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Slm New Member  Posts: 3 |
posted 10-17-2003 05:17 AM
 
Will sprinkling cayenne pepper on my new Brazilian Cherry hardwood floor keep my 13 year old cocker from pooping/peeing on floors. The floors were just finished yesterday and during the night (she has had run of house for last 3 years) she pooped in the dining room. Guess that's better than peeing but I don't like it. Thinking of sprinkling cayenne pepper around and maybe that will keep her away. I bought the training pads and put one by the back door. She just chewed the corner off it. They definitely don't work, waste of $20. I just hate caging her again because she's old but I don't want to ruin my floors either. May try putting baby gate up in laundry room and give her that little space with the tile floors. IP: Logged |
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Jamiya Member  Posts: 501 |
posted 10-17-2003 07:29 AM
I have heard that something about new floors or carpeting sometimes makes dogs decide to pee on them. I have no idea on the cayenne pepper, so I can't help you there. I would definitely try confining her at night or when you can't watch her, at least for a while. As far as the training pads go, I don't think a dog will just automatically look at it and know they are supposed to use it. I know it is treated with stuff that is supposed to make them want to use it, but unless the dog has been trained to that spot I am not surprised that it didn't work.
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Maisey Member Posts: 585 |
posted 10-17-2003 08:39 AM
Cayenne pepper works on the mucous membranes, inflaming them. The "pepper spray" that police officers use is exactly that. If your dog inhales it or gets into it, it will be painful. Being painful may teach her to avoid that particular spot, but the problem won't be solved, she will just move to a new spot. Jas, if I remember from an earlier post the dog has been urinating on the floor in that same spot for a while. Just because she has had the run of the house for the last three years doesn't mean you can't start crating her now. If you want to use the pads, take some of her urine and poop and place it on the pad, as gross as this is, it's the same concept that keeps her defacating in the spot in your dining room. She smells her own...and associates it as her potty spot. I had a beagle that lived to be 23, in her last year she would have accidents in front of our back door if nobody was there immediately to open the door, she just couldn't hold it anymore. I placed the pads there so at leaste my floors weren't getting ruined. She went on them just fine. Later in that year when she lost even more control she would look for them. I can't remember...was this dog ever potty trained completely? If so have you taken her to the vet to see if there is a physical reason for her sudden incontinence? IP: Logged |
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Slm New Member Posts: 3 |
posted 10-17-2003 11:17 AM
Yes, she has always been potty trained. But if no one is around she will find a spot she has already gone to do her business. She likes to go outside alot and when my husband is home he's always saying she goes out too much and he will be sitting by the back door and won't let her out. I think she likes the cooler weather and she may go to the back door every 30 minutes. Anyway, when he doesn't let her out are we are gone for awhile at night she sometimes goes in the dining room. She can't go upstairs any more to use the carpet up there because we put something over the stairs. And she can and has gone for long periods. I was just hoping with all that nasty carpet pulled up she wouldn't start using the new hardwood floors. So far she hasn't peed on them, just #2 and that was easy enough to clean up. I'm going to try tonight when we go out and tomorrow when I go out during the day to put up a gate in my laundry room and see how she makes it. I have doors rubberbanded to so she can get through 2 sets of double doors but that's a pain. I haven't taken her to a vet to see if there's a problem because she doesn't just go because she can't make it outside. I think she has a mental problem. She had a large cancer taken off last year, can't hear that well any more and has one eye that doesn't produce tears any more. Cute dog though. IP: Logged |
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Pauline Member Posts: 123 |
posted 10-17-2003 06:27 PM
First off, the dog is older, and if no urinary system infections/problems, and no growths anyhwere, in good health, this may be bad muscles of aging...I wold confine the dog at night, after taking it out as close to your bedtime as possible. If you had dog aside bed before, perhaps in a crate will do fine, with a comfy toy...no water or food about 2 hrs before bedtime. Good luck now. IP: Logged |
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