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My roommate's 3 year old housebroken male chihuahua has started pooping indoors immediately after being let in from outside. The dog defecates in the spare room. His awareness that he is not to poop inside is obvious by him hunkering down and "guilty look", which is what got our attention to identify the pattern indicating when he was pooping inside. To get him to stop wouldn't we need to know what is causing this? We want help getting this behavior to stop.
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Answered By Jennifer Summerfield, DVM CPDT-KA
Veterinarian, Certified Dog Trainer
Published on April 5th, 2017