Help!!!!!

[luvofallhorses]

12 hours is WAY too long to expect ANY dog to stay in a confined space like that, especially a young puppy.

I agree 100%!

[wolf_Q]

If she must be confined for 12 hours at a time (where will you be for 12 hours? ) you may try getting one of those wire pens for dogs and set it up in the kitchen, laundry room, etc, that way she will have more room to move aorund. You could put some puppy pee pads that she could use to potty on.

[grybai]

If no one can be home for 12 hours, you should consider getting a puppy pen instead of a crate and using puppy pads. 12 hours is way too long even for an adult dog, especially one that size. You may also want to consider litter training her since she's a small dog.

[Ginger's Mom]

Amy and Grybai are absolutely right. I had a very hard time housebreaking Ginger, because she was left alone for 9 1/2 hours a day. Someone suggested that rather than leaving her in a crate, I gate her in a room (I used the kitchen) and put down puppy pads. It definitely made a difference, she was housebroken a few weeks later. Now it may not be that quick for Tink because she is still very young. (I tried a puppy pen, but she kept climbing out and meeting me at the door, so I had to get a gate that had slats that only went up and down, not across.)

[Vette]

Thats along time for a such a young pup to hold it. maybe 2 or 3 horus... but 12?

i cant even hold it that long. LOL

[shais_mom]

this just keeps getting better and better
My adult dog has had to wait for upwards of 12+ hours before and I totally understand if she has an accident while waiting for me.
I agree - where are YOU going to be for 12 hours and why can't she go with you?
This should have been taken into consideration when you got such a tiny dog. It isn't going to be like Roxey - isn't she outside? There is no potty training to that. You may just have to block her off in a tiled area with puppy pads or a litter box. How would you like to be stuck in a small cage (and I say this b/c you emphasized that it was her size) for 12 hours. Trust me I know the guilt of putting a dog in there. I worked 12 hour shifts myself when I had my greyhound and to this day I can't honestly say if her having to hold it this long may have attributed to her seizures and ultimate death.
I really am not 'mad' at you but your mom should have really thought this thru.

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And actually Jackie - I think that goes against what all I have ever heard about small breeds. That their bladders are smaller altho of course their bladders are the right size relative to their body size but they have to be let out more frequently then bigger breeds.



I guess you learn something new everyday.

I am not really sure WHO learned something but ok..... b/c I still stand by what I have read in several magazines and books.

[Kfamr]

I really am not 'mad' at you but your mom should have really thought this thru.

I agree.


Besides the fact that the dog is being left for so long, I'm 'mad' that they get a dog while their poor previous dog is to be stuck outside with no inside access, because it doesn't get along with the CAT - which the both of them can be easily seperated, I know because i've done it! I just couldn't imagine leaving a dog outside and having one inside who gets to feel the comfort of controlled weather.

[Roxyluvsme13]

We solved the Tink problem, she was kept in a whole room with puppy pee pads all night. She liked it too. She had plenty of room. She couldn't go with me, because I go to my grandpas, and he wouldnt let her come. It's not my fault Roxy has to stay outside and Tink stays inside...MANY dogs around here are in this same situation. They stay outside all the time, and other dogs get to stay inside. Roxy has always always always lived outside, and if it rains or storms really hard, or snows, or gets very cold she IS allowed inside.

[IRescue452]

Autumn had a crate just big enough for her as a puppy and I had to give her a bath each time she was in the crate for more than an hour. She was so scared of it she'd pee. I think it was also because she was a puppy mill dog and she spent her first 14 weeks going to the bathromm right in her cage. We got her potty trained quickly so we didn't have to deal with it for long. Is there not one tiny spot of grass outside you'd be willing to carry her to for potty training? I know many people are worried about taking there dogs outside before vaccinations but I recommend just finding one little spot and setting her down to go then taking her back inside.

[Roxyluvsme13]

Tink has not been outside at all. Like the reason you said not all shots yet. We cant find a collar small enough for her either, so she is being housetrained with puppy pee pads. Tink pees in the crate due to the puppy mill fact, too, and she is learning that puppy pads are what she pees on...so she uses them...