Help!! Pottying in bed!!

[Narcissa's Mommy 32]

Recently Narcissa has started to sleep with me. She did fine for about a week but now she is pottying in my bed! She does it on the side we don't sleep on so I know she knows what she is doing and she can get down on her own....please help me fix this! 

[Crinkly 15,586]

I would say that she is leaving the area where she sleeps (your side of the bed) and going away (to the other side of the bed) to do her business.  Which is a natural instinct.  The trick will be teaching her that your 'bed' actually extends to fill the whole house, except for where she is allowed to go to the toilet.

Is it a wee or a poo?  Dioes she do it at a particular time?  Does she go outside during the day, to go to the toilet?  Does she ask to do so?  Does she use puppy pads indoors?  Have you crated her?  Does she wee/poo inside the crate?

 

 

[Pawz4me 6,802]

Tell us your usual routine for pottying -- does she go outside or use pee pads?  And remind us how old she is?  Before she started sleeping with you was she crated at night?

Is she going more frequently during the day?

My guess is there are two possibilities.  The most likely is that she isn't fully house trained.  Going on the other side of the bed is in no way an indication that "she knows what she's doing."  Given any choice at all, no puppy over a few weeks old will urinate or defecate right in their sleeping or eating area.  It's instinctual for them not to do that.  And to her your bed is huge (HUGE).  So if she goes on the side she doesn't sleep on to her that's kind of like going on the other side of town. The second possibility is that she has a urinary tract infection.  But if that were the case she'd be going a lot more frequently all the time, not just at night.

Assuming she was being crated at night, you may have to go back to that for awhile until she's fully house trained.