It was much easier to train Joey to use a pee pad in an area with no carpet. Since your grandma's house had no carpet she found it easy to find a place to go. Your mother's house may look like your house to you, but it doesn't to her, the smells are probably entirely different, dogs are smell oriented, not sight oriented. Furthermore, if your mother has other dogs who have used the carpeting before, she would want to go wherever they went. Any source of protein will attract them to that spot, urine, feces, and food smells will attract them to that spot. For her age, your little girl is doing remarkably well. |