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amanda350 · 09-21-2007, 04:18 PM

Ok, here is our day till now.. 6:30am I wake up to get my daughter ready for school.. the dogs sleep with me so I carry them with me to her room to wake her up and then we go to the back door. I set them down and say lets go outside and open the door. they run out and we go through the screen porch out the other door and down the steps to the grass.. (they have mastered this already) then once on the grass and since it is first thing in the morning, then they both go pee and poop. they get a treat for this and the neighbors get to see me look like i am having a seizure.. then we go back inside the back door and they walk about 10 ft to threir xpen. I go in first to motivate them to come in and once they do I say good job and set their food bowls down and step out. I leave them in there while I get my daughter ready to go,then before I take her to school I take them out again doing the same thing.. when I get her to school at 7:30 I come home and sit in the recliner and love on the pups anad watch tv until my 3yr old wakes up. then he and I take them outside again always following the same routine. then we come back in, they go in the xpen and I feed my son.. then after he is done eating we cuddle or play for about 30 minutes and then take them out again.. my youngest wakes up the latest at about 10 am and I feed her and play with her and then take them out again.. up until today, we barely ever used the crate.. the xpen was their den..oh, and Kallies crate is the smallest they make and it is to big for her.. i have fixed that tonight though, I put something in there to block the back of it..anyways, we do this all day every 30 minutes to an hour and they eat 3 times per day..they will go whenever they feel like it with no whining or barking or anything. It is hard sometimes to catch them in the act when they are in the xpen so that is why I started the crate today..we all go to bed about 10pm and they sleep with me and hold it all night until last night..one of them jumped off of my huge bed an pooped and then somehow got back on it.. my husband said no more sleeping in our bed.. what am I doing wrong?

09-21-2007, 04:18 PM	#5
amanda350 No Longer A Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 986	this is LONG....SORRY.. Ok, here is our day till now.. 6:30am I wake up to get my daughter ready for school.. the dogs sleep with me so I carry them with me to her room to wake her up and then we go to the back door. I set them down and say lets go outside and open the door. they run out and we go through the screen porch out the other door and down the steps to the grass.. (they have mastered this already) then once on the grass and since it is first thing in the morning, then they both go pee and poop. they get a treat for this and the neighbors get to see me look like i am having a seizure.. then we go back inside the back door and they walk about 10 ft to threir xpen. I go in first to motivate them to come in and once they do I say good job and set their food bowls down and step out. I leave them in there while I get my daughter ready to go,then before I take her to school I take them out again doing the same thing.. when I get her to school at 7:30 I come home and sit in the recliner and love on the pups anad watch tv until my 3yr old wakes up. then he and I take them outside again always following the same routine. then we come back in, they go in the xpen and I feed my son.. then after he is done eating we cuddle or play for about 30 minutes and then take them out again.. my youngest wakes up the latest at about 10 am and I feed her and play with her and then take them out again.. up until today, we barely ever used the crate.. the xpen was their den..oh, and Kallies crate is the smallest they make and it is to big for her.. i have fixed that tonight though, I put something in there to block the back of it..anyways, we do this all day every 30 minutes to an hour and they eat 3 times per day..they will go whenever they feel like it with no whining or barking or anything. It is hard sometimes to catch them in the act when they are in the xpen so that is why I started the crate today..we all go to bed about 10pm and they sleep with me and hold it all night until last night..one of them jumped off of my huge bed an pooped and then somehow got back on it.. my husband said no more sleeping in our bed.. what am I doing wrong?