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Originally Posted by dawn27  I've been very successful with potty training and added my training tips and techniques to my site. The link is below hopefully there is something there that can help.
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Love your site Dawn and the information was great!! your dogs are beautiful too.
As far as house breaking Alexis I have found that it is really us in the beginning we need to realize that they have to do it correctly many times in order to get it right. Consistenency is the key.
I used an ex-pen set it up the elongated way and I put a bed at one end and the food and water in the middle and then a pee pad at the end. I would take Pixie out of the ex pen let play for about a hr and watch her the whole time if she started to sniff I would pick her up and put her on her on her pad and tell her go pee pee if she went I would jump up and down and say good girl you went pee pee on your pad. I would let her out of her ex pen again. If she didn't pee I would leave her in her pen until she did and then I would praise again. I did this over and over eventually I could leave the ex pen door open and she would run in and out and pee when she needed.l I would stay it took about 6 weeks for her to do this.
I never scolded I only praised when she did it right. If she had an accident I would give no reaction just clean it up bc it was basically my fault for slacking in the training dept. I guess if I got too confident and didn't keep a close eye on her. It is a lot of work but in the long run you will have a house broken dog and won't have a house that smells like pee
best of luck!!