Originally posted by lizbud
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.
The kitchen is fairly large. When we were housebraking Mickey he wasn't grasping the idea of peeing outside so we thought we might paper train him. He never really peed on it so we switched back to outside. Confusing and a bad move, I know, but now he's housebroken. Mickey can hold it for a good amount of time. He pees before he goes to bed (in his cage), let's say around 12 and goes out to pee sometime around 9 or earlier, he'll let us know. I DO know that he likes to rip things up. Many time he has found some paper on the floor, tore it up and walked away. I think it is just boredom. I would wait until we get home for him to potty, but I wouldn't think it is a good idea since if he is alone for about about 7 hours, there are 2 puddles of pee.

Mickey will be a year old in October.