After 5 months, I just put my rugs back into my living room! I put the rugs down before the weekend, so that I knew that I could watch my puppy like a hawk. Sure enough, within 5 minutes, he peed on the rug. I was immediately on him, said, "no!" "bad," and carried him over to his pee pee pad and said "potty." He peed on the rug again later that day, and I did the same thing. Almost a week later, and he hasn't peed on the rug since! And he's home alone all day, but still uses his pad when I'm gone (or at least it seems like he does
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