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I'm new here, and I joined because I need advise. We have a 5 month old Jack Russell. She is the 2nd one we've had. She is mostly housebroken, meaning she waits until we take her out to go to the bathroom, unless we forget about it, and it goes to long. Then she'll do a puddle or pile by the door. She sleeps in a crate at night, and during the day if we leave her for more than 2-3 hours. Otherwise, she has the run of the kitchen, and dining area. The problem is that she will sometimes pee on the pad in her crate, and additionally, if we have a towel laying on the floor by the door (one we use to wipe dog feet when they come in), she'll pee on that as well. She doesn't always pee in her crate. She'll go weeks without doing so, and then she'll start it again. When she's started the peeing, she'll seem to continue peeing on the crate pad, until I notice it and wash it. For instance, I picked it up yesterday morning, and the back of it showed about 60% pee stains. Prior to that it had been quite a while since she'd peed on it. We want to be able to give her the run of the house eventually, however, if she always shows a tendency to pee on anything absorbent, we will have to find her a new home. I know Jacks are difficult to train, and the occassional puddles and piles on the floor do not worry me at all. It's the crate peeing. I've heard some Jacks will never be completely house broken, and also know personally a family who's
jack always pees in her crate. They don't think she does it anywhere else in the house, but I'm willing to bet they just don't find it very often when she does it. The urine doesn't seem to have a very strong odor at all.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated, especially someone with knowledge/experience with this particular issue.
Thanks, Steph
I'm new here, and I joined because I need advise. We have a 5 month old Jack Russell. She is the 2nd one we've had. She is mostly housebroken, meaning she waits until we take her out to go to the bathroom, unless we forget about it, and it goes to long. Then she'll do a puddle or pile by the door. She sleeps in a crate at night, and during the day if we leave her for more than 2-3 hours. Otherwise, she has the run of the kitchen, and dining area. The problem is that she will sometimes pee on the pad in her crate, and additionally, if we have a towel laying on the floor by the door (one we use to wipe dog feet when they come in), she'll pee on that as well. She doesn't always pee in her crate. She'll go weeks without doing so, and then she'll start it again. When she's started the peeing, she'll seem to continue peeing on the crate pad, until I notice it and wash it. For instance, I picked it up yesterday morning, and the back of it showed about 60% pee stains. Prior to that it had been quite a while since she'd peed on it. We want to be able to give her the run of the house eventually, however, if she always shows a tendency to pee on anything absorbent, we will have to find her a new home. I know Jacks are difficult to train, and the occassional puddles and piles on the floor do not worry me at all. It's the crate peeing. I've heard some Jacks will never be completely house broken, and also know personally a family who's
jack always pees in her crate. They don't think she does it anywhere else in the house, but I'm willing to bet they just don't find it very often when she does it. The urine doesn't seem to have a very strong odor at all.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated, especially someone with knowledge/experience with this particular issue.
Thanks, Steph