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Ok, so like everyone assured me, DeeDee eventually settled down and stopped her screaming through the nights, so now I need further reassurance that this (hopefully!) bad patch she's reached with her toilet training will settle back down too!
I wish now we'd trained her to go outside right from day one, rather then doing the pads on the kitchen floor thing, but it was March and cold and she was tiny, and well, anyway, she learnt pretty quickly to do all her toilets on her pads in the kitchen. We reduced them down to just one sheet left, and then started making her go outside. This worked fine, and although her method of asking to go out "stand by the door silently, in the hope that someone might notcie I've been here for 10 minutes and let me out" wasn't ideal, I was still pretty chuffed she'd toilet trained herself by 14 weeks.
BUT the last, I'd say, 3 weeks, she's started going in the kitchen again, and has actually done it in the hallway a few times which she hasnt done since she was 10 weeks! We'd still been keeping a paper down for emergencies as she's still only little, but she wasnt using it. Now we're back to watching her like a hawk everytime she wakes up, eats, has a play, vaguely sniffs the floor, and shoving her outside!
Sometimes she'll still get up and go to the door, but other times she'll trot off and you'll think she's gone for a drink or something, only to find she's been and peed somewhere
I've been reading up on it, and have found a few opinions that seem to think puppies can have a relapse stage once they start teething - is this true? She's been losing and cutting teeth at an alarming rate for about a month now, which is strange, as I thought theyy didnt start it until nearing 6 months? No?
She has moderately started chewing her toys more, and likes her ropey toys to be wetted and chilled as this seems to soothe her gums, but other then that, there's no other outward signs its affecting her.
So, could this relapse in toileting be the teeth, or something else we're not picking up on?
Thanks
I wish now we'd trained her to go outside right from day one, rather then doing the pads on the kitchen floor thing, but it was March and cold and she was tiny, and well, anyway, she learnt pretty quickly to do all her toilets on her pads in the kitchen. We reduced them down to just one sheet left, and then started making her go outside. This worked fine, and although her method of asking to go out "stand by the door silently, in the hope that someone might notcie I've been here for 10 minutes and let me out" wasn't ideal, I was still pretty chuffed she'd toilet trained herself by 14 weeks.
BUT the last, I'd say, 3 weeks, she's started going in the kitchen again, and has actually done it in the hallway a few times which she hasnt done since she was 10 weeks! We'd still been keeping a paper down for emergencies as she's still only little, but she wasnt using it. Now we're back to watching her like a hawk everytime she wakes up, eats, has a play, vaguely sniffs the floor, and shoving her outside!
Sometimes she'll still get up and go to the door, but other times she'll trot off and you'll think she's gone for a drink or something, only to find she's been and peed somewhere
I've been reading up on it, and have found a few opinions that seem to think puppies can have a relapse stage once they start teething - is this true? She's been losing and cutting teeth at an alarming rate for about a month now, which is strange, as I thought theyy didnt start it until nearing 6 months? No?
She has moderately started chewing her toys more, and likes her ropey toys to be wetted and chilled as this seems to soothe her gums, but other then that, there's no other outward signs its affecting her.
So, could this relapse in toileting be the teeth, or something else we're not picking up on?
Thanks
