Stop Puppy From Peeing Inside

[MissLotus]

Evening all,

I would like to know if I am doing the right thing...

When I am at work for roughly 9 hours a day, she is in her play pen area with access to outside for her toilet break. What I have notice is that each time I come home there will be dried pee puddle in her area. What I have done is, reduced her area so she is force to go outside. Right now, I'm at the last stage, where it will literally just be her bedding inside and then any play area she wants, she will have to go outside. Is this the correct method of getting to go and pee outside?

It's only been within the month that i've noticed pee inside. She has had her on and off moments.

When I am at home, she runs outside to go to the toilet, so I am not sure why she feels the need to pee in her area when I'm not home. She is crate trained, so in the middle of the night I will stand by her play pen area and she will make her way outside to pee.

I am cleaning her inside pee with some doggy odor remover.

So now I am thinking, is it because it is cold and wet outside that she is too lazy to go outside? I didn't have any issues training her brother to pee outside.

Any other method would be greatly appreciated.

[Her Majesty Dogmad]

Sorry but your post doesn't really make sense to me, does she have a doggy door? How does she get outside if she's in a playpen?

[all that glitters]

I definately noticed a drop in our toilet training process on rainy days Shyla would do a random pee inside instead of going out on the wet grass, and it was always when it was raining and gross outside.

Now that she is coming up to 6 months old she never does inside pees or poos anymore, and will take herself outside even in the rain, so as they grasp the training concept even more, the rain maybe becomes less of an issue (or it did for mine anyway)

[Oscar (AmBull)]

My experience is the same as Shellectra. Oscar's toilet training dropped significantly due to weather, when the rain came he toileted inside frequently, and before the rain we thought we had him set on where to toilet, outside. Oscar is now 5 months and I have seen him go outside even in the pouring rain to toilet. We haven't had an accident inside for a long time now, . I think that when they completely grasp the concept it will work, until then you just have to persevere. When Oscar's toileting declined we had to go right back to basics, taking him out all the time, we even blocked off certain areas of the house to make sure he didn't have an accident. I gave him lots of praise every time he toileted outside and even a treat everynow and then. How old is your puppy?

[MissLotus]

Hi,

I think you are all right about the weather. Because it hasn't been raining the last few days, when I've come home there hasn't been any accidents in her area So hopefully the weather keeps up until she fully understands the concept.

She is now 6 months old. So I guess it didn't help getting her during the winter.

Dogmad - the back door is left open just enough for her to go in and out as she is a bit too small to use the doggy door (we will start teaching her to use the doggy door after her stitches have healed from getting desexed).

Thanks for the feed back.