WOW, I kinda feel bad now. I huff and puff quitely while cleaning Meeko's over-flow. You see, Meeko is definately 100% trained. He is crated during the day (or anytime we leave the house). He NEVER goes potty in his "room". We kept him on a strict schedule of always making him go potty as soon as he gets out. Usually, he will run around like a mad man for about 2 or 3 minutes but then runs directly to his pad. He actually has us trained as well. ANYTIME he "goes", he will come to tell us literally. He will either paw at one of us or he will do this little sneezy thing to get your attention. This all means, "hey, I did something good. Go see! and give me a carrot!" He also knows that the deal is, we have to SEE it on the pad. This is because sometimes Mr. Meeko tries to play you into thinking he did something and should receive a carrot. Most of the time, he will follow us to the pad to double check for himself. Although sometimes he will just go ahead to the kitchen rug and wait for us to give him his carrot. By the way, he only gets carrots when he goes on his pad. I give him other goodies as treats for all other things.
Here is our only problem with Meeko's potty habits... he sometimes hikes his leg to much and misses the pad. You can't get mad at him cause he did go to the pad and he doesn't realize that he has missed. I don't know what to do about this. Its driving me crazy. I am trying to invent something that gives him more of a border guideline. He also starts going poo on his pad but spins around so much that he begins to wander off of it just as things fall to the floor. So in this case, "things" are not exactly ON the pad but just a few inches off.
Oh, Meeko will be 2 on the 24th of this month. |