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Originally Posted by Bnot

Lots of time and patience is all I can say.

I got a puppy last August, and in the past month, she finally quit peeing on the carpet. Thats 5 months to get this far with pee! We still have to work on the poo though.

Bless you for taking this poor girl in! No telling what she went through before you had her.

I do think its possible to train her though. Go back to basics, like training a puppy. Confine to one room with no carpet, or an x-pen till she knows that she either needs to go outside, or a pee pad. Crate at night, as bad as I know you hate to do this.

I feel it can, and will happen, as you sound very dedicated to doing whatever it takes for it to happen. It just will take time, and hard work to make it happen.

I know its hard to learn to share time between 2, when you've had 1 for a while. I had Adonis 5 years before I got Venus. So I wasn't used to "sharing his quality time" either. But it did work out. Both feel very loved now.

I don't know about the Target where you live, but yesterday mine had a clearance on baby gates. I try to keep Venus in the kitchen with me most of the day. I got a metal one for $12.98 there. All their baby gates were marked down! Sure looks better than the plywood I was using! And it also has a remote control to unlock, and another push button that goes on the wall to unlock it.

Good luck with this and again, bless you for taking that poor girl in!

I had one of those baby gates when My daughter was little and loved it