Grrrrr...who leaves their dogs out???CE

[VBDoxieMom]

Since Sol's passing, Kirby is having a horrible time in the kennel while we are at work (chewing, crying etc.) so we started leaving Kirby and Max loose on the first floor while we are at work.  There isn't much they can get into, and they are well behaved EXCEPT they (I think mostly Max) are peeing where they feel like it.    Its not bad to clean up on hardwood, but its just WRONG.  They are great when we are home.  HELP. 

[Barb]

How would they do in an ex-pen?  You could put 2 together and have one end with potty pads.......

[Dee Dee and Hallie]

I think the xpen idea is a good one too. You could make it bigger and bigger, then when you are home for the day if you could leave them for 15 min,leave them loose on the first floor, come home, if they are good work your way up...

[Doxherding Karen]

Start off with an x-pen with a kennel in it.  You can piddle-pad the outer part. Or a kennel in a small room that is blocked off.  My boys spend the night in the pink bathroom. (They're in touch with their feminine side!)

Be careful, though.  Dog urine will eventually stain hardwood and its subflooring.  You can get pieces of linoleum to put down under the x-pen.  Kathleen, my rabbit-mentor does that to make rooms rabbit friendly.

Auntie Karen

[Roberta]

I know you are not there during the day, but you may have to take the both back to training. you make them go out and piddle when you want them to go, ie go naggy mom adn show who is alpha.
Roberta

[peterparker]

I have an expen with a replaceable laminate floor  in the laundry room where I leave Parker while I'm at work. Parker always soils in it on his blanket. Yuk. I have given up. I buy baby blankets at the goodwill in bulk. They wash up nice.  I just throw the blanket in the laundry every night, and mop down the floor. He never pees in the bed, just pulls the blanket out of the bed and pee's on it. He also leaves the pee pads clean or shreds them. When we are home he has access to the laundry room and the pee pads that he uses dilligently.  If we are gone for a few hours we leave him loose upstairs and he never pees. He also never pees in our bed. He also pees when he is mad at me. Usually right in front of me, or where he knows I'll catch him. I guess negative attention is better then no attention. I have never had such an untrustworthy dog when it comes to toileting. I don't even think the dog whisperer can cure his behaviours. The laminate floor under the pen gets replaced when the laundry room starts to smell with whatever is on sale.  Usually costs about $12 every two or three months. I am becoming an expert at what holds smell and what doesn't.

[Kathleen]

Somewhere, I have photos of the X-pen "farm" I used to have in my living room in Washington.  I had one pen for Murphy and whatever foster I had at the time, one pen for Winston and Reilly, and one pen for Millie who was a baby at the time.  My dogs always did well in the X-pens, and I used to just put comfy beds down (or a crate) and a piddle pad in one corner. 

[VBDoxieMom]

Ok, last night Jim ran out and bought one of those Potty Patches.  We've seen them on TV, and I was only suckered in because we are desperate.  So today, when I came downstairs (usually the signal I am leaving in 15 minutes) I put all the blankets in the dryer on high.  Then, I separated the sections of our xpen and put two sections across both entrances to the kitchen/dining area (our first floor goes in a circle basically) this "trapped" them in the living room, powder room and foyer.  Put the Potty Patch by the bathroom door.  Before we left they got hugs and treats and HOT BLANKIES......they seemed ok.

GUESS WHAT???

NO ACCIDENTS TODAY!!!!! (And nothing on the Potty Patch) Whats the deal?  Interesting experiment, will keep you posted.  And yes, fellow doxies,  Kirby and Max got a special treat for being good.


P.S.  Sol is reading these posts, and he is not happy that anyone mentioned TRAINING CLASSES......I can see him flashing his fangs now....LOLOL.