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Originally Posted by dalnna  Today, I'm recommitting to potty training. I've put them both in one of those 6 sided fences along with a bowl of water and their beds. Lucy is fine with it, just sleeping, Abbie is barking continueously. I'm taking them outside every couple of hours and then throwing the ball for a bit when they come back inside. I just don't know what else to do. I'm at my wits end eith them. HHHHEEEEELLLLLPPPP!!!! |
I suggest that you give them water three times a day on a schedule. Don't give any food or water 3.5 hours before going to bed. Penny is getting food and water in the morning and evening and water in the middle of the day.
I have learned here, and very good advice it has been, to slowly expand her "free territory" as she proves herself. At first she was crated or "lapped" at first until she did business on the pad. Once she got the pad down 80%, we let her out and watched her in a small area of my office.
Oh, treats are an absolute must during training. Penny is like Thor, she will even fake us for a treat.
That means she knows that when she goes on the pad she gets a treat, so she goes on the pad almost all the time. Yesterday she did not have one accident!
Many have said that you should not expand their territory until they have been consistent in the area they have been confined in for a good while. I think that must be true, because after she just got a reward for potty and poop on the pad in my office, I sometimes let her run around the house. She will often potty somewhere else within minutes, even though there IS a pad in the room that she went on the floor in.
We are looking for some inexpensive gates so that we can work on training her in the kitchen too. At least that way she could have two rooms to be trained in, and eventually we are going to have the Pet Loo we are getting located in the kitchen.