Breny~ that's good info about the oxyclean...I've got 2 cats and one is always "urping". I'm going to try that in the bottle...great idea
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Kathryn, I know this won't make you feel much better, but Max will do the same thing sometimes...I leave the back sliders open a lot of the time if I'm home, just so he can run out to the back if he wants. And he's very good first thing in the morning or just after he's fed in the morning (I free feed dry and give him 1/6 cup of canned morning and evening), but if I leave the guest room door open....I ALWAYS find a pee spot or he's pooped. Luckily, with the diet he's on, his poops are really dry most of the time, so easy to pick up. But it's so annoying when he KNOWS to go outside, and has easy access to go outside, but chooses for some reason to go in the guest room. He did the same thing at the last house we were in.....I don't know if it's b/c other dogs have been in there or what, but I also just noticed that he 'marked' one of the blankets I have covering the sofa in the cat's room
. Very annoying. I know that when we first took him up to the Napa Valley (Christmas time) it was so cold and rainy, which he wasn't used to and he was NOT happy to have to go potty outside where it was cold and wet! We were staying with my mom and stepdad (who has ADD, I think) and I told him to be sure he closed all the bedroom doors so that Max couldnt' get in there first thing in the morning...so what does he do? He left the office door open and of course, Max ran in there (he was so little then, and so fast, LOL), pooped, and ran back out like nothing had gone on....but of course...WHO steps in it? My stepdad
. We almost died laughing over that. Well he DID have socks on, but he was horrified. I'm sorry...I'm a nurse, that stuff is unpleasant, but not the end of the world, LOL. Well, one end, I guess
Hope you can get the girls trained; I'm still working on it. They say not to scold them, and I can understand if you're gone FOREVER and they HAVE to go, but it's really aggravating when you take them out, stay out for a long time and then they just wait til they're somewhere soft and warm to do their business! On one hand, can you blame them? On the other hand......??????? Good luck. Keep us posted!