Clean Habits? - Page 1

I see often that people advertise dogs as having "clean habits". I an assuming not every dog has "clean habits"?

Clean habits would mean crapping in the same area, IMHO   Which is usually a healthy dog's nature. Kennel dogs often have dirty habits, is my guess, because they have no choice.

Ace- How could you forget my all time favourite thread?

My female GSD was house trained in about a day... my new male pup...it will probably be months. He runs as he pees and just doesn't care where he lets it rip. *shrug* It was a huge shock at first since I thought all GSDs were as obsessively tidy as Senta.

I used to think it was a male vs female thing....my female was as clean as could be, very finicky about where she goes, would die holding it before she made a mess, after pooping will launch herself into the air about 5' high & about 10' forward to get away from it. My boys.....? Not Kali's pups, she taught all her boys well, but......my other boys.....especially Beckett....NO concern about where, or when, they go. Poop in the crate? Oh well, come clean me Mom! PIGS! Beckett has been pretty clean lately, but still will crap in the crate if he feels the urge.
Then we had the girls. Kali's evil girl pups. Lil' Bit will poop in her crate, pick it up & throw it out of her crate, then pee on the spot she pooped on, & then lay in it. She takes the cake for nastiest dog. And she does this if she's angry, like if she knows that we're taking dogs out & she's not the first to go. Maybe she gets worked up, then can't hold it....I don't know, but she's a piece of work!
And then there's Ansgar, since her surgery she passive pees, I don't know if she had nerve damage, or damage to her psyche, but she's a messy girl, too.
So, I have 1 dog with very clean habits, & 3 with not so clean habits****sigh****!
jackie harris

Nope there are some VERY dirty dogs out there!  I am used to Dobermans (all mine have been clean since babyhood no training required!) so it was a huge shock when I got my first Shepherd.  His kennel was smeared from top to bottom in poop. I swear he thought he was a finger painting master. Try as I might I could not keep his outdoor run clean.  It was nasty.  And then I got the dog from hell in for training!  See Lauras favorite thread.  It was a nightmare I hope does not soon repeat!!!!!!  if I was buying an adult i would definately ask about kennel and crate habits.  It would be a deal breaker for me.

You would think that since I have to clean a poopy crate that Brynjulf's thread wouldn't be funny anymore ....nope! It's still a classic. :)

I had a male GSD that had very dirty habits I got at a year old. He would pee into his dog house / crate before he would go into it. I would have to clean his crate / house before trying to put him in it, but to no avail he would do it again. As soon as he went into the crate / dog house he would crap in it then roll in the whole mess. He was in a large 20ft x 25ft kennel so he had plenty of room to potty in one area then play in the other. He kept his kennel perfectly clean because all his crap was in the dog house. He happily lay onto of all his warm crap.

I try giving him baths daily to teach him the pleasures of being clean, but nope he would quickly crap then roll in it after his bath.
Try removing his dog house from the kennel for a few hours at a time to stop this habit. He would hold it until I put it back in.
So I stop returning the house back in the kennel during the day. He starting going to the bathroom on his outdoor bed.
I removed his bed & toys from the kennel. He held it until it was time to go in at dusk then let it ripe in his crate.
I try keeping him outside all night too, which at first it seem it was going to help him. But guess he just help it all in for a day.
Then he started to go potty all in one area. He was actually clean for 1/2 a day! After that the potty area became his resting area too.

After 6 weeks of this I couldn't deal with the mess anymore & returned him to the breeder. Who said, O yeah he does the same thing his sire always did, loves to be around his own sh!t.

Funny how dogs are my bitch REFUSES to potty in any place BUT her home yard or inside her home if we miss her asking to go out :(. It is nice though since clearly we have Schutzhund field rules about that kind of thing. It was ever since she was a pup too, she would whine and whine and if you were on a walk she would cry we would get her home and she would run really, really fast to the back yard and let loose.

Ace, I use pine shavings in my kennel stalls which are six by ten. The shavings are in the back of the stall. Every one of my dogs pee and poop in the shavings. Several of them, after taking a dump, will push shavings with their nose all the way around the pile until it's completely covered, leaving a nice lump of shavings covered pile for me to scoop up. When they're outside in a yard, they will cover the pile with dirt. None of my dogs run though the poop before I come out to clean. I do be leave it has to do with training from the time they are about ten days old when they start leaving the nest to releave themselves. I give them a little place with pine shavings close by where they become conditioned to go potty. You need to pick up right away if the momma wants to clean up after them so she doesn't get a gut full of shavings, a little of it won't hurt her but she may get a loose stool getting a lot of savings in her gut. By the time the pups are weaned at five weeks they are clean enough not to pee or poop in a crate with out letting you know unequivocally they need to go.

Thanks everyone for chiming in.
LOL@THAT THREAD...I don't know how you kept your cool.

So do you all think some of it is genetic or temperament?