Help! I have a wonderful 6 month old female Mastiff. We are struggling with house breaking recently. I crate trained her for about three weeks until she proved she could be trusted. She sleeps in my bedroom at night and has NEVER had an accident. During the day while I work, I keep her in the kitchen. The baby gates are double locked with bungi cords ( she learned how to open the baby gates). She goes all day and NEVER has an accident, however if I have to leave at night, and put her in the kitchen, she escapes. I have no idea how she does it because the gates are still double locked when I check them. I find it hard to believe my 60 some lb Mastiff can jump the gate. How is she doing this!! When she escapes, she is eliminating on the carpet, and doing some minor destruction. How do I stop this? Some people have suggested putting her back in the crate, but I would prefer not to do it. She has not been in a crate in over two months, I think this would confuse her? Any suggestions, I will take all the help I can get.

your dog is just lonely and maybe hears many noises outside and tries to go to them .. this happened to my dog her name is coco and what you have to do is do the thing you do in the day . Is there a place like a small room wher you can keep her ?

I know just how you feel. My daughter had the same problem with her puppy, Sam. I gave her a ebook from the website that I published and I'm in the process of building my own website and some of the content will be about dogs. Anyway, the ebook is "How To Potty Train Any Dog". My daughter applied some of the techniques from the book and says that it is really working. She wants me to find something on healthy food for dogs now. You can click onto the link below and give it a look. Hope it will help you also. If it does, please let me know.



How To Potty Train Any Dog

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You can try to train her crate at night, this helped me since I worked on graveyard shift before. I learned it from an article about crate training of dogs, here a small quote:

Put your dog in the crate using your regular command and a treat. Initially, it may be a good idea to put the crate in your bedroom or nearby in a hallway, especially if you have a puppy. Puppies often need to go outside to eliminate during the night, and you’ll want to be able to hear your puppy when he whines to be let outside. Older dogs, too, should initially be kept nearby so that crating doesn’t become associated with social isolation. Once your dog is sleeping comfortably through the night with his crate near you, you can begin to gradually move it to the location you prefer. Puppies that are healthy can have their water taken from them a few hours before bedtime to help decrease the frequency of potty trips they need to make during the night.

Hope you got an idea, train her since she' still puppy.