Puppy pissing on the water bowl mat?!

[WoozySooz]

Argh!!!

I'm taking her out all the time.

But she keeps going to the toilet on the mat that has her water bowl on.

I have 3 dogs and their water bowls are on a large plastic mat with raised edges so their water doesn't spill everywhere.

The puppy keeps pissing on it.

It's doing my head in, any idea how I can stop her doing this?

I'd rather her do it in the floor than on this mat!

I'm taking her out after she wakes up, after she's had a drink. Every 45 minutes really.

The back door is mostly just open but she never goes outside to pee on her own.

Because she doesn’t know that’s where you want her to go. Watch like a hawk if she doesn’t go when you take her out. You just need to make sure she’s outside when she needs to go. That way you can praise when she goes and develop the habit. Maybe the breeder had a tray with pads in to try and train her to that?? She will learn.

The breeder definitely used pee mats.

We never had as I don't wnat to teach her to pee inside.

I take her out and praise her like mad and give her a treat when she pees outside.

I ignore any pees inside.

Do you bleach the tray? That can make them go.

That can make them go on the tray? Or make them stop?

Makes them go there.

Could you move it closer and closer to the door and eventually outside? Get a new water bowl mat

And I feel your pain, my dog used to go outside and then come in and pee on my rug. The only thing that solved it in my case was shouting or making a loud noise whilst carrying wee'ing dog to the garden

Don't leave the back door open until she's fully trained - it doesn't help as many puppies just don't understand where the boundary is between inside and outside.

You need to clean any accidents up with pet enzyme cleanser - never use bleach as it contains ammonia and just encourages them to keep peeing in the same space.

Remove the mat (can go back once she's learned to pre in the garden).

At this stage it sounds like it's really confusing her.

We had to pick up every single mat /rug when ddog was a puppy. The welcome mats at doorways, hall runner, rug in lounge and her food /water mat as she'd pee on them all.

She never peed on the floor past the very early days so when we picked them up, problem solved.

We tried reintroducing them after quite a while, when she was 6 months and had been fully, reliably toilet trained for ages and she started peeing on them again so up they came.

We finally put them back down when she was about 11 months and no more pee, she seems to have grown out of it!

Ah, OK. Great advice here. Yes I've been using bleach!

Will take the mat up and get an enzyme cleaner.

Thankyou!