How to successfully move with a chow?
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:01 am
Hi everyone,
Does anyone have any advice on how to successfully move to a new home without stressing your chow? I am the proud owner of Thor, a 9-month old neutered chow chow. I just bought a new house, and have spent two nights in it. In our previous apartment, Thor did not have any bathroom issues. He was a very good boy and always alerted me to take him outside. He loves routine and I am worried that the move is really stressing him. He was left alone for four hours yesterday (no cage, free to roam the house) and I am thinking the cage-less abandon of him wasn't a good idea because when I came home he had taken a poop in the living room.
He has free access to the yard whenever he wants, and I don't think he desperately needed to poop while I was gone and couldn't hold it (he is a pretty good holder). Do you think the empty house that he didn't know really stressed him? Should I crate him again? He pooped again in the same spot while I was sleeping last night. I don't know what to do, other than put up a gate so he can't access the living room, which leads me to think he will just go poop somewhere else. How do I stop the pooping??? I want him to enjoy our new home too, but not by pooping all over it!I will be spending the entire weekend keeping him company and helping him get acquainted, but I would LOVE some advice that anyone may have.
Thanks!!
Does anyone have any advice on how to successfully move to a new home without stressing your chow? I am the proud owner of Thor, a 9-month old neutered chow chow. I just bought a new house, and have spent two nights in it. In our previous apartment, Thor did not have any bathroom issues. He was a very good boy and always alerted me to take him outside. He loves routine and I am worried that the move is really stressing him. He was left alone for four hours yesterday (no cage, free to roam the house) and I am thinking the cage-less abandon of him wasn't a good idea because when I came home he had taken a poop in the living room.
He has free access to the yard whenever he wants, and I don't think he desperately needed to poop while I was gone and couldn't hold it (he is a pretty good holder). Do you think the empty house that he didn't know really stressed him? Should I crate him again? He pooped again in the same spot while I was sleeping last night. I don't know what to do, other than put up a gate so he can't access the living room, which leads me to think he will just go poop somewhere else. How do I stop the pooping??? I want him to enjoy our new home too, but not by pooping all over it!I will be spending the entire weekend keeping him company and helping him get acquainted, but I would LOVE some advice that anyone may have.
Thanks!!