IMO, the kitchen is too big for him to have run of while you're gone..what I would suggest is an xpen, this way, his bed or crate can be at one end, then his food, then the pee pad at the other end...whenever my first dog peed on the floor, I wiped it up like what you're doing, and then I put the pee on the pee pad, she never did pee on the kitchen floor after that again..
As far as the kitchen, the thing about letting him run in there, is that they can get ahold of cords(refrigerator) and ahold of molding, so, if they're in an xpen, they have more room, but yet, not a lot, and there is nothing they're going to be able to get hurt on.. |