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Originally Posted by sondra2004  You need to confined him to a small area at first such as a ex-pen or maybe in a gated kitchen.He need to learn where the potty place is. Right now he is confused.Only let him out when you are home . |
Great advice.
X-pen, kitchen, bathroom, large crate, anywhere confined so that HE can learn. Not only that, but as an added benefit, his mess when you come home is suddenly confined. Once he learns that "this is my kitchen, that's my food and water over there, here's my blankets and there's my toys, and I'm going to pee and poop over there to keep it away from everything else"... then expand.
Once he has more room (or is out to play or something), if he has an accident, put a pee pad there so that he knows pee goes on the pee pad. When we were training Pixie, it wasn't uncommon for us to have 3-4 pee pads around the apartment when she was out. And when she'd go back to that same spot to pee, there'd be a pad there. And we ONLY let her out when we were there to supervise. Otherwise, she stayed crated. We tried the kitchen bit, but between them, Preston chewed on the walls and Pixie pulled the wallpaper off
Now, she's 1, potty trained, and has run of the apartment all the time unless she does something and deserves to be crated (She can be spiteful - She's been known to jump in your lap if she's pissed at you and pee all over you)....