , not that he is actually awake much though. He tries to lure me to bed early by sitting at my bedroom door looking at me He sleeps in our bed, it works for us because he whinges to get down if he needs to go toilet which wakes me up so we havent had accidents yet. Although he has slept through the last 3 nights :D He is meant to sleep on the foot of the bed but somehow wiggles himself up until he is next to me or between hubby and me. OH WELL.

UPDATE: Banjo is loving the Royal Canine, he eats and looks for more. I am not giving in just yet, he had a little more than last night but im taking it slow so he gets used to it. He has breakfast a small handful of Royal Canine, then another small handful for lunch and an another plus a bit of rice for dinner, although he is picking around the rice. Today has been 1 soft but not runny poo and 1 solid normal poo Much better then the 5-6 sloppy ones he was doing before. And i have ONE more question: We put advocate on him on Monday and i still find a flea or 2 on him, they are tiny tiny though. Is that normal or should he have none at all? Also is he ok to bath with the advocate on? When i had him on the excelpet it said water can stop it from working The toilet training is going great, he still has an accident if im pre occupied with the kids, but not very often. Once the girls are in bed he has his dinner and i leave our french doors open so he can help himself. He is doing well with that so far. Thank you all so much for all your advice, i am very thankful. :D :D

I didnt stop him from having dinner because he hadnt eaten anything since last night, she said to fast him to kill the bug. He doesnt and didnt have a bug, i took the advice of other here stating it could be the Bonnie as it has given their dogs runny poo and alot of them. I could tell he wasnt sick, he was and is active and happy. If he had a bug he would have the runs all the time, not solid then runny and be able to hold it all night. Ok, so now i know i will get my husband to give him lunch, and if he seems hungry when i get home maybe more then as dinner isnt till after 6pm, once my kids are in bed so i can watch him with out distraction to get him to go toilet outside. :rolleyes:

UPDATE: He just had a small small handful of rice and a smaller handful of Royal Canine. He hasnt had any Bonnie all day. As soon as he was finished eating he pood. He does that EVERYNIGHT. Always as soon as his done he wants to poo. Anyway it was a solid poo. The most solid ive seen him do. Now i have no idea what it is, if its because he didnt have any bonnie, because he didnt graze all day, or because he had the royal canine :rolleyes: Although i dont think he digests that quick and can poo out what he had just eaten Anyway im going to keep him on the Royal Canine, Only give him breakfast and dinner. No more grazing. And see how he goes. Thank you soooo much for your advise i had no idea about any of it Hubby is a bit cranky that we paid $700 for Banjo a week ago and $40 on a wasted bag of Bonnie, $150 on a vet bill today and another $40 on a small bag of royal canine today. Which i am going to need to get him a big bag in a week or 2 which i $100. :p So, so far this gorgeous well worth it pup has cost us over $900 in a week. WHO CARES! I love him and i know hubby does too :p

OK so i just went out and bought a small bag of Royal Canine to test, i am going to givve him a tiny handle full for dinner tonight and thats it, he hasnt had any bonnie all day and hasnt had a loose poo since this morning. The royal canine say Prebiotics & Psyllium , actiflora. Hope this works. I really feel that he isnt sick , as i am typing he is having play time running around with his toys.

OK, So i took him to the vet. She looked him over and said it can be many things causing the upset stomach, the change food, change of enviroment or a bug. She asked if he is vomitting, he isnt. We explained he had been in the car for awhile while we drove to the vet so he had a dry nose which is usually wet. She said he has loose skin and a dry nose so he is dehydrated. I thought he is a pup isnt it meant to be loose, and i know if it doesnt spring back and stay scrunch then they are dehydrated but his springs back straight away. So we have to keep him off the food for a day, water only with LECTADE in it. To rehydrate him. Watch how he goes. Then slowly give him the food, little bit at a time. If not she has a whole bunch of needles and AB to treat a bug :rolleyes: Thats what i was hoping, they are skinny in the back end when fully grown arnt they? Nope no fruit trees. Well when we 1st got him i wanted him to have a breakfast and dinner BUT when we would feed him he would have a nibble then go away and then come looking for it again for another nibble, so we were just leaving it there for him too munch all day We are just feeding him Bonnie puppy now. What will this do? Will it settle his stomach? EDITED TO ADD: Other than sleeping alot, he is happy and active when awake. He looks good, his coat is shiny he eyes are clear. If he had a bug would he be able to go through the night without pooping?

