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Originally Posted by VACowboy  Thank you all for your reply, I was shocked myself that she has picked up so quickly but I think what I heard read on the boards is the more consistent you are with your routine the quicker they will pick up so essentially I took that to heart and it has seem to work, well here ya go, yesterday I actually setup the play ring or whatever you call it, had her little bed in there, few toys, no food or water, and a couple puppy pads.
I came home and uh huh, she managed to get out, I think she realized the plastic gates bend so she pushed and than wiggled, I walked around the house, she heard me came down the steps and was happy and acted like nothing was wrong, As I looked around nothing had been chewed, except for a napkin left on the floor upstairs, this made me laugh because I realized it was my fault for not securing the area enough, so I could not punish her not that she would know why she was punished.
But with everything I said at the start of this thread, not a single drop on pee or poop anywhere.....Strange? don't you think? and than when I took down the gate she ran over to the potty pads immediately and pee'd.
So maybe it is me keeping her in the cage too long, but one thing I will try to do is limit the amount of water she is drinking, actually measure it out, because I have one of those dog water things where its a big bottle that keeps refilling the dish, maybe need to take that away cause possibly as I am eating breakfast and running around she could be drinking away.
Thanks for the feedback I will keep you updated. |
Please don't limit the water she's drinking, you are actually doing really well on her housebreaking, she is going to make mistakes, but limiting water isn't a good way to help train her. When she drinks water and holds this for a while, it actually stretches the bladder a little, and this helps her learn to hold it longer. So the idea is to gradually allow her to hold it longer, and this will come with time. Limiting water can actually cause a bladder infection, and then they can't hold their urine for long at all.