Advancements in Dog House Training

As many of you know, Pepper's favorite room in my house is the spare bedroom. There she likes to lay in the sun in the afternoon and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping. She likes to lay in the sun there because that room gets direct sunlight and so becomes really warm in the afternoon. This of course makes it the worst possible room in the house for her have accidents because warmth + dog piss = even more foul odor.

Recently when I had constant visitors for ~2 weeks, I noticed something. Pepper does not get up in the middle of the night if my bedroom door is closed and thus no accidents (which is good since half the time my grandmother was sleeping in the spare room and I never would have heard the end of it). After everyone left, I returned to sleeping with my bedroom door open at night and Pepper returned to peeing in the spare room at night.

So Monday night I started to close my bedroom door to test her and sure enough, the past couple of nights she's slept through the night with no accidents. Who knew that's all it took. Now watch her wake up tonight just because I've blogged about this! Now if only I could get her to lose those 4 lbs she's gained since last fall . . .