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Hi everyone
I got my pitty Emma at the end of April. When I first brought her home from the shelter she was recovering from being in a neglected home/a kill shelter before being rescued to the no kill I got her from.
At first I tried to just let her roam the house while I was at work but she was just a tornado of destruction and would usually use my spare bedroom or living room as a bathroom.
After a couple week and countless refills to the carpet cleaner I got her a crate and began to crate train her. Everything was going great with that but it was starting to get into the dead heat of summer and I felt bad having her in her cage with water/food that she wouldnt touch because she would have to go to the bathroom before I got home.
After some trial and error [and 4 new set of blinds] I have got a system down where she walks first thing in the morning to go pee, then I have her crate blocking the living room [its still her safe haven but I dont bother locking her in there anymore] and a locked door to the spare bedroom, leaving my room/kitchen/basement open for her to roam.
She has gotten so used to just going into the basement and doing her 1's and 2's that she will still beg to be let out for a bathroom walk 3-4x a day but not do anything [especially if it is raining out] then we come back in and a few minutes later she just heads down to the basement and handles her business.
Any suggestions on curbing her need to use the basement as a potty and to get her to realize that if she bother me for a potty walk that I expect her to actually go potty?
I got my pitty Emma at the end of April. When I first brought her home from the shelter she was recovering from being in a neglected home/a kill shelter before being rescued to the no kill I got her from.
At first I tried to just let her roam the house while I was at work but she was just a tornado of destruction and would usually use my spare bedroom or living room as a bathroom.
After a couple week and countless refills to the carpet cleaner I got her a crate and began to crate train her. Everything was going great with that but it was starting to get into the dead heat of summer and I felt bad having her in her cage with water/food that she wouldnt touch because she would have to go to the bathroom before I got home.
After some trial and error [and 4 new set of blinds] I have got a system down where she walks first thing in the morning to go pee, then I have her crate blocking the living room [its still her safe haven but I dont bother locking her in there anymore] and a locked door to the spare bedroom, leaving my room/kitchen/basement open for her to roam.
She has gotten so used to just going into the basement and doing her 1's and 2's that she will still beg to be let out for a bathroom walk 3-4x a day but not do anything [especially if it is raining out] then we come back in and a few minutes later she just heads down to the basement and handles her business.
Any suggestions on curbing her need to use the basement as a potty and to get her to realize that if she bother me for a potty walk that I expect her to actually go potty?