Ringo your advice has helped me a lot!
Luna is great about going where she should go, she would always and still does immediately go when taken outside, and always use her pee pads when confined aloned. Yes, I do leave her in her area or crate when we aren't home. I will never let her roam the house alone, not only because she may have some accidents but also for her safety.
Remember, the reason why I switched from taking her outside was because we would forget to walk her often, so she would go inside and we wouldn't realize it till much later. Now with the wee wee pads she goes on them when in her confined area BUT (my biggest problem!!) if we don't redirect her with enough time, she will go inside, anywhere.
I'm taking all of your suggestions and trying so very hard to do my best by taking what I can to make this modified to work best for Luna and I.
I must tell you something. Today, I noticed that Luna doesn't eat alone. I realized that it's not necessarily the dry food, because I placed some in my hand and she will eat right out of it, but when I leave it in the bowl, even if I'm next to her, she will not eat it. For today I sat with her through her lunch and fed her... I'm trying to see if it's the bowl she doesn't like or she just really wants to be fed. I really hope I don't baby her into this because there will be times where I probably cannot do that. But I felt so bad for her because she really hasn't been eating much lately, today she hadnt had anything for breakfast or last night's dinner. Either way, the point I wanted to make is that as I finished feeding her, I told her to "get busy" and pointed to her pee pads. She went on them, but started to whimper a little as if she wanted something. I was so confused, I couldn't tell what she wanted. Then she stood in front of the shower glass and did the same thing...as soon as I opened it she started sniffing like crazy!! So I took the moment and put the pee pad inside and there she went!! Pee and Poo!! then TREATS AND PRAISES followed!!
Now, I don't want to count my victories but I'm going to try this technique every afternoon. Slowly showing her that she has to eat, then potty, then play. I may try the leashing technique for the night time where I'm most busy doing school work...other times when I'm just relaxing I gate off the computer room area and let her run around with her toys (of course with me in the room). She absolutely loves it, because she jumps on the couch and throws her toys from the couch down and starts to "hunt" them...it's adorable! Funniest is when she looses a toy and finds that it's stuck in between the couch...she starts to bark our of frustration because she cant get it...
anyhow, I will contain myself from speaking anymore...LOL I'm on a rolll...
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