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06-07-2017, 07:35 PM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Alexandria, Virginia
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| Yes and no to pee pad is she angry? Wendy is new to my home(3 weeks), she is 18months old. Breeder says she is pee pad trained. If I'm with her she poops and pees right on the pad. If I'm not home she pees on the floor. I have not given her the run of the house. Mostly we are in the kitchen, gated. How do I correct this? She sleeps with me at night until I turn the lights out and I put her in her crate. She's always dry in the morning. Should she be crated when I'm gone? I'm home most of the time since I'm retired. |
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06-07-2017, 11:36 PM | #2 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | First off, you're very wise not to give her free rein around the house when you're not there. Pats on the back! I'm no expert, but my :02 from a couple stabs at it: Sounds like you're leaving her in a largish kitchen area? My inclination would be to shrink the area until she earns that extra freedom. Set up a smaller xpen with enough room for a comfy open crate on one side, then just a few paces before the other side of the crate and the pad. I jury-rigged an xpen that was maybe 10 feet long and a few feet wide. The idea is the dog will try to get as far away from where she rests to relieve herself, and that area is covered by the pad. The larger kitchen may be giving her too many options. You might talk to her breeder about how she was pee pad trained and see if she has some other suggestions. Good luck. Hopefully others with more experience will weigh in.
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06-08-2017, 06:05 AM | #3 |
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| Thank you Alaska. I had not considered how much space she had in the kitchen! Rearranging now! Earlier this am I put her gated in the kitchen while I went to the bathroom in that short of time, she peed on the floor. Minutes later on the pee pad when I was back. I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt! |
06-08-2017, 08:17 AM | #4 |
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| I agree with Alaska to reduce her kitchen space area. I've also read elsewhere that if you're still in the beginning stages of pad training (side ramble: even when they're trained at the breeder's, they may still need to adjust in your home - and if taken elsewhere, the training again, goes out the window), try placing pee pads all over the small section of your kitchen. For example, give her isolated space of 4 pee pads plus her bed. Lay out 4 pads. After a week, see if she has a preference to pee in certain areas. If there's one pad she never pees on, you take that pad away from that spot. Then the following week take away another pad she doesn't pee on (granted she didn't have accidents on the pad-less area. Then again after that, until you have one pad left.
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06-08-2017, 08:42 AM | #5 |
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| Thank you. It's been 14 years since I had to train a dog! It's all coming back now! |
06-08-2017, 09:18 AM | #6 |
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| Hehe.. don't worry about it. Because you never know with these little guys. Just when you think you know how to potty train one, the next one that comes along needs to be trained completely a different way! haha
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06-08-2017, 01:55 PM | #7 |
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| another thread There's another thread today Potty training : outisde or pee pads ? that has some other responses related to your question. |
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