Originally posted by primabella


Today is an example of "one of those days". When he is left home alone all day he gets sectionned off to the kitchen and everything is cleared out except some toys, his food and water bowls and some newspaper so he could pee. For some reason he ALWAYS pees on the newspaper, so we never have a problem with that. The thing is when I got home today he was SO excited to see me. He would run out, slipping everywhere, jumping, crying, shaking a little and moving everywhere around the house. I let him out to pee and kicked the soccer ball a bit so he could run. After a few minutes he was fine but the newspaper was ripped up and scattered everywhere. He HAD peed on it (two puddles).

I am just wondering, is this behavior normal? The shaking and crying and jumping, and the ripping up of the newspaper? It's happened only a few times that he'll be left home alone all day and each time he acts the same way. Is it normal? Thanks.
Primabella, I was just wondering how big is the area that he's
sectioned off in while everyones gone? Were you going to train
your dog away from peeing on paper? Can he hold it for 8 hrs.?
Sorry, but I've forgotten how old he is.Smokey was paper trained
until he was able to hold it longer & he told me he was ready to
get rid of the papers by tearing them to tiny shreds when I was
away. I stopped putting the papers down & he just waited
till I can home from work & he went potty outside from then on.