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Well Lily is now 9 months old, she was confined to the kitchen only when she wasn't being supervised until this week. I took the gates down on Thursday!!Yeah no walls for me to climb over to get in the kitchen. Those gates have been up for over a year and a half, because we got Lily right after my pomeraian was house broken, so I never took them down. This is like a freeing feeling to me, and Lily of course. I can't believe my family and I have been climbing those things for that long...I guess I had never thought about it till now. Anyway Lily is doing fabulous on having full run of the house. She loves all of the freedom, and she is on my heels where ever I go, along with my pomerania(my chi just sleeps all day). I do have to be vigilant about taking her out or she would probably have an accident, I don't think she has figured out how to let me know she needs to go out. When she was in the kitchen she sat at the gate and whined if she wanted to go out, so hopefully she will start looking at me or the door and whining when she needs to go out. I do have the potty bells which we have had since I got her, but none of my dogs use them, they have never gotten the hang of them. Any ideas on how to get them to use them? I just wanted to share with everyone how free I feel!!