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Originally Posted by Sookie  Kalina is 6 1/2 months old. She is 100% potty trained. I have to say that I am lucky in that someone is always with her and that definitely helped. We crate trained her. Took her directly from the crate to the back yard. When she peed or pood we would praise her. Before she peed we would say "C'mon and be a good girl" in the same tone of voice we used when we said "Good Girl" after she peed. Sounds crazy, but it worked for us.
She is on the raw food diet, so she doesn't poo as much as other diets. She always does her poo first thing in the morning. She sleeps from 8PM (was 10PM but she goes to bed earlier now) until 7AM. She sleeps on a chair next to my bed and wakes me up every morning like a little alarm clock with a cold nose in my ear. I take her out and she does everything.
I would say in the last month she holds her water a LOT longer than she used to. I can leave her totally alone now in the house and she's not a problem. I do put her in the crate when I have to go out for a longer period of time.
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I agree, you monitor them and take them out when they are young every 20 to 30minutes. My other dog is nearly 6 months and he is 95% trained, he scratched me or the door to go out. Now IF I ignore that que and he does a doodoo on the floor, it is MY fault. I intend to do the same with my Yorkie when I get him this weekend. I think all dogs are hard to train if there is no consistency and the people are at work. I am home 24/7 with this other puppy and he has not had an accident deliberately in about 5 weeks
