Looking for a bit of advice about my working cockers...
I have two, a mum who is 7 and her daughter who is nearly 1. They're absolutely brilliant dogs who I adore and are well trained in every respect for recall etc, have great temperaments.
They stay in a crate overnight, live in the kitchen and either get a short and a long walk everyday or are running round the farm where DH works.
The issue we have is with the younger one and her toilet habits. We let her out to go to the toilet, which she always does in the garden or on a walk but as soon as she comes back in and is left alone in the kitchen she poos. No matter what time of day, when she's eaten last she does it and never when we can actually catch her. She never does it in the crate, only ever on the kitchen floor.
She's had check ups at the vets and there is nothing physically wrong with her but this is just getting to the point where it's really upsetting and I don't know what else to do to stop it?
I go out in the garden with her and give her loads of praise for going to the toilet outside and we've started hiding their food in the garden to give them a bit more mental stimulation rather than them gulping it down, but really lost for ideas now.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!