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Zoiesmom11 · 08-21-2006, 08:11 AM

My 8 month old Zoie is doing pretty good now with potty training. I take her out alot to the backyard and she has been getting free run of the house most of the time, if she's inside, but we keep her in the backyard alot in the morning and at night when she seems to poop the most! She still will do her peeing in the kids play room which is downstairs....but she likes to take her poop to my bathroom (upstairs) or to another room if that's too inconvenient. Her favorite places to use the bathroom seem to be the playroom or my bathroom, I have to clean up at least 3-4 spots in the playroom a week. We do crate her if we are running upstairs and aren't sure whether she's used the bathroom lately or not.
My husband wants to prohibit upstairs from her, which is fine, but with me being home all day and with a kid or two all day, it's not practical to put a gate there if I'm running laundry up or the kids are playing upstairs.
My question is what to do since she has Picked rooms that she feels she should use the bathroom in. She sometimes will come straight inside and run upstairs to poop on my bathroom floor!!!!!!!!! Like she thinks this is what she should do??? IDEAS?????

08-21-2006, 08:11 AM	#1
Zoiesmom11 Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Missouri Posts: 181	Potty training still...........what about? My 8 month old Zoie is doing pretty good now with potty training. I take her out alot to the backyard and she has been getting free run of the house most of the time, if she's inside, but we keep her in the backyard alot in the morning and at night when she seems to poop the most! She still will do her peeing in the kids play room which is downstairs....but she likes to take her poop to my bathroom (upstairs) or to another room if that's too inconvenient. Her favorite places to use the bathroom seem to be the playroom or my bathroom, I have to clean up at least 3-4 spots in the playroom a week. We do crate her if we are running upstairs and aren't sure whether she's used the bathroom lately or not. My husband wants to prohibit upstairs from her, which is fine, but with me being home all day and with a kid or two all day, it's not practical to put a gate there if I'm running laundry up or the kids are playing upstairs. My question is what to do since she has Picked rooms that she feels she should use the bathroom in. She sometimes will come straight inside and run upstairs to poop on my bathroom floor!!!!!!!!! Like she thinks this is what she should do??? IDEAS?????