Hello. We've have a 10 week old female shih tzu puppy that we have had for 2 weeks. She has settled right in. However, she seems to be weeing a lot when she is outside her crate / playpen.
She happily wees outside but will often wee several times in the space of a few minutes. Not huge amounts. We praise her and give her treats but not every time. If she's in the house and out of her playpen she will wee on the carpet or rug, even when she's just done it outside. We tell her no and will either take her outside again or put her back in her playpen.
For the first few days she was kept in her crate but when we let her out she was constantly weeing on the carpet and it didn't feel right to keep putting her back in her crate. So now we have a playpen where she has more room to play. She wees in there sometimes but not as frequently. It seems she can hold it in when she wants to but for whatever reason she chooses not to when she's out her playpen.
She has only ever had a poo in the house twice on the first two days we had her and only does this outside now.
Any advice? Is this fairly normal? We don't have a great amount of experience with shih tzus so we are doing our best based on the research we've done online. She's at the vets this week for her second lot of jabs so we will be sure to mention it in case there is a problem.
She happily wees outside but will often wee several times in the space of a few minutes. Not huge amounts. We praise her and give her treats but not every time. If she's in the house and out of her playpen she will wee on the carpet or rug, even when she's just done it outside. We tell her no and will either take her outside again or put her back in her playpen.
For the first few days she was kept in her crate but when we let her out she was constantly weeing on the carpet and it didn't feel right to keep putting her back in her crate. So now we have a playpen where she has more room to play. She wees in there sometimes but not as frequently. It seems she can hold it in when she wants to but for whatever reason she chooses not to when she's out her playpen.
She has only ever had a poo in the house twice on the first two days we had her and only does this outside now.
Any advice? Is this fairly normal? We don't have a great amount of experience with shih tzus so we are doing our best based on the research we've done online. She's at the vets this week for her second lot of jabs so we will be sure to mention it in case there is a problem.