My dog is crate trained but I work long hours. How do I get her to use puppy pads? She refuses to pee inside.?
I feel bad leaving her in the crate for so long. I don't know what else to try. She just will not relieve herself in the house even on the pads.
Most dogs will not pee in their crate at all. By instinct dogs won't pee in the area they consider their 'den' - and if you dog considers the create as her den, she won't pee.
It is kind of like you not peeing in your front yard when you know you pee on a toilet - for your dog it isn't right for her to pee in her crate.
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DO NOT allow your dog to continue to pee/poop in the crate. This will ruin its instinct to keep the den clean and make house training very difficult. If you cannot figure out and correct the reason or are not being able to religiously honor the schedule switch to an ex-pen or go back to a previous schedule immediately at least until you can resolve the situation.
We can suite the dogs to get on to a mat, and reward them when they stay. The mats can go in any room and in their sleeping crates, and in in the good old days b simultaneously the dogs will treat them as reassuring, comfortable spaces. We can try to square the dogs' enclosed part of
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