Well if your dog is only one month old, that's a little young to give her the run of the house. They are too young to know what to do with themselves then. Actually at that young of an age, I think we were still keeping Daisy in her crate when we left. If you aren't crate-training her, you can do this. We made Daisy "prove herself" before we let her go where she wanted. We didn't want her to pee on the rugs (never had a problem with chewing, just peeing) so we would keep her in our tiled-floor kitchen, kept in their by a few baby gates. When she was finally a good girl with no more accidents, we started leaving her free to roam, gradually increasing the amount of time we let her go free. Finally we could just go off, worry free. Well, as long as we put the trash can out of reach, that is Good luck with your baby, I love daschunds!!!