Tilly has taken to weeing near my front door at night when she can't hold herself, we put newspaper down because we can't expect her to wait all night at her age... butjust now i went through to go upstairs and noticed a nice fresh puddle of wee on a piece of newspaper that was left down.(i forgot to move it) she'd been playing out and must have come in to have a wee rather than doing it outside! Is this because she associates paper with peeing? Mind you, last night there was paper down but she chose to pee on the carpet instead....
Lynsey

How old is she?

Personally, I don't use paper.

My suggestion would be to remove all the paper and go back to putting her out every 20 minutes. Crucial times are: waking up, after eating, after playing. Put her out, stay with her till she wees, and then praise praise praise. Ignore accidents on the house - there will be many! - and at night. She will soon learn. My Dane was clean through the night at four months... but its dependent on the dog :)

Chloe

well she's about 4 and a half months, but she was a stray up until a couple of weeks ago when the rescue place found her, so i doubt shes had any training in the past. She's normally brilliant, it was just this one incident that frustrated me! I follow her out a lot and she knows already even after only a week that if i say 'go be a good girl' i want her to wee, and she always obliges and gets lots of praise. Ah well, like you said, there will be a lot of accidents! the paper is just to try and save my carpet really - wee is hard to clean up once it soaks in! Lynz

Pups of that age can be unpredictable :) Ours was very clean quite young, but if she got a chance to go into our dining room, just a few seconds even, (we hardly ever use it), she would go to the far end and poo :) Why, I don't know - someone can probably tell me :)

Daisy

Lynz
itreally is just matter of always watching her and trying to catch her before she does anything . You can usually tell by their actions .
Keep wth it and it really will just click for her in time :)
Good luck
Lel

Hi

I just bit the bullet for a couple of weeks, then got all my carpets cleaned. Willis was a nightmare being so big, he would also walk about while weeing leaving a trail of dots accross the front room!! :rolleyes:

Chloe :)

Chloe
Gus is much smaller and can still manage that nice abstract wee pattern across the floor when he feels artistic :D
Lel

:D @ Gus. Isn't it a nightmare? You have to clean the whole carpet instead of just a spot!

good news.... Well, for me anyway! Tilly has had 2 consecutive 'clean' nights of 7 hours each :) am overjoyed!
Lynz and Tilly-clean-bottom

Well done - getting there! :)