| Pixie is a little thing being that young. Look at how little she eats. That just shows you how small their tummys are. So their bladders are even smaller. Our Missy is only 14 weeks old.
Try "tethering" her to you with a leash. Don't give her the run of the house! She's wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too young for that. Yesterday Missy went about 4 hours before she had to go out to pee. That compared to about 5 accidents if she had been in the kitchen with free rein. We've had good luck with Missy attached to me.
Shoot before, we were taking her out about every hour. I started to think about how she goes all night for 8 hours. So I said to myself, girl we're going for 3 hours in the day and its working being tethered. But we're home during the day as we're retired.
I didn't like the idea of putting her in the crate because she cried so much and she uses that when we have to leave for awhile. I thought "there has got to be another way that will make both of us happy!" Tethering was the answer for me.
I was like you. I wanted her by me and I knew that to lick this problem we have to do something that we all like AND something to help STRETCH her bladder so she can hold it longer. That's the main goal for us.
Good luck! |