Hi,
I have a lovely female Ridgeback, I have had her for 3 months now since she was 45 days old. Since then I have been trying house training and it is not working.
We live in an appartment with access to the roof.
I have tried taking her to the roof after meals but she just plays for a while and as soon as she comes back to the appartment she pees or poos.
Before reading the house training part of sitstayfetch I used to make her smell the pee/poo and put her in a bathroom which I wanted her to use but wihtout newspapers. This didn't work, she would sleep there and as soon as she came out she would do it again somewhere around the house.
I removed all the carpets, so that she doesn't find the smell. started to apply the paper method by palcing newspapers on the floor of the bathroom and place a soiled one on top of the clean ones. but it is still not working , she still does it in certain places around the house consistently but never on the newspapers.
In the book it was stated that if she is caught in action take her quickly to finish in the desired area on the newspapers and then reward her when she does.
but what if I don't catch her in action ,and I mostly find it later. should she be scolded and taken to the bathroom or she wouldn't understand that ?
How can I end this?
Please help me.
Thanks
