| Archie's Mom | 02-26-2007 10:33 AM |
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Originally Posted by sammiz
(Post 974330)
I have had Sassy since January 14th. Barely over a month now. When I got her they told me she was pad trained. (She is a year old.) Well, as far as I can tell she isn't trained at all. Maybe she just thinks my whole house is one big pee pad....and basically, that is what it has become.
I have put those pads everywhere. She has gone on them every now and then. I think just because they were in the way when she was going. She hides to pee and potty. If I am around, she waits. Just looking at me. If I continue to be there, she gives up and goes elsewhere. Later, She will find another spot. I have bought a blacklight to help me find all the spots, a carpet shampooer and lots of urine off.
I also just purchased an x-pen that I am going to set up for her on linoleum with pads in there. I just can't take the indiscriminate pee spots everywhere. So...does anyone have any suggestions? I know she is going to be tremendously upset because she is used to free run of the house. I want that too, but AFTER she learns not to go everywhere.
I am "listening". Let me "hear" from you, please.
At my wits end and tired of living in a doggie pee/poo house,
Sammi
| I, too, have lived in the "House of Pee/Poo," and it has been a long journey getting my now year-old boy under control. He's not completely there yet -- but he's been doing very well of late -- he's down to just two pee pads in the house and he hits those, I'd say, -95percent of the time now. Once I realized he had several favorite spots to pee and poo, I put pee pads down in those spots -- he began to go only on those spots. Gradually, over a span of weeks, I noticed that there were certain pads he didn't used anymore, so I took those up. Eventually, he self-eliminated all the pads but one. On his first birthday, I began giving him access to another room in the house, the kitchen, so I put a pad down in there, which he uses, but not as much as his main pad. Eventually, I will take that one up, too and, hopefully, he'll get the message that the kitchen is no longer his potty. | 