To the point that it's causing great big problems for everyone, not just her.
She has fouled the area under our bed - poops there regularly. I can take her out for an hour and she will not poop, then if I let her loose she will beeline (zoomie!) to under the bed and poop. This morning she pooped like a CHAMP outside at 5:30 and I praised her like she cured the common cold AND gave her a treat immediately while praising and I will be darned if she didn't save three tiny pooplets for under the bed.
She is peeing under there too. I can't see it... but I am VERY confident that she is and therefore need to evacuate my husband from the house and get the Stanley Steemer people in there stat.
I got the tough love lecture from Dr. Brian yesterday and at bedtime (9:30) put her in the crate with a blanket and safe toys and told her goodnight and closed the door to the crate, then to the living room and went to bed.
It was horrific. She squealed at a decibel level and pitch that only other dogs should be able to hear. My teeth literally hurt. She was up and whining and screeching ALL NIGHT - I got up at 2 am to take her out to potty as she is still a baby with that tiny bladder and NO potty occurred.
I quietly with no fuss returned her to the crate where she picked up right where she left off.
There was a conversation, which did NOT go well, about 3 and I got up to "do something with that **** dog" - I let her out of the crate and lay on the couch where she immediately sighed and went to sleep.
I understand that she needs to learn but in spite of her tiny terror diva-ness, I think she was scared to death.
All bad at my house. All bad, y'all. I have read D for D three times and I think the problem is that she has not read it yet. We have been outside playing for HOURS to get her worn down and it's just not happening.
Help. It's really bad. I don't want to get to "the dog has got to go," because as we know THAT would not go well at all.
She is at work with me now. We have been here seven minutes and she is curled up in her doggie bed fast asleep like an angel.