Pooing in the house

[FoxRedPuppy]

Advice on how to stop 9 month old pooing and occasionally weeing in house? Did all the usual toilet training, taking outside every hour etc. Still do after he wakes up or just hasn’t been for a while.

But he still goes in house. Examples, he sleeps in my room but if o don’t close door he will go downstairs in night and poo/wee. But with door closed he doesn’t wake me to go and doesn’t seem desperate in morning.

This morning he went out for a wee first thing, then came back himself. He doesn’t normally poo first thing (he waits for his walk). I went upstairs and he poo’d on floor downstairs.

It’s not in same place and I use the spray to mask scent. Often it is by back door, but often random. He gets a treat as reward and lots of praise for going outside and I don’t say anything about the indoor ones.

He is so good otherwise, he’s taken so well to training, we get compliments on his behaviour for his age! What am I doing wrong?

How are you cleaning up the poo?/wee? If you’re not doing a thorough clean (and I mean seriously through) then any residual smell might encourage him to continue toileting indoors.

But, you should be telling him off for pooing indoors. By his age he should be long since housetrained - so you need to tell him off for bad behaviour as you would do if he did something else naughty.

What breed is he?

He's a cockapoo. I do clean up thoroughly with that cleaner that is supposed to mask the smell. Also it is never really in the same place.

The smell does linger - you might not know it, but it does and dogs have really sensitive noses. So even if it's not in the same place, he'll smell it.

Cockerpoos are intelligent - so he likely knows he's doing wrong. You'll just need to be a tad firmer and tell him off when he does it (and you catch him in the moment - you can't tell him off after the fact).