I, too, agree with the above posters. Your unsuccessful attempts previously to train a puppy may have been that you were not completely cleaning up the previous accidents and the puppy kept going back there because of the odors it picked up. You need to use an enzyme cleaner, or else any dog will go back to that area.
Instead of an X-pen, I used an old baby's pack-n-play that I had. I put down a little comfy bed on one side and lined the other side with a peepad. I put her food and water down by the side the bed was on. I kept the pack-n-play in the living room with us and she always felt part of the family. Slowly, when I transferred her into the laundry room, I put a gate up to portions of the house that I did not want her to go to. She was 100% pee pad trained by the time she was 8 months old.
I wish you a lot of luck - and really you can't fully start training her until she is about 4 months old.
Good luck to you. |