[Sunnydayz]

So I'm trying to give Gizmo more area of the house, so he has more room to play, and am now trying to start let him upstairs, which is all carpet. First try 2 days ago he had a poop accident and totally missed the potty pad, I have one in each room. Today I decided to try again, he was doing great and pooped on one of the pads upstairs, came to get me so I could go see, and I gave him a treat and tons of praise. Well then skip ahead about another hour, and he had come back down after chasing the kitties and playing with toys, and he came up and just laid next to me on the couch. He always does this when he knows he's guilty of something, so I went to check, and sure enough, he had peep on the carpet right next to the bed in the spare room.

I had just been giving him one more room at a time, expanding his space so he would not be overwhelmed with all the extra room. I also made sure there was a potty pad no matter where he was, so he would see it and know where to go. He never has accidents downstairs as its all hard floors, so carpet is new to him. I'm wondering how I break him from peeing on the carpet once he has already done it once. With the poop accident, I reprimanded him and put the poop on the pad when he missed the other day, and he did his poop well today on the pad up there, but how do you deal with pee on the carpet? I cleaned it with the natures miracle marks no more, but now I'm afraid of letting him back up there, afraid he will do it again somewhere else :-( I have my staircase blocked off, but I can't do that forever because I have 3 cats, and as it is now 2 of them only come down at night to eat and do their business, while Gizmo is sleeping in his pen. Any advice on how to stop the peeing on carpet? He's only done it once but I want to try to redirect him to his pad before he does it again. We have shag carpet that is very long so I really have to search to find it :-( any and all advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much in advance.