--- In [email protected], "Anne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Ann,
Thanks so much. I found it and printed it out!!!
> Hey, Noelle.
>
> If you look in the Files section of the group's home page, you'll
find a
> file called Housebreaking.txt that I put there. This is the
system that
> worked effortlessly for me. I have never crated my girls and
would never do
> so for more than a couple of hours. If you have a puppy, they
can't hold
> their waste for much longer than that, and will have no choice but
to
> eliminate inside their crate, which certainly isn't teaching them
to go
> where you want them to.
>
> I did use a baby gate to block off a linoleum-floored bathroom
which served
> as a "crate", if you like, for my girls when I couldn't be
supervising them.
> That way, they could have their sleep/food/water areas separate
from the pee
> pads. I literally carpeted the floor of the small bathroom with
pee pads
> except for their bed and a small area for their food/water.
Gradually I
> used fewer pee pads, and fewer, until it was just one. But the
most
> important part of the system is to use ONLY positive
reinforcement, to
> praise and reward so that they *want* to use that pee pad
(newspaper,
> whatever) and know that they can infallibly earn your approval.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Anne
>
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