I am so happy for you. These success stories give us hope! Penny is getting spayed on Wednesday, I am in the same scary boat as you.

I've heard that s/n can affect potty training too, but if they learned it once, they'll get back on track that much more quickly.

DAY THREE!! YEA!! Poop on potty pad.. She is so proud of herself!

I never though I would be so obsessed about poop:D
I am glad I have you-all, because anyone else would think I am a nut! LOL

Ha ha. It's so exciting once they get it, isn't it? Congrats to both of you! :thumbup:

LMAO! I completely understand... it's amazing how much your life has to start revolving around poops and pee during potty training. To this day, I still have the occasional nightmare that Nikko has an accident, and I wake up panicked only to find him happily asleep, completely unaware of the impact he's made on my conscious and subconscious mind... how my brain is still struggling to recover from those torturous potty training days. :rolleyes:

Lauren & Nikko

Well, Thor is on Day 30, or Day 2, depending on how you look at it. :rolleyes:

He has not pottied in my apartment in thirty days, which is great, and obviously the most important thing. Unfortunately, he peed in my office the other day. The silver lining is that I did catch him in the act and correct him. The dark, stormy cloud is that he made a tiny puddle before I caught him.

He's definitely made a lot of progress; he knows what the pads are for, and he uses them, even at my office. However, he clearly doesn't have the idea that he should ONLY use a pad indoors, no matter where the indoors happens to be.

I also still have boxes up in parts of my apartment. He's been banned from my bedroom for two months now. I've given him partial access, but I don't think he's taken advantage of it yet. I don't feel like I can push the boxes back until I've seen him check the new area out. Otherwise, I think he'll suddenly realize, hey, there's this whole new room we haven't spent time in, perfect for peeing in!

Again, I can tell he's getting better. I really, really to be able to trust Thor indoor implicitly. :sad: I hope we get there. Part of me thinks we'll get there even if it takes a year, and part of me thinks maybe never. I mean, I can't watch Thor every second for a YEAR. It can be hard to see the difference between really slow, erratic progress and no progress at all.

Well, congrats and I am sorry! LOL

Penny hadn't gone off the pad for a couple of days and then today she left a puddle in the middle of the kitchen floor. Her pad is in the kitchen, but not in the middle of the kitchen! :rolleyes:

Once she is over her surgery, we are going to try diapers a few hours a day so that she can have more space to "run" and enjoy being with anyone she chooses. Right now she is pretty stuck with me most of the time.

Well, as of tonight we're back to day 1... its raining out again.... Gwenni cannot understand that outside isn't only for #2, but also #1...

Yes! Yes! YES! YESSSSSSS!

Hey, at our thirty days, I hadn't given Nikko access to any rooms that required doors to go through. And within our first thirty days, he pooped once inside the neighbor's house, but I didn't count it because it wasn't our apartment. My point is that you shouldn't think of your apartment's 30 day mark as any less of an accomplishment than it absolutely is! This absolutely shows massive progress, serious wheels turning inside lil' Thor's brain machine! He is ON HIS WAY, no doubt about it. And all thanks to your patience and consistency... Thor is so lucky to have you teaching him. Congratulations! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Lauren & Nikko

Thank you! :) You are right, as usual. This is certainly a change from the start of the thread, when Thor thought rugs were for peeing and pads were for napping.

:we're #1:

AHHH potty training, I am losing hair let me tell you.. I'm looking into belly bands because today we were at my grandmothers and I was standing right over top of him, he lifted his leg and peed right on the chair.. I grabbed him and put him outside and said no.. Im lost in potty training

We're back on day one again. :( Zoe had been doing sooooo well, she has been crying at the door to go out! I'd reward EACH cry at the door with a treat and a "good girl" and then always walk her. (She'll still wait and hang around the door, silently, and I've stopped acknowledging that as wanting to go out, because she'll do that just because and hang out there for a while. So now crying *at the door* is the real indication she has to go out, and she's been doing really good at it!) Some times I didn't know if she was abusing it or just simply unable to, as there were days that I'd walk her 3+ times in 30 minutes and she wouldn't make! But all the same I'd been confining her and ALWAYS watching her and we'd been doing good. Except yesterday. :( She had an accident inside the house out of no where! I didn't catch her in the act, only the puddle itself. Of course as I was cleaning that up I found an old accident in her x-pen. :( I had thought she was finally starting to get it so I'm just going to keep up what we'd been doing and hope it'll kick in soon!

-Vicky & Zoë

Aw, mblab. That stinks. It sounds like Zoe is getting there though, you have a signal, which I never did figure out with Thor. He just does on his pee pad.

In terms of the abuse, do you have a designated potty spot outside? I would take her straight to her potty spot, give her a couple minutes, and if she doesn't go, take her back inside. Only reward her with a walk if she actually goes.

I wonder, was she playing around in the house? That was a huge challenge with Thor, he would just pee as he was running sometimes. Maybe that's why she lost it, so to speak.

Anyway, three steps forward, one step back. She'll get there!

Thanks, your advice/reassurance means a lot! Zoe's never been the quickest or brightest :rolleyes: :cool: (I still love her!) Anyway, it's been small baby steps. At first I thought her waiting at the door (something she came up with on her own) would be the "signal" but she likes the rug there and will sometimes just lay there for the fun of it. Trying to reinforce that every time was looking to be a nightmare. Since she sometimes would make a noise at the door I decided to try to reinforce* that instead. In the past week I'd say she's barked/cried at the door to go out more times than we've walked her just because it was time to (as in, it's been an hour or two and you haven't made lately, time for a walk!). So I saw that as a good sign.

