Rascal Dog Litter box-HELP
 

I know there has been alot of threads with this but I need help.

I can not get my Tessa (12 weeks) to go in it. She will lay and sleep in it, play with it, but just wont do her dutie in it. I have her gated off in my kitchen area when I am gone. I first try to have her use pee pads, she kind of got that so I place them in the box and she will not us it. I am just looking for idea or help what might of worked for you. Any help will be greatly apprecated!!

I just got one too for Brody (15 weeks now).

We have him in his crate inside an xpen with the pee pads (before the Rascal) so that when he comes out of his crate his only choice is to be on the pee pads and he needs to go before we let him out of the pen. That was working GREAT!

Then I put the Rascal down on the pads and he jumped in, played a bit, laid down and then got right beside it on the pads and did his business. Ugh.

So I put a pad in the Rascal on top of the grass and set it so that the only choice he had was to be in the Rascal when he came out of his crate (with just a few inches of free space on each side, but not enough to do business. We left it like that for him overnight (during the night we open his crate so he can go when he needs to) and sure enough he'd ended up using the pad on the Rascal. He kind of pooped right out the front of it, but we could see he got the idea.

So the next day I did the same thing, pee pad on the Rascal. And he used it. He had no other choice.

After a few days I now use just a half a pee pad on there. Which helps because I can see when he's peed (otherwise you can't tell on the grass) and it helps him to transition. But he's using the Rascal without a problem now.

The thing is, if you have her in the kitchen she's got the whole rest of the floor to choose to use. I'd put the Rascal in an xpen or something else to enclose it so she has no other option, until she gets the hang of it.

At 12 weeks, the whole kitchen is a pretty big space to have. If she was only 'kind of' getting the pee pads, then I think a crate and xpen are the way to go. She's a bit too young to really get housebreaking, so if you give her just the option to go in the right spot, you'll set her up for success and by the time she's 16 weeks old she'll really have it down. (What I would do is gradually make the xpen bigger with some open space and see if she's not having accidents on the bare floor. If she does good, then you can make the space bigger until you finally have her in the kitchen and she's using her Rascal exclusively.)

You might be right that I have her in to big of a place for her to understand where to go. She does very well if I take her out every hour but if I am not there then I dont want her to hold it. I will give it a try and see if we get some results!