Hi everyone, nice to see this site back. We got our orange roan boy back home 7 days ago, and he had been great until 2 days ago. When I put him in his crate at night, he's pooing then rolling in it, and yipping till I come and get him. He's so soiled I have to bath him, and then settle him down again.
Today, he decided he'd do this when I put him in his crate to go food shopping - he was there for half an hour, and when I came back, brown upset dog.
Again, at 3pm, left him for 15 mins, back in, *code brown* as the kids are calling it. I'm worried this is becoming a habit, he's 8 and a half weeks old, so I don't expect him to be toilet trained, it's just he seems to be regressing.
It's not runny, he's in good health, eating well, and I have never raised my voice to him, or scolded him for having accidents. He's been doing brilliantly, hitting his puppy pads about 50% of the time, but I'm worried at this new habit. One thing I thought may be something to do with it, we left him over night (our house, but with my mother in law) but she's dog mad - could he have been upset by this? I feel awfully upset if I've contributed to this.
Shona