By the way, when I saw reinforce and walk I mean reinforce with a treat and a "good girl" and a "walk" in our family is actually a quick trip to our front yard. In reality our "yard" is the grass strip no more than 2 feet wide between our house and the next house. :rolleyes: But that's where she makes, along that strip. She favors one section over others sporadically, sometimes she likes to make by the sidewalk, sometimes by the trash cans, it changes every day/every trip. Am I doing the wrong thing by allowing her to choose which area of our small grass to make? Should I just confine her to one section always? I just thought since our "yard" is so small her choosing with the limited space available would be fine. (When she does make, especially after indicating so, as a reward I'll walk her farther, like around the block or to check the mail since our mailbox isn't at the end of our driveway...)

I'm not really sure where that accident came from. :confused: We'd played with some toys, but not intensely, and she'd been asleep the last I saw (as I'd run in to the kitchen briefly). Even as a baby she hasn't really been that prone to accidents around playing. She's a water FANATIC (and drinks like a fish, sometimes she'll wake up from a dead sleep and climb down the couch, on her stairs of course, and get something to drink). I'm wondering if she woke up to get something to drink, thought, hmm I've got to pee, and that was what happened.

As good as I thought she was doing the accident definitely frustrated me. But so far so good today. I'll just keep up the routine we have going, hopefully that'll eventually make it work.

-Vicky

P.S. 11 weeks until we have to move out of current house and move in to our new place. We're in negotiations for our lease, so assuming that goes through, we have somewhere between 7-11 weeks before we actually move 100%. The new place looks to be ALL carpet (light carpet too!) :eek: so we have until then to do our BEST to get her 100%. I know 100% isn't going to happen but she needs to be as close to that as possible!

Hee! Thor is not the sharpest tool in the shed either. He makes up for it in other ways.

It sounds to me like you are doing the right thing with the potty area. I thought you meant you were taking her on long, rambling walks through miles of meadows and rolling hills before she decided to potty.

Don't worry about the carpet. A good cleaner will make it look like it never happened, especially if you catch it right away. I speak from experience, sadly.

Yeah, no long walks on rolling hills. :P I'm in a townhouse for now, we don't even have a back yard! :D The farthest we go around our neighborhood is around our street, the next street and u-turn it at the cul-de-sac. (And even then Zoe needs like 500 rest stops along the way!)

From experience then, what is this amazing cleaner? I've been using Miracle Spray for our tile, but clearly cleaning up carpets is not going to be as easy as cleaning our tiles is!

-Vicky

I use Nature's Miracle. If that doesn't pull all the yellow out, I add Oxyclean and let the solution sit for several minutes.

GOOD BOY THOR!;)
I know you sounded soooo frustrated at the beginning of this thread. I am proud that you can see progress!!
We WILL have little buddies that can run free, and we WILL be able to sit back and not watch every move they make. LOL

This is Bonnie's first day after her spay. She spent the night at the Vets. First thing she did when I put her down was to use her potty pad. Then she had a big drink AND used her potty pad. YEA BONNIE!! Of course that is not to say she might also go where she is not supposed to....

Penny is lost in her training!
 

I hope this is related to her getting spayed on Wednesday, but Penny is NOT using her pad consistently. Yesterday she made 3 puddles on the pad, 4 puddles and two piles in the kitchen.

Today she has gone potty twice in the office and twice made piles in the kitchen. :confused:

Poor Penny,
I hope she gets her system back to normal soon. Maybe when she feels better, she will want to please you and use her pads to make your happy:)

You think a cat would have been easier? LOL LOL

OH CRAP (no pun intended)
 

Well today, I caught Bonnie turning in circles in our foyer. I picked her up and hurried her to the bathroom and set her on the potty pad. She then ran off and squatted. I was able to pick her up and place her back on the pad before she went:( She did go on her pad, but she had no intention of using the pad in the first place...

Sometimes I think the corrections are almost important as good potties. You doubly reinforced the right place to go. Good for you for seeing the signs and setting her up for success. :)

Zoey wont use the pads
 

My Yorkie wont use her pads...she potties everywhere in the kitchen except on the pads :( any advice. I just got her yesterday so I know it take time but I wanted to know how could I encourage her to use it. I even got the spray. Its hard to catch her cause when I get up she runs to me.

In my experience, the sprays do not work at all. Try blotting the pad with some of her own pee from an accident. Then make sure to clean up any accidents with an enzyme cleaner, like Nature's Miracle, so that the only scented place is the pad.

Are you using an xpen or anything like that? A lot of people just line the entire xpen with pads so wherever she goes, she's on the pad. Then they gradually cut back to just one pad, or train for the outdoors.

Good luck! :)

Thanks,

I want to house train her because she will be home a lot by herself...I got her a pin...but she jumps and hits her head on the top so I let her out. I know that's bad...I'm going to try tonight to leave her in there over night. I have hard wood floors not so its a easy clean up but I move in three weeks and I want her to be able to use the pads by then.

Also, she cries when I take her outside

How old is she? I hate to tell you this, but she is unlikely to be fully house trained in three weeks if she is a puppy. The move itself could throw her off track.

I think on the pen, she'll probably figure out on her own that when she jumps she gets an ouchie on her head. It depends on how hard she's hitting her head, I guess.

She doesn't cry or anything I just feel bad for her. She is almost 4 months. I know she will still have accidence but I want to use it at least most of the time

I got a happy Easter gift from Daisy! Finally we have moved on to Day 2!!! After 3 months of day 1. No accidents yesterday. And my house was so busy with people I thought for sure it would throw her off but she had an awesome day! Yippee!

Yay! It's another Easter miracle! :)