New puppy.

Yes I love her so much! She is just so cute!

Other posters have given you great advice. Crate training is the best. My little girl (who is now 2) goes to her crate on her own if she is stressed or needs to get away from the hustle and bustle of the other dogs. She also hides things in her crate (like her bones) so the other dogs won't steal them from her. She will not go to the bathroom in or near her crate. follow the advice from the posters above...

I live in the country, and so I go out with my dogs when they need to relieve themselves. I haven't had a dog yet that will pee and poop in the same spot...sometimes I think it's a conspiracy among the dog world to drive me nuts!!! I am babysitting a friends Pit/Lab mix, and her favorite place to poop is in my pumpkin patch and she prefers to pee in the front yard. You might want to have the pee and poop pads in close proximity to each other so she can use one for pee and one for poop. You might also kind of transfer the odor from the pee pad to the poop pad so she has some idea of what you want her to do. Julievy is so right when she says not to scold or spank her if she has an accident in the wrong spot. Not only will she sneak away to do her duty in some other spot but also it will make her shy! Unfortunately, when you make a dog shy you can never predict her reactions to different situations. I know of one dog that is not only shy but also she is a neurotic biter. You can't even reach down to pet the dog without chancing getting bitten. The dog has bitten everyone in the family and has gotten a couple of neighbors too. Her owner would yell at her and when she was a puppy the woman would smack her when she had accidents or wouldn't do what the woman wanted her to do. If you train with love you will end up with a dog that is happy to do anything you want to teach her to do. Good luck, and remember to walk her after her meals and first thing in the morning and when she wakes up from a nap. Also, when she has an accident, you might want to use something like Nature's miracle which will bond with the left over odor from the accident and remove the smell that will attract the dog back to the same spot. Don't use ammonia as it has the same properties as urine...(I just thought of that today, I have had problems with my cats spraying and I've been using ammonia to clean the areas -DUH- they have been coming back to the same spots and spraying time after time. Another thing, if you don't want to crate the dog you could use a play pen. I used one for my Rotties when they were puppies and they loved it. I also had a cage for them when I had to have them in a motel. When they were 18 months and weighed 75 pounds apiece they decided to crawl back in their baby cage. I was sure I would have to cut them out because the cage was about 30 by 36 by 12 inches...so with two dogs that were 30 inches at the shoulders you can believe it was a tight fit. Somehow they did manage to get out on their own, but it was close. I hid the cage after they did that stunt...I had gotten it out because I was fostering a litter of kittens with their mother, and I had just taken them to the rescue group. But whatever you use; whether a crate, cage, play pen etc, it gives the dog a sense of security and protection.