[Baily341o]

Bailey took A LONG TIME to potty train. She was "potty trained" and would go outside, but she wouldn't tell us she needed to go. SO we confinded her only in the kitchen, and then she jumped the barrier, so then the we had to get a BIG barrier, and put a weight in front of it, and Bailey figured out how to move a 16lb. circle weight:/... SO sometimes we would come downstairs and she would be running around... BUT THE WORST: We would go into the kitchen, and there would be pee!!! GRR. She got in trouble. She didn't get full run until maybe she was 9-10 months old... maybe more. Now she gets full run, EXCEPT upstairs. There are way too many bedrooms for her to be getting in to, bathrooms, etc. She knows she's not allowed up here, and she sleeps in her kennel downstairs. She likes the darkness and quiteness.

The only time I will tolerate, not wanting her too, but tolerate is in the morning when I let her out and then everyone else gets up so if she hears someone else she might run up here and give them a wake up call. But then if I say down, she runs downstairs.

She has been really good about not waking up in the middle of the night, since a pup. She gets up at about 7-8 on weekends and we wake her up on weekdays.

I didn't want to use pup pads, because my friends dog used to rip up the pup pads and then pee next to them, and she would also "mistake" the pup pads for rugs... and that wasn't going to happen in my house because we have oriental rugs that are hard to clean. :-)