The first answer is, don't let him on that carpet. Period. He's learned a bad habit and if you let him keep up with it, it will just reinforce it. CLean the carpet with Nature's Miracle and don't let him in that room again for a long while.
I suggest trying a crate inside an xpen with pee pads. Keep the pen small and line it with pee pads. Keep him crated for a few hours, then let him out into the pen. If he goes praise him and give him a treat. If not, back into the crate he goes. Ten minutes later, repeat the process. The first day you may think he's never going to go and he'll never come out again. Don't worry. Just keep with it. He'll eventually have to go. Then make the biggest deal out of it and give him lots of love and some free time. Free time should not be in the room with his old "potty" carpet. It should be very supervised.
Then repeat, back into the crate and so on. The first few days are time consuming and you may feel like he's spending a lot of time crated. Just make sure that his free time is fun and that he gets some good exercise, and he'll be just fine. Crate time is like naptime to a pup.
He will learn to potty right when he comes out of his crate, b/c he knows he gets playtime when he does. He will also learn to potty only on his pee pads, because you are giving him no other choice.
Keep that up for at least two weeks, with the limited and very carefully watched free time. Then you can make your xpen a little bigger and keep the pee pads the same size, so you add some floor into the mix (hopefully linoleum or tile or something easy to clean up ). If he continues to use the pee pads and leaves the floor clean you can tell he is getting the idea. If he has an accident on the floor, go back to a smaller size with only pee pads for another two weeks or so, then try again. |