We are working a bit backwards. Our baby is 7 months old. She has been “crate trained” since we brought her home. We taught her to ring a bell to go potty, but 1x day she is sneaking off and peeing/popping in the house and not ringing to go out. Also its soooo cold some days and rainy that I regret not teaching her about the pee pee pad.
We now realized we have given her too much “freedom” in the house. She was only in the crate when I left the house and to sleep at night. The rest of the day she has had the run of the house.
We just bought the IRIS 8 panel expen. We have it set up in our main family room so she is ‘with us’. We have put a pee pad in there with a pee pad holder. BUT she doesnt know what to do with it and has no desire to use it. I keep trying to tell her “Go pee pee” same cue words as when I take her outside. Are we too late at 7 months? I thought that since she is used to going out if we could teach her about the pad than we would atleast give her an option “indoors” if she needs to go - and the pee pad is much better than my oriental rug!!
I would appreciate any thoughts on - Are we too late? Our plans are to leave her in the playpen when we cant 100% focus on her and we are home (otherwise she’ll go in the smaller crate when we are out and at night time). How long will we have to have this HUGE xpen set up in our family room? If she never learns how to use the pee pads than do we put her bell in the xpen?
Any advice is GREATLY appreciated.
We now realized we have given her too much “freedom” in the house. She was only in the crate when I left the house and to sleep at night. The rest of the day she has had the run of the house.
We just bought the IRIS 8 panel expen. We have it set up in our main family room so she is ‘with us’. We have put a pee pad in there with a pee pad holder. BUT she doesnt know what to do with it and has no desire to use it. I keep trying to tell her “Go pee pee” same cue words as when I take her outside. Are we too late at 7 months? I thought that since she is used to going out if we could teach her about the pad than we would atleast give her an option “indoors” if she needs to go - and the pee pad is much better than my oriental rug!!
I would appreciate any thoughts on - Are we too late? Our plans are to leave her in the playpen when we cant 100% focus on her and we are home (otherwise she’ll go in the smaller crate when we are out and at night time). How long will we have to have this HUGE xpen set up in our family room? If she never learns how to use the pee pads than do we put her bell in the xpen?
Any advice is GREATLY appreciated.