285. Pooped between newspapers and sleeping area

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Black English Cocker Spaniel, male, 4 months old, 3rd vaccination, 7 days with owners.
Early 50s father and daughter early 20s. Crate with door and pee pan below. Newspapers put on floor of crate but shredded. Newspapers on left side.

It was the last case on Saturday, Apr 9, 06.

Complaints:
1. Likes to shred newspapers. Common complaint. Hard to resolve.
2. Poops between shreded newspapers and sleeping area. Busy at work. Not enough change of soiled newspapers.
3. Puts puppy in bathroom for 15-30 minutes after meals.
He will hold his urine and stools till he is put back into the crate. No fixed schedule. No smell inside the bathroom. Owners used newspapers and a commercial pungent spray. No effect on puppy's toilet training.
Best to use smell of puppy's urine. But this needs a fixed schedule of doing the same daily. Consistency is important.

4. When owners go near puppy's crate, puppy excited. Jumps and steps on stools.
"Why not let me come out from the door?" I asked. Owner said that the door is locked as part of toilet training to confine the puppy. How to resolve this stepping on stools problem? Probably, 7 days are too early for the puppy to be clean.

5. Puppy does not pee or poop on sleeping area. That is normal "keeping the den clean" behaviour of all puppies given a space to rest.

Correct urine smell is important. 24-hour training is important but not possible. Puppy shreds newspapers. Hard to resolve this problem.