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01-24-2014, 03:08 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Redondo beach
Posts: 675
| Need help with inside potty training on carpeted floors. So I'm trying to give Gizmo more area of the house, so he has more room to play, and am now trying to start let him upstairs, which is all carpet. First try 2 days ago he had a poop accident and totally missed the potty pad, I have one in each room. Today I decided to try again, he was doing great and pooped on one of the pads upstairs, came to get me so I could go see, and I gave him a treat and tons of praise. Well then skip ahead about another hour, and he had come back down after chasing the kitties and playing with toys, and he came up and just laid next to me on the couch. He always does this when he knows he's guilty of something, so I went to check, and sure enough, he had peep on the carpet right next to the bed in the spare room. I had just been giving him one more room at a time, expanding his space so he would not be overwhelmed with all the extra room. I also made sure there was a potty pad no matter where he was, so he would see it and know where to go. He never has accidents downstairs as its all hard floors, so carpet is new to him. I'm wondering how I break him from peeing on the carpet once he has already done it once. With the poop accident, I reprimanded him and put the poop on the pad when he missed the other day, and he did his poop well today on the pad up there, but how do you deal with pee on the carpet? I cleaned it with the natures miracle marks no more, but now I'm afraid of letting him back up there, afraid he will do it again somewhere else :-( I have my staircase blocked off, but I can't do that forever because I have 3 cats, and as it is now 2 of them only come down at night to eat and do their business, while Gizmo is sleeping in his pen. Any advice on how to stop the peeing on carpet? He's only done it once but I want to try to redirect him to his pad before he does it again. We have shag carpet that is very long so I really have to search to find it :-( any and all advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much in advance. |
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01-24-2014, 03:50 PM | #2 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NY
Posts: 6,582
| You didn't say how old he is but if he is still a youngster it is not unusual to have an accident now and then. You are right that expanding their space can promote accidents. It may be best not to let him go upstairs unless you are up there with him. Keep the steps fenced off when you are not going to be upstairs. Try to keep him in the same room you are in until he is more trust worthy and always praise and reward him for getting it right. Giving lots of encouragement when he does it right is much more effective then reprimanding when there is an accident. |
01-24-2014, 04:10 PM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Redondo beach
Posts: 675
| He's almost 8 months old and has been potty trained inside and out sine he was about 3 months old. He's never had an accident on the pad while he's been downstairs. I tried a couple months ago to allow more space upstairs before he was neutered, and he had a couple accidents at that time up there, when I just gave him the hallway and one bedroom, but I figured now he's a couple months older and fixed, that I would try again. Like I said the first day he had the one poop accident, I corrected him and today e pooped on the pad up there, so I had a Gizmo party with lots of praise and a treat. Then he had the pee accident an hour later. I'm wondering if he distinguishes the difference of peeing and pooping :-( last time I tried he had a poop accident but no pee accident, then today it was the opposite. I am totally confused. It's easy to pickup the poop and put it on the pad to show him where it goes, I'm lost as how to show him the pee goes on there lol. He always pees on the pad downstairs but he seems to not know the difference upstairs between the pad and the carpet when it comes to peeing. I think he might have tried to lift his leg when he did it because it was so close to the bed that has a quilt that hags down. I just wish I could figure out how to get him to know the difference between the pads and the carpet. Downstairs I have a large throw rug on my hardwood floor and he never mistakes that between the pad. I think it's the longer shag carpet up there that is confusing him? |
01-24-2014, 09:50 PM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Vashon island,Wa usa
Posts: 60
| Kusco does great downstairs. lately he runs upstairs and i follow and he has used the upstairs pad.He was doing so well that tonight i didn't follow him. but sure enough-he pooped at the top of the stairs. not on the pad. sigh. so just when I think he has got it-we are back to square one! He is just 5 months old. |
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