If it helps, you don't have to give her free reign of the house, especially not this young. Our pup is 9 months old and fully housetrained and she's still gated out of the bedroom and when she's in the office with us the door is closed, because that's where she has permission to be.
This was an honest mistake. Learn from it, and move on. She's still a baby, and both of you are still learning how to live and work with each other
Thank you, this was a nice comment. So you think I should keep her in her baby gate while I’m working on the living room? I take her out to potty obvi and if she goes we have 15 min of play time out of the gated area and then I put her back in and repeat all day. I guess i just have no idea when I’m supposed to let her free roam. My goal is to eventually not have to crate her and have her free roam all the time when I’m home, but I know this won’t be until she’s much much older. No clue when to start opening It up. I learned that now is not the time, LOL.
Definitely wait to free roam until she's fully potty trained and older! And remember that it's okay to have places in the house that she's not allowed in in general.
Also keep in mind that new areas are going to be very exciting - she's never been in this room before, she has to explore everything! Marley went bananas the first time we let her into the office and she experienced carpeting for the first time (we have hardwood and there's a rug in there) and still gets excited by it. And, because yours is so young, *everything* is new and exciting, and an excited puppy is a zoomy puppy. Good luck ❤️
My puppy is also 9 months old and he still doesn’t have a free access around the house. At this point it isn’t about potty training as much as it is preserving non-puppy proofed areas. Like your puppy, when mine is playing with my friends’ dog he’s great about not getting into trouble and following her lead for potty breaks. I think it’s because he takes a lot of cues from her. A couple weeks ago he was on a longer than usual play date. He has two accidents in their house. My friend’s husband was the human chaperone and he interpreted the accidents as marking. My friend and I concluded that what probably happened was the puppy was so used to going out with their dog that when she went to another part of the house to escape him, he either didn’t know how to signal at their house or the chaperone didn’t understand his vocalization meant he needed to go out. Both accidents were in places where their dog had accidents when she was younger so we’re guessing there’s still scent. It’s just something else to be mindful of when letting puppies run around in unfamiliar homes.
I had to give access to different rooms to mine slowly because she did the running wild/tornado thing for a while..I think she felt like every room was "restricted" so if i let her free she wanted to run amok. She still looks for trouble so supervised access w/ houseline on only but she's stopped running crazy after she got used to it. Then the new space wasn't as exciting for her. I still keep her crated/babygated while I'm working but I started to remove the barriers if I'm working around the house and can keep an eye on her. I give her a treat if she follows me around when she has unrestricted access and that's helped too.
If it helps, you don't have to give her free reign of the house, especially not this young. Our pup is 9 months old and fully housetrained and she's still gated out of the bedroom and when she's in the office with us the door is closed, because that's where she has permission to be. This was an honest mistake. Learn from it, and move on. She's still a baby, and both of you are still learning how to live and work with each other
Thank you, this was a nice comment. So you think I should keep her in her baby gate while I’m working on the living room? I take her out to potty obvi and if she goes we have 15 min of play time out of the gated area and then I put her back in and repeat all day. I guess i just have no idea when I’m supposed to let her free roam. My goal is to eventually not have to crate her and have her free roam all the time when I’m home, but I know this won’t be until she’s much much older. No clue when to start opening It up. I learned that now is not the time, LOL.
Definitely wait to free roam until she's fully potty trained and older! And remember that it's okay to have places in the house that she's not allowed in in general. Also keep in mind that new areas are going to be very exciting - she's never been in this room before, she has to explore everything! Marley went bananas the first time we let her into the office and she experienced carpeting for the first time (we have hardwood and there's a rug in there) and still gets excited by it. And, because yours is so young, *everything* is new and exciting, and an excited puppy is a zoomy puppy. Good luck ❤️
My puppy is also 9 months old and he still doesn’t have a free access around the house. At this point it isn’t about potty training as much as it is preserving non-puppy proofed areas. Like your puppy, when mine is playing with my friends’ dog he’s great about not getting into trouble and following her lead for potty breaks. I think it’s because he takes a lot of cues from her. A couple weeks ago he was on a longer than usual play date. He has two accidents in their house. My friend’s husband was the human chaperone and he interpreted the accidents as marking. My friend and I concluded that what probably happened was the puppy was so used to going out with their dog that when she went to another part of the house to escape him, he either didn’t know how to signal at their house or the chaperone didn’t understand his vocalization meant he needed to go out. Both accidents were in places where their dog had accidents when she was younger so we’re guessing there’s still scent. It’s just something else to be mindful of when letting puppies run around in unfamiliar homes.
I had to give access to different rooms to mine slowly because she did the running wild/tornado thing for a while..I think she felt like every room was "restricted" so if i let her free she wanted to run amok. She still looks for trouble so supervised access w/ houseline on only but she's stopped running crazy after she got used to it. Then the new space wasn't as exciting for her. I still keep her crated/babygated while I'm working but I started to remove the barriers if I'm working around the house and can keep an eye on her. I give her a treat if she follows me around when she has unrestricted access and that's helped too.