I am taking him to the vet this afternoon as soon as i get home from work, he is at home with my husband now. He was vaccinated but he his card says he doesnt need another till 4th Jan 09.

Really?? I thought Bonnie was one of the best ones What foods are the best?

Im sorry if you got the wrong idea, his poos are not always water. They will be softer then they should be, sometimes water and sometimes soft then watery in the same poo. His morning poo when we get up is always solid . He is still active, happy, eating and drinking. I think it may be because when i mix his old food with our new food, he eats around the old one and mainly eats the new. I went and bought him advocate this morning for all worms and fleas. We didnt buy him from a breeder, although we tried but none around our area were not even trying to have litters till next yr sometime. We bought him from a couple who had 2 pure bred boxers , there were 4 in our pups litter, he was the oldest and biggest. They also had 2 other pup from the previous litter that were about 2 i think. I have his papers for his needles and microchip and she told me she had wormed him. My partner said maybe they didnt use a good wormer, or maybe they did the pups and not all 4 adult dogs so it would made no difference. I dont think he is sick, he is too happy eating and drinking. I had a dog when i was a teenager that had hookworm and that was a very sick dog. I will never forget that for as long as i live. And he is nothing like what she was like at all. He has only been with us for a week now, so maybe his belly still needs adjusting to the food?? I have no idea why he picks around his old food.

My pup is a 9 week old boxer and from the day we got him he has had runny poo. We put it down to change of food, so i started mixing his old with our new to get him used to it slowly but its not difference. We are feeding him Bonnie Puppy food. I think he may need to be wormed but i was told he was already when i picked him up, can it hurt him if i do it again? Because he will eat but never looks like he gets a big belly, you can always see his ribs. The poo is sometimes a bit more soilid at first then turns to water :rolleyes: He is active when he is awake, he sleeps alot through the day and usually doesnt wake me to go toilet through the night, his last wee is at 1130pm before we go to bed and we get up at 7am. Although it seems through the night before bed he will wake and need to go poo atleast 5 times, between 7 and 1130. Always runny. Toilet training is going really really well he has started scratching at the door to go out to wee for the last 2 days NO ACCIDENTS. Also another 1, EXELPET flea control, i have bathed him and put it on him, he touched a cat and now has fleas again Do i just bath him in flea shampoo to kill them or do i need to do the exelpet again? Sorry i have so many questions, its our first pup and i want to make sure we do it right. EDITED TO ADD : HE just did a poo the poor bugger couldnt hold it, it come out like a hose, watery with black things in it ???? My husband is at work all night and i have no way to get him to a vet :@

NOOO i dont go mad on him when he wees or poos inside i just show it to him and say NO GO TOILET OUTSIDE and go outside with him, when i see him sniffing or just wakes up i say OUTSIDE and he will follow me then when we get out i say GO TOILET the few times he has i praised him but i think i may give the treats a go see if it helps get him going He is a clever boy , he already knows his name when called and when i say BED he goes to bed. My husband has him sitting 90 % if the time he commands and shakes too, but the shaking i think is just instinct :cool: We had a good night last night, he went wee outside at 1130pm before we went to bed and he slept solid until 7am, when i got up i took him outside and he went wee again. Soo i guess we are on the right track to have a night with out any accidents. He sleeps on the end of my bed

I have just gotten an 8 week old Boy Boxer, and we are trying to toilet train him, I take him out everytime he wakes from sleep, whenever i see him sniffing and a little while after i see him have a drink. Its been 2 days and there has been no improvment at all, i take him out and say "go toilet" everytime. He will whinge and sniff around the floor so i take him outside and say "go toilet" and he will sook and whinge at the door, then go off and play i cant leave him on his own he cries so i stay outside with him, it can be 1/2 hr and he still wont go until i let him inside I dont know how to do this right. Any suggestions please? and how long will it take before i will see improvement?