For those of you who have dogs...

[valentine]

Have any of you had luck teaching your dog to crap in one "area" ?

What's the best method?

We don't have a huge back yard and with my wife doing day-care out of the house, it gets to be a pain in the ass keeping up with the crap. We don't want to send the kids home with their shoes smellling like poo.

My 8 yr old son usually cleans up every day after school, but with all the rain we've been getting we've let him slack a little bit. Now with 2 days of sun, we're venturing out and finding s*** all over the place.........

 

[e rock]

In my experience, it has everything to do with how they lived as newborn puppies.

My current lab lived in a grassy yard until we brought her home. The only hard surface she knew was the dogloo she slept in. To this day 6 years later, I don't think she's ever dropped one on a hard surface. Her run is partly concrete with a wood-chip area. She only poops in the chips.

That doesn't necessarily solve your problem, but it makes me think it's going to be tough to train your dog anything else.

 

[bigndn]

Excellent question. I've tried everything with my labs (currently) and other dogs over the years. The only thing that's been successful for me is fencing them out of an area. Maybe someone else has had better luck.

 

[lingo]

My rottie always ran as far out as he was willing to go. When he was little it wasn't far but as he grew up her would always go out to the fence line. No training, he just did it.

 

[macneill]

Our 6 month old pup is pooping on his training wee-wee pads in the bathroom.

He's gotten real good at it, but he'll have an accident once in a while.

We started than taking the pads outside and to our roof deck to get him to go on them. He then learned that and now goes outside without the pads, but never in the same spot unfortunately.

That's going to be a tough one I think.

 

[rusty_tlc]

Could be a breed thing. Every one of the Standard Poodles I've had would pick a five or six foot round area and always use it. Unless I let it get to full. They always seem to pick a spot as far away from the door as they can get. My sisters Border Collie dumps wherever she happens to be.

 

[IDave]

My found dog ONLY poops in the tall grass, which was a MAJOR problem when he visited grandma and grandpa in the Chicago burbs, where the grass is only short.

His golden retriever friend poops wherever she happens to be.

Who knows?

 

[Poriomania]

I read that if you move the piles to one area of the yard the dog will start using that area. After cleaning the yard a couple of times I saw the dogs start to use that area more often, but I never made an effort to train them to do it. You might try walking it on the leash in the yard and take it to the spot where you want him to go when he's ready.

 

[valentine]

I read that if you move the piles to one area of the yard the dog will start using that area. After cleaning the yard a couple of times I saw the dogs start to use that area more often, but I never made an effort to train them to do it. You might try walking it on the leash in the yard and take it to the spot where you want him to go when he's ready.

I might have to try moving the piles to one spot thing...

I've thought about the leash thing, but with my wife doing the daycare thing, it's next to impossible for her to do that.

 

[Ratpuke]

Prado has a favourite poop spot for about 2 weeks at a time.
Kodi likes to pooh on trees or shrubs.


What a great thread!!!

 

[SR.GRINGO]

my doberman drops either behind the cruiser or if I have been away below the drivers door

my lab spins in circles.... covers a 6 foot radius each time--usually a fine mess

I gave up trying to train them

On the same subject we live near the Ocean and my lab never drinks the water but the doberman always fill up--results in a supurb case of the s***s...... Any ideas?

You might check out the invisible fence idea.....

 

[valentine]

What a great thread!!!

Other that Cruisers, Gubs & dogs are the next 2 things that we all have in common

 

[concretejungle]

I think it's a coin toss. Some dogs crap anywhere, others crap only in particular places. My lab and my mutt both crap in particular places, away from the back porch. My roommy's dog will crap right on the back steps and porch. We can't figure it out.

 

[valentine]

I think I'll try the move the poop to one location & see how that works. If that doesn't work I don't know... Maybe I'll try the power of google

 

[phantom60]

my black lab refuses to poop in the yard unless he's hurtin'. in the morning i take him for a walk, he always drops one right next to the same garbage can everytime. in the evening i take him for a run and he drops one in the same field as we run by. other than that he always has to back up into the bushes or tall grass to do his thing. never taught him anything, just started doing it himself since i got him......

 

[cary]

My Shepherd falls in the crap along the fence perimeter line.

 

[rusty_tlc]

my black lab refuses to poop in the yard unless he's hurtin'. in the morning i take him for a walk, he always drops one right next to the same garbage can everytime. in the evening i take him for a run and he drops one in the same field as we run by. other than that he always has to back up into the bushes or tall grass to do his thing. never taught him anything, just started doing it himself since i got him......

This reminded me of the first Standard Poodle we had. He would jump our 6' fence and crap in the vacant lot next door. He was a great dog.

 

[spressomon]

I got tired of trying to keep the grass green...hell it's hard enough out here in the desert as it is without dog sharse/pee to contend with too. So I dug down an 8'x 18' by 1' deep on the west side of our property (solar sharse drierer outer) and layed in pea gravel (round pea gravel) for the dogs latrine. Our Standard Poodle and our Wirehair Pointer took to it in no time. They both were adult dogs when I taught them. I just used a leash to make sure they did their 'business' on the pea gravel. It only took a few days of this routine before they did it on their own...

Or if you have a really stubborn dog you might need to apply small amounts of electricity (shock/correction collar) to 'encourage' where they 'go'...

 

[rusty_tlc]

I got tired of trying to keep the grass green...hell it's hard enough out here in the desert as it is without dog sharse/pee to contend with too. So I dug down an 8'x 18' by 1' deep on the west side of our property (solar sharse drierer outer) and layed in pea gravel (round pea gravel) for the dogs latrine. Our Standard Poodle and our Wirehair Pointer took to it in no time. They both were adult dogs when I taught them. I just used a leash to make sure they did their 'business' on the pea gravel. It only took a few days of this routine before they did it on their own...

Or if you have a really stubborn dog you might need to apply small amounts of electricity (shock/correction collar) to 'encourage' where they 'go'...

I'm going to try that with Jake.
Do you hunt your poodle?

 

[photogod]

Much easire to do with a pup but you can train your dog to go where ever you want. Take him/her out right away after a nap or when you let it out of the crate you will have to keep in in when your not home. If the crate is the right size the dog wont poop in there cause they wont poop where they sleep. Keep it on a leash and go to the spot you want the job done. Pick a command like "Do your duties" or the like and repeat till the jobs done. Stay there till it's done and reward = playtime, not treats. Do this for a couple weeks and with a dog of average smarts it will work. Some sort of controled confinement is needed or the training won't work and you can never play before the job is done. I can get my dog to poop on command and she knows to do her thing before we go for a ride or on a trip. Freaked my wife out, when the dog was a pup (year old) and I had trained her to do the on command thing and we stoped for gas and I asked my wife to take the dog to the pooch run to poop. She came back and said "She didn't have to go" I gave the dog the heel command and we went to the pooch aria and said "DUTIES", the dog circled three times and dumped and ran to the truck. My wife just shook her head and laughed. It works but you have to stick with it with NO interuption in the training cycle. Good luck.