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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might give up on the bedding and just line the crate with a disposable puppy pad until you get over the hump.  Less to clean up.

Also, watch for tells that the puppy needs to go.  Try to take her out a bit after she eats or drinks.[/quote]

OP I'm the desperate first-time puppy mom from the other thread so obviously take my advice with many many grains of salt, but the 3 times my puppy has peed inside in her first days at home she has done the exact same tell.

I read in a book that if the dog starts sniffing around on the floor, especially if it stops what it was doing like playing and moves to sniffing, she's about to pee.  Sure enough, that's exactly what she does.  She particularly starts walking the perimeter of her pen sniffing, looking for somewhere "away" from her main floor area to pee.

I watched the tell but didn't catch the actual pee moment the first two times.  On the third, I swooped her up so quickly that she hadn't even stopped and pee got all over. But she hasn't done it since (in 48 hours so I know not a huge victory).

I know this doesn't help for the crate part though. [/quote]

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