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Originally Posted by Sarah515  Ella is doing fairly well with her pee pads. I have them in her xpen and I'd say she uses them about 85-90% of the time. Now if I just had the pad by the door or something, it would be another story, but she is only 13 weeks old.
Here is my problem...she sleeps in her crate at night and the past couple mornings I get her out and take her to her xpen to potty after about 5 hours of sleeping. I usually hear her kind of crying bc my hubby is already up to go to work, so I wake up. Well, when I take her back to her crate, her blankets are wet, right by the door. I don't know if she is peeing on her way out of the crate, or if she has peed earlier on before waking me up. Also, the other day I was at my mom's and Ella would not go on her pad and we were about to leave so I just put her in her crate since we only live 5 minutes away and that way she could just go at home. Well the minute I put her in there she squatted and peed right on her blanket.
Lucy NEVER peed in her crate as a puppy. I am just stumped. I also trained Lucy to go outside, no pee pads, but now I live in an apartment and Ella has not had all of her shots, so pee pad it is.
Is there confusion with the blankets because she uses the pee pads? She also peed once on her blanket in her xpen even though her pad was in there. Now she doesn't have blankets in either bc I don't have a single clean one. I feel bad not having something for her to lay on though.
Any advice? |
She is still really young, I had to put Joey in a very small overnight crate, and get him up, or should I say he got me up every two hours, and I would place him on the pad and back in his crate. When he was in the larger crate he just would pee by the door of the crate. Bladders are still very small at this age. Some people say that the overnight crate should be big enough for them to turn around in and stand, no bigger, if kept next to your bed you will hear them when they first cry. Dogs don't wish to pee where they sleep, and won't do it unless they really really have to go.