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Nearly 38 wks and my dog is stressing me out

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sarah00001 · 13/06/2015 11:47

Hi, I will be 38 wks on Tuesday and really struggling at the moment with SPD and just generally feeling pretty rough and also quite depressed. One thing that is really getting me down is the behaviour of my dog - a cross between a chihuaha and a dacshund. She's started to poo in the house in the early hours of the morning. She's done this before, but she stopped for a while and now she's doing it again. I live alone so there is noone else to clean it up. I do everything I can to stop her doing this. I let her out in the garden as late as I possibly can which is usually midnight, which means I can never have an early night. I also let her out every couple of hours during the day and also take her a walk daily, but it makes no difference.

When I do go to bed, I feel stressed and anxious knowing I'm going to get up to find the hallway or the kitchen covered in poo. It would be ok if she let me know she needed the toilet, if she could just bark then I could get up and let her out, but she doesn't.

At 3.30am this morning I heard her wandering about so I went downstairs to find poo all over the kitchen and had to get the mop and bucket out and start cleaning the floor. She may be doing it because she senses the baby is due and feels jealous (my sister stayed last week and my dog did a wee outside her bedroom door).

I just can't cope with this any more and don't know what to do. I love my dog and would miss her if I gave her away but I can't keep on doing this. Not being able to sleep properly because of a dog and having to clean up poo daily when the dog is seven years old is just crazy and when the baby is here it will be a total nightmare if she keeps doing this.

My sister suggested putting her in a cage at night which i think is a great idea but i tried it before with her and she just cried and barked.

I wondered if anyone else had any suggestions as to what I can do?

Thank you, Sarah

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Emjones88 · 16/06/2015 16:36

Well done you, a crate will be excellent for when baby arrives too as that'll be hers and deffo not babies.

Really pleased introducing a crate worked for an older dog, it went terrible for mine and put him backwards (despite doing it all the same as you) just shows they are all individuals.

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