Skip to content

Kipawa nighttime peeing

Basenji Training
  • @Basenjimamma:

    So is it odd that Pippin does sleep thorugh the night

    I don't know if it's odd or not, but when we got Maxx at 11 weeks of age, he slept through the night from the first night, too.

  • I think they are all different… and sometimes baby puppies sleep so sound they pee in their sleep... as I don't think that the brain is totally connected to... "I have to pee".... ggg
    Keep in mind that Mom's encouraged peeing/pooping by cleaning and licking them... and most times that was when they are sleeping.....

  • Keep in mind that Mom's encouraged peeing/pooping by cleaning and licking them… and most times that was when they are sleeping.....

    Although Pippin didn't have a mom after 10 days, she passed away.

  • @Basenjimamma:

    Although Pippin didn't have a mom after 10 days, she passed away.

    Which would maybe make a difference, however…. the "human" would have had to do the stimulation... (obviously not by licking :eek:)

  • Thats so sad about pippins mom, what happened?

  • Dmey, she passed away from acute uterine infection…very sad indeed.

  • Last night I set the alarm for 3:30 a.m. and got up to let Kipawa pee. That worked out fine for him, but I am bagged this morning. We'll do this for a little while, and gradually increase the hours until he eventually sleeps through the night.

    First thing in the morning he is out until I drink my coffee and quickly read the newspaper. He doesn't like it - there is some separation anxiety happening when I am not sitting outside with him. But I will keep to this routine. Eventually I believe he will get to know that outside in the a.m. does not mean his mommy is abandoning him.

    Our home is one level, and we do not have a doggy door. Somehow I don't think he would willingly go outside at night on his own as during the day, even if we leave the back door open, he does not venture out. I don't think he is a fan of the damp grass for doing business.

  • @dmey:

    Maybe this helps, at first Ayo would pee outside when I took him out, but I always left some newspaper in a corner and when he couldn't hold it he would go there, ( don't ask me who taught him that!!!) so I didn't have to wake up at two or three am, he would just use the paper and go back to sleep. Eventually I would wake up and the paper would be dry, until I didn't need it anymore!! I can't remember how old he was, but I never got up to take him out. Only the other day when he had diareah, then he woke me up!!!!

    I did pretty much this same thing with Paco when he was that age, with puppy pads. The problem came in when he grew bigger and started to "miss" the puppy pads, as he never stopped using them on his own like Ayo did. After a failed attempt at litterbox training him, we wound up having to crate him at night until we woke up to let him outside to use the bathroom. About a week of that, and he seemed to get the idea that he could hold it all night. :)

  • I'll be setting the alarm again tonight for 3:30 a.m. After a week to week and a half of that, I'll change the alarm to 4:30 a.m., and continue on that routine, gradually increasing the time by one hour, until eventuaully Kipawa can hold his pee all night.

  • @Kipawa:

    I'll be setting the alarm again tonight for 3:30 a.m. After a week to week and a half of that, I'll change the alarm to 4:30 a.m., and continue on that routine, gradually increasing the time by one hour, until eventuaully Kipawa can hold his pee all night.

    That sound like a really good plan… hope it works out...

    I am sorry to hear about Pippins mom. ....

Suggested Topics

  • Peeing in my mums house??

    Basenji Training
    12
    0 Votes
    12 Posts
    3k Views
    DebraDownSouthD
    LOL long ago I had a chow and roommate. The roommate did not like the chow and yelled at her. She came home to find the chow had gotten into her laundry basket and pooped. My roommate was smart. She began being nice to the chow. It's like the AA saying, fake it til you make it. She eventually bonded with her.
  • Pooping, peeing, screaming in crate

    Basenji Training
    12
    0 Votes
    12 Posts
    6k Views
    lvossL
    Patricia McConnell has a book called I'll Be Home Soon that addresses Separation Anxiety. http://www.patriciamcconnell.com/product/dog-separation-anxiety
  • Peeing in crate during the night

    Basenji Training
    26
    0 Votes
    26 Posts
    14k Views
    D
    We have really good luck with our little 9 week old at night now (wish I could say that about daytime)… He falls asleep on one of our laps typically around 9:30pm (usually my fiance' is watching tv) and then we wake him back up once he is good and asleep and WARM, and take him outside to pee, this way he does it very fast and wants to go back to sleep, so then we put him in his dog bed. After he is asleep we move the whole dog bed into his small crate in our bedroom. Mind you we won't use the crate once we can TRUST HIM. Our bedroom has brand new carpet and new paint and all new very expensive furniture (basically we did that right before we decided to get a Basenji :P) So then if he wakes up and whines, I get up and rush right to him and immediately take him outside on the leash, he goes immediately, then I give him half a treat and he lays next to me on the bed to fall asleep (he will NOT go back to sleep if I put him in the crate and my fiance' can't handle the screaming (she needs her sleep as she commutes a LONG drive every day)) so then if he falls asleep before I do, I move him back to the crate. Obviously the downfall to this is that sometimes I fall asleep first and then he gets to sleep in my bed... but he always wakes me up if he has to go (I keep my arm around him). But we started this method about a week and a half ago and only had an incident in our bed the first night, since then its been better and better every night! Now he only has to get up one time per night, which is usually around 3:30am now, it used to be 2, then 2:30, etc... so he is getting better. However I have learned to give up on the idea of getting him to fall back asleep after my fiance' gets up for work, he will just fight me the whole time. I sure wish I had the ability to be home all day to not have to crate my dog, but it is not an option, people have to work. So a lot of dogs will have to be crated for long periods of time. Hopefully eventually they get used to it. :)
  • Crate peeing!

    Basenji Training
    11
    0 Votes
    11 Posts
    3k Views
    hdolbowH
    mia only gets water when were there to watch her and take her out about 10-15 minutes later.. whenever shes taken out of the crate she goes straight outside.. and before we put her in we take her out again, whether thats 15 or 20 minutes or an hour. i've quickly learned that water goes RIGHT through them. so taking the water out of the cage should work! she has an occasional accident but not everyday.
  • Plz help- will pee in his crate when locked!

    Basenji Training
    2
    0 Votes
    2 Posts
    2k Views
    tanzaT
    When you have a new puppy, there is an adjustment period… first, I keep their crates in my bedroom so that if a pup needs to go out, I am able to hear them and get them up and out... Also, did you make sure that he pottied first? Had he ever been in a crate?... They don't just take to coming into a new home and then being locked in a crate without some "crate training"....
  • Tired of Pee

    Basenji Training
    4
    0 Votes
    4 Posts
    2k Views
    QuercusQ
    sounds like separation anxiety. You might try using a crate so he has less space; it might make him more comfortable to have less space, believe it or not! There is a thread here somewhere about how to go about desensitizing a dog to being alone. It takes a lot of work, and very small steps. If you can't find it, let me know, and I will make another post. Experts tell us that it can take up to a year for rescue dogs to settle into their new homes, sometimes. When they find something they really value (their new family) they are afraid when the people leave that they won't come back. Hang in there. Have patience :) Oh, and try the DAP plug ins. They produce a calming pheremone to relax a nervous dog. You can look online, or find them at some pet supply stores. I have no personal experience with them…I keep meaning to try it...but lots of people have very good reports about them.