I am not the greatest to make suggestions though I
had three dogs who all were paper trained to
papers in the kitchen. NOT a small area of paper,
a LOT of newspaper. But they went there as soon
as they were let down from "our" bed in the AM.
They returned there at will during the day. You've
heard of feeding at will, they went at will. There
was no schedule for either. Food was left out,
papers were kept out and changed every night.
My newest and now only Chihuahua is a little girl.
She came to me from a breeder who had taken her
out of breeding because she felt she was a bit too
large. I paid, but not nearly as much as the
breeder's smaller for-show bred animals. The
problem with Mio is that she was trained to a pet
door at the kennels. And the pet door went to a
run. So she immediately decided that the large
glass wall of my living room was the closest thing
to that pet door/run that she was familiar with. I
have temporarily given up. My oldest Chihuahua who
just died this month faithfully continued with his
trips to the kitchen, she faithfully goes behind
the couch to the newspaper (I have given in that
much) along the "run" of the glass wall.
Pee pads did nothing for any of my animals. I am
thinking that a large (how large do they get)
litter box will be my next idea, am also thinking
I may put it out on the balcony and make her
understand she has to ask me to go out that glass
door/wall to get to the litter box. I have no
idea how well I am going to do. I realize it may
be easier now that she is here by herself and not
competing with any other dog and I am not
complimenting one on using newspapers in the
kitchen when at the same time registering some
displeasure at her using newspapers behind the
couch.
Ugh!
Do you have a possibility of creating a pet door
to an enclosure, or a litter box on a back porch
area? Something that would take her to another
area where she cannot return to the carpeting?
Mine at least is focused and centered on the
newspapers and goes in only one area. I think if
you can manage to do that you might be able to
slightly and slowly move the dog on to other
areas. At least that is my hope with my own dog.
Let us know how you do. Have you asked the vet
for any suggestions? My own vet said placing
their droppings on the papers sometimes will draw
them back to that area. I think that is what I
did with the older (now gone) dogs. As babies
whenever they messed, I wiped up the pee and threw
the wet paper towel between the newspapers along
with any droppings. It wasn't long before those
babies trained to the kitchen newspapers. Some do
it in bathrooms. I live in a condo, my kitchen
has more space than my bathrooms and it was just
easier.
How big is her crate? A really large open gated
crate would permit newspaper at one end for her to
use as a bathroom, and she still could be away
from it at the other end and you could close her
up when you were not able to watch her. That might
be a temporary solution as you try to get her
trained to a permanent place.
Elaine
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power.
--Abraham Lincoln
Hello Mike
On Friday, December 15, 2006, you wrote
> My wife and I really need some help.
> Our Chihuahua is just over a year old. No
> matter what we do we can
> not train him to go on pads. We live in upper MN and it is too cold
> to take him outdoors.
> He is great if only allowed on non carpeted areas. Yet, whenever
> allowed in a carpeted room he goes on the
> carpeting even if pads are
> right there. We also find it almost impossible to get him to go pee
> and pooop on the same pad. He goes poop just
> about anywhere. He also
> refuses to go to the bathroom with us watching unless we wait him
> out for as much as an hour. We leave for 2
> minutes and he goes. Even
> if we make him hold it in his kennel for hours.
> We do not know what to do. We have tried
> kenneling for weeks at a
> time and only letting him out. We have cleaned carpets with several
> gallons on special urine cleaning agents in them. we love this dog
> to death but it is killing us. Plus it is
> driving us mad keeping him
> kenneled most of the time. He is a very social, friendly and fun
> loving unnuetered male.
> Can anyone out there help us. Mike and Sara If you respond to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will get both my wife and I. If you
> respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it comes to my cell phone directly.
> Thank You for listening
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