Good Advice!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Wow, it's nice to know that we're somewhat "normal" in this house! I've always had good luck with potty training my pets, but my "twins" are a whole new story! We have pee pads at the foot of our bed, and just can't seem to get away from it. I suspicion it is mostly our little boy. I watch all 4 go outside, and the girls will go out by themselves even in the rain, but Guner will poke his nose out the door, and turn around to wait til no one is looking. I've never caught him in the act, and we have given him loads of praise when he does go outside, but we still can not get rid of the pee pads. I also do not have throw rugs around the house. I actually had to put a "baby fence" up around our dinning room when they were younger to break the habit of going in there. We lived with an ugly fence that we needed to crawl over for months, but it worked. Good luck, and thanks all of you for making me feel like I'm not just a "bad" Mom :)

I can tell you about the kitchen rug problem. Most of those throw rugs for bathroom and kitchen have a rubber backing that has some sort of chemical in them that smells like urine to cats and dogs. It seems to attract some more than others. I gave up on being able to have a kitchen rug long ago and I always hang my bathroom mat on the side of the tub after use. Those rag rugs are OK but I don't care for them much.

It may be that your little girl got so used to using that spot in front of the sink that by the time you got rid of the rug it was just an area that she was trained to. Someone else suggested moving it a couple of inches at a time and I agree. I used to have a pee pad in the frame in my bedroom when Gracie was a pup. When I decided she was old enough to use just the other pad near the door I was greatly disappointed. She would pee on the rug right where the pee pad had been in the bedroom. I had to bring the pad back and ever so slowly move it toward the other pee pad. It took a couple of weeks to get it to where I wanted it. They are creatures of habit. Moving the pee pad an inch or two at a time and leaving it there for several days at a time will help her accept the move slowly.

Although these little darlings are very smart and even emotional I don't believe they want to displease us in any way. They just have a way of thinking and reasoning that sometimes we don't understand and they surely don't understand how we try to communicate with them many times.

When a dog goes out to go pee it does not always empty it's self totally at first especially if they have had a bit more to drink or have been holding it for a while. We want them to go and get it over with but little dogs have little bladders and although they may empty the bladder the kidneys may still be filling the bladder with more urine so they may need to pee several times in a fairly short time period. If you take them for a walk you will see them peeing quite a bit and generally by the time you get home they are set for a while. The exercise does get the body's systems working faster. When they just go outside for a short time their little kidneys are still busy even though they have come back in.

I know how maddening it is to wait for them to get it all done but they don't know much about time and schedules and they sure don't know about what is going on in their kidneys.