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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We will be hosting 18-23 for a week for Christmas (I know - insane 😂). 10 small children and we have three house pets ourselves (all very good with kids). This will be a massive undertaking for DH and I, but we are happy to have family here. MIL will have a 3 month old dachshund puppy she wants to bring to the house....We agreed, but because our house is mostly carpet, said the puppy needs to stay crated or can run around outside and not run around the house.

Mil is very upset with this and is throwing a fit. Are we being cruel here? She wants to put pee pads down and let it run around the house... [/quote]

Carpet -wood-tile- is irrelevant.  No pee poo in the house and the MIL is ridiculous.  That 3 month old puppy can't have the run of the house - [b]volume of people, exterior doors ( open and out the thing goes?).[/b]So you are driving distance to each other but iits an overnight range. No pee pads anywhere. No human playpen/playyard.   It needs to go out consistently on a leash in a puppy sized harness that fits it size.  Our dogs were house trained by 3 months- this isn't a NYC apt yorkie trained to go in the  equivalent of a litter box.

Use a larger breed crate in an out of the way room like a laundry room -a 3 month dachshund is at most the weight of a small 8 week labrador. Crates have crate pans- metal or plastic. when it's not in the crate it should be leashed using the harness.

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