In England we use clicker training alot and it definately works. My pup,Mitzi is 12 wks old today and i've had her for 4 wks. She is being trained to go outside but the same principles work for inside pad training. If she pees inside i ignore it & quickly mop it up unless i actually catch her, when i tell her no in a sharp voice & take her outside. Outside i tell her to go potty & when she does immediately click the clicker & give her a treat. Within 3 days she was going on command & sitting for her treat (she was 10 wks old when started)! I take her out first thing in morning, after meals, after sleep or playtime & probably every hr in between, so i'm up & down but only have a couple of accidents in the house & and she is still very young compared to alot of you pup owners out there. With the same clicker/reward system i have her trained to sit & come already. The idea is that adventually you can click before she does whatever you want her to do so you are effectively commanding her to an action.

I have bought the book you talk about and in another month i will give it a go as i think the principles in it will teach her to hold her pee untill you let her out, whereas at the moment i have few accidents because i constantly take her out, but she can't hold it very long.

Hi. Well Dustie has been trained to go outside and he is doing really well now...still a few accidents but mostly by the back door..where we have placed a large sheet of polythene..so its easy to clean up.

With regard to paper...tell me about it....Dustie just loves paper towel..tissues..newpaper..in fact anything he can get hold of...

In the car the other day..we left him for just a moment while checking our Caravan lights..and in that short time he had torn up a large page of our Map...and it was only the page we needed for getting home...but hey what can one do....and he looked so guilty with half a map page stuffed in his mouth...mind you he wasn't too pleased when his mamma told him off..:(

Guess to keep all paper products out of their way..!:)

Chrisann.