Belle is STILL shitting in the house. My boyfriend let her out today, she did her business (both peed and pooped) and then she came in the house and DID IT AGAIN
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Murry is trained to go inside and outside. If I'm downstairs and the whether is nice I leave the patio door open wide enough that he and the cats can play in the backyard. Mine and my roommates cats have a great love of the patio table and will bug us to put the umbrella down if it is blocking their light :) I also have pads kind of all over the place. I have two in the bedroom because he likes to pee on one and then walk to the other to poop, and then one in the living room so that on those rare occasions that he has unsupervised free roam of the house he has a place to potty if he is playing downstairs. I was lucky in that Murry seemed to come partially trained to pee on the pad, it took a couple months to get him to poop on the pad reliably though.
I wasn't interested in crate training because I'm home most of the time and I could confine him easily to the bathroom with a baby gate for the 2 or 3 hours I'm gone at a time, but I have been training Murry to accept sitting in his airplane bag since we are going to be going on a 5 hour flight next month. I started out with 5 minutes in the bag and during a pause in the whining I let him out. Then we upped it to 10 min, and then 15, and eventually to 30. I always give him one of his favorite toys and a bully stick or Kong to chew on when I put him in so that he doesn't have cause to be bored. You might think about giving her a treat that will take her a while to eat when you stick her in the crate so that it isn't so bad, stuffed Kongs are great because it takes them forever to get every little bit out. Also, leave her in the crate while you're sitting in sight so she doesn't associate being in the crate with you leaving. Once she gets used to that try leaving the room for a few minutes and then coming back, each time you leave leave for a longer amount of time.
Adjusting to crating since she is an adult will probably take longer than if she was a puppy but I wish you luck :)
I also have pads kind of all over the place. I have two in the bedroom because he likes to pee on one and then walk to the other to poop, and then one in the living room so that on those rare occasions that he has unsupervised free roam of the house he has a place to potty if he is playing downstairs. I was lucky in that Murry seemed to come partially trained to pee on the pad, it took a couple months to get him to poop on the pad reliably though.
I wasn't interested in crate training because I'm home most of the time and I could confine him easily to the bathroom with a baby gate for the 2 or 3 hours I'm gone at a time, but I have been training Murry to accept sitting in his airplane bag since we are going to be going on a 5 hour flight next month. I started out with 5 minutes in the bag and during a pause in the whining I let him out. Then we upped it to 10 min, and then 15, and eventually to 30. I always give him one of his favorite toys and a bully stick or Kong to chew on when I put him in so that he doesn't have cause to be bored. You might think about giving her a treat that will take her a while to eat when you stick her in the crate so that it isn't so bad, stuffed Kongs are great because it takes them forever to get every little bit out. Also, leave her in the crate while you're sitting in sight so she doesn't associate being in the crate with you leaving. Once she gets used to that try leaving the room for a few minutes and then coming back, each time you leave leave for a longer amount of time.
Adjusting to crating since she is an adult will probably take longer than if she was a puppy but I wish you luck :)
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