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MyRuby · 03-27-2008, 01:36 PM

Well, I have a 5.5month old little girl now and am also severely struggling with pad training. Some of you may remember from previous posts here back several months ago I sold a puppy here on YT because I wasn't able to train her and was *overwhelmed* by the demands of the pup and she was about the same age as my pup now and I thought that she should have been better trained by that age. Well, I felt very remorseful for selling the baby and didn't get over the guilt and after all she was just a BABY!!! So, I decided to make a FULL commmitment to another special little pup (we named her, accordingly, Gracie, that was our last one's name). I searched for weeks and found her, I wanted one to look the same and be similar in size because of other issues (my daughter who missed the dog terribly)- so in my daughter's eyes the dog is back from vacation. Well, essentially I got all I wished for because this puppy is not at ALL trained (the breeder claimed she was, but I know better!) just like the other one, and I think it is a bit of Karma

) but I am fully committed and will make it work one way or another.

Let me tell you what I am now trying and I am confident it will work someday because it seems to be a good idea I think. I definitely gave her much too much space in the beginning, like an entire living room with 2 pads, and she hit them like 50/50 and then she hit every other square foot of flooring on the lower level too

). So, I decided to take the aggressive approach and utilize kenneling. I put her in a small kennel where she has a tiny little bed, she cannot walk, just stand up, turn around, and lay down. Right outside the kennel door is her pee pad on a tray. I keep her in the kennel with the door closed. I try to keep an eye on when she eats and am learning her patterns (we've only had her over a month). When she has napped for a while and then wakes up, I open the door so she can access her pad. The pad is inside a man-made x-pen, there is NO other floor space than the pad, so she has no options on where to potty except her bed or the pad. I will stand and watch her until she goes, then praise the bugeezus out of her and then, and only then, let her out for supervised play, only about an hour and then I put her back in the kennel and close the door- so she has to learn to hold it that way. It's kinda working, but the MOMENT she has an urge to go, she will absolutely have an accident. I have nicknamed her "the excretor" because it seems like all she does is go potty! I am hoping that she is still too much of a baby yet and it will just take a few good months of this and she will get the hang. If I put her in an x-pen to play, she will still just pee and poop wherever, even if there are 2 pads in there. Again, I think this is karma biting me in the butt. Very funny thing, karma!! Press on, at least they are cute!!!

03-27-2008, 01:36 PM	#11
MyRuby Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Illinois Posts: 26	Well, I have a 5.5month old little girl now and am also severely struggling with pad training. Some of you may remember from previous posts here back several months ago I sold a puppy here on YT because I wasn't able to train her and was overwhelmed by the demands of the pup and she was about the same age as my pup now and I thought that she should have been better trained by that age. Well, I felt very remorseful for selling the baby and didn't get over the guilt and after all she was just a BABY!!! So, I decided to make a FULL commmitment to another special little pup (we named her, accordingly, Gracie, that was our last one's name). I searched for weeks and found her, I wanted one to look the same and be similar in size because of other issues (my daughter who missed the dog terribly)- so in my daughter's eyes the dog is back from vacation. Well, essentially I got all I wished for because this puppy is not at ALL trained (the breeder claimed she was, but I know better!) just like the other one, and I think it is a bit of Karma ) but I am fully committed and will make it work one way or another. Let me tell you what I am now trying and I am confident it will work someday because it seems to be a good idea I think. I definitely gave her much too much space in the beginning, like an entire living room with 2 pads, and she hit them like 50/50 and then she hit every other square foot of flooring on the lower level too ). So, I decided to take the aggressive approach and utilize kenneling. I put her in a small kennel where she has a tiny little bed, she cannot walk, just stand up, turn around, and lay down. Right outside the kennel door is her pee pad on a tray. I keep her in the kennel with the door closed. I try to keep an eye on when she eats and am learning her patterns (we've only had her over a month). When she has napped for a while and then wakes up, I open the door so she can access her pad. The pad is inside a man-made x-pen, there is NO other floor space than the pad, so she has no options on where to potty except her bed or the pad. I will stand and watch her until she goes, then praise the bugeezus out of her and then, and only then, let her out for supervised play, only about an hour and then I put her back in the kennel and close the door- so she has to learn to hold it that way. It's kinda working, but the MOMENT she has an urge to go, she will absolutely have an accident. I have nicknamed her "the excretor" because it seems like all she does is go potty! I am hoping that she is still too much of a baby yet and it will just take a few good months of this and she will get the hang. If I put her in an x-pen to play, she will still just pee and poop wherever, even if there are 2 pads in there. Again, I think this is karma biting me in the butt. Very funny thing, karma!! Press on, at least they are cute!!!