He's almost 8 months old and has been potty trained inside and out sine he was about 3 months old. He's never had an accident on the pad while he's been downstairs. I tried a couple months ago to allow more space upstairs before he was neutered, and he had a couple accidents at that time up there, when I just gave him the hallway and one bedroom, but I figured now he's a couple months older and fixed, that I would try again. Like I said the first day he had the one poop accident, I corrected him and today e pooped on the pad up there, so I had a Gizmo party with lots of praise and a treat. Then he had the pee accident an hour later. I'm wondering if he distinguishes the difference of peeing and pooping :-( last time I tried he had a poop accident but no pee accident, then today it was the opposite. I am totally confused. It's easy to pickup the poop and put it on the pad to show him where it goes, I'm lost as how to show him the pee goes on there lol. He always pees on the pad downstairs but he seems to not know the difference upstairs between the pad and the carpet when it comes to peeing. I think he might have tried to lift his leg when he did it because it was so close to the bed that has a quilt that hags down. I just wish I could figure out how to get him to know the difference between the pads and the carpet.
Downstairs I have a large throw rug on my hardwood floor and he never mistakes that between the pad. I think it's the longer shag carpet up there that is confusing him? |