deucing in kennel

[vandeman17]

So my dog has started crapping in her kennel the past week or so. She never did it before but started doing it every day.  I lock her up before I go to work, about 7:45 and then I let her out about 5:15 when I get home. The kennel is 10 feet long and 5 feet wide with an igloo in it. Any suggestions on how to get her to stop? 

[jackelope]

Don't leave her in it for 10 hours a day and expect her not to poop if she needs to??
Just a thought.

[bobcat]

Stop feeding her?  

[rasbo]

its her way of saying ten hrs in a locked up kennel sucks...mine wont crap but after ten hrs away she craps..Im sure she was prairie doggiong until she just had to let it go

[vandeman17]

Ya, 10 hours is a long time and I wish I could do different but until she gets older and it gets warmer outside, she has to stay in there while I am gone to work.

[jackelope]

Then I would say you're gonna have to live with cleaning up the poop.
Not trying to be rude...don't take it the wrong way, but it is what it is. She needs to be able to poop so she does.

[rasbo]

Ya, 10 hours is a long time and I wish I could do different but until she gets older and it gets warmer outside, she has to stay in there while I am gone to work.

well,no problem with them being in there,but they just gotta do it...Ive left mine in there for a few days and she damn near stacks her poop,always as far from the igloo as she can get in a 10x10

[vandeman17]

Then I would say you're gonna have to live with cleaning up the poop.
Not trying to be rude...don't take it the wrong way, but it is what it is. She needs to be able to poop so she does.

I am not taking it the wrong way at all. Just wasn't sure if someone had something they did. I wish that she would deuce when I let her out in the morning before I leave. I put her out for about a half hour while I am eating breakfast and showering. Why can't she do it then and then go again if she has to when I get home? haha

[Curly]

You could get up earlier in the morning and take her for a walk to get her to go and see if that makes it so she can hold it all day. 

[RAMSFAN]

I agree with Curley, get up just a bit earlier (if possiable) take her for a walk, see if she'll go then.
If not, try and feed her earlier in the morning that way she can work that food out before she goes in her
kennell. Not much else you can do.

[Special T]

My dog normaly sleeps in his crate in the house.. He Blew mud allover in it the other night... I'll trade your cleanup for mine!

[vandeman17]

My dog normaly sleeps in his crate in the house.. He Blew mud allover in it the other night... I'll trade your cleanup for mine!

Haha no thanks but thanks for the offer. That is one thing I have been lucky about so far is they have been solid logs so the clean up is pretty easy. Only thing worse then when a dog has the splatters is baby poop. That could be the most revolting smell out there! 

[Happy Gilmore]

If she has a 5' x 10' run, why shouldn't she poop in it? put some cedar down and clean up once a day? no big deal. That's a long day without a pooh. I can't go that long.

Try feeding her dinner a little earlier. If you feed morning and night, feed a little more at night and less in the morning. She might get on schedule again.

Just my first thought. Mine hold it often but, I don't expect them to not go all day if they need to go.

[vandeman17]

If she has a 5' x 10' run, why shouldn't she poop in it? put some cedar down and clean up once a day? no big deal. That's a long day without a pooh. I can't go that long.

Try feeding her dinner a little earlier. If you feed morning and night, feed a little more at night and less in the morning. She might get on schedule again.

Just my first thought. Mine hold it often but, I don't expect them to not go all day if they need to go.

The kennel is in my garage so I smells if it sits in there while I am gone to work. I have thought about the feeding schedule idea but she is such a picky, dainty eater that she doesn't really have a routine. I even tried the put the food down for a few minutes and then take it away if she doesn't eat it and it didn't phase her.

[GoldTip]

Not sure why, but my dog (8 1/2 year old choco lab) almost never poops even in his outside kennel, which is covered with cedar shavings and is a 10x10.  I clean poop out of his kennel maybe one time every 2 weeks, and no it's not stacked to the ceiling, maybe a shovel full in that amount of time.  He gets out of the kennel and screws around for a few minutes then ehads out back.  He just likes pooping out back and avoids even pooping in the actual mowed area of the yard.  Just got lucky I guess.  One thing I could recommend for your problem is playing fetch with your dog for 10 minutes before heading to work in the morning.  That always seems to work one outta my dog for sure.