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Originally Posted by Sapphireho
I hate to say, I've been told many time over the years that there is not a single bread of dog that will shit/piss where they sleep on purpose. Once they do, for whatever reason, you lost the battle. Wish I had some words of wisdom to help. My advice spike should be to get professional help.
Edit: sorry , I just read your long post where he hasn't gone in his crate. Good news. Keep taking him out more, always say "potty" or whatever word you want when he does go outside, so he learns on command " now is the time". Keep working at it. It will get better.
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That's the problem though. He's 9 weeks old. Breeder said he had sufficient first round of vaccines to be able to go out on the grass near my building as long as he didnt interact with other dogs. So we were doing that the past four days. But the vet told me yesterday at Haru's first check-up that he should not go outside, period, till 18 weeks (third round of shots is at 16 weeks and they don't fully activate till 18).
So now until the grass thing comes for my balcony, I just have to pick up after him. Sadly sometimes he does well with the pee pads and sometimes pees like right next to them, lol.
But I know he's a puppy and most of this is normal.
He only has peed in the crate bed once and I _think_ it was more like he wet the bed while sleeping. Washed the blanket he sleeps on and no problem.
Also, he pooped for a 2nd time today, totally normal looking and whatnot. Not ideal location but oh well. It was on a cheap rug carpet from Target that I use to wipe my feet on when I come in from the balcony, so I'm not even that worried about that. Easy to replace. Better that than the actual carpet on the floor.