Nighttime mistake

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My 4 month old is very good, but since I am home I take her out whenever she seems to be antsy... At night after dinner I'll find she peed in the far kitchen corner and I never saw or heard her and I was right n the kitchen. My question is how do you know when your puppy needs to go out? Why don't I get any signs late at night like I (think) she gives me during the day? Maybe I take her out too often during the day so there isn't a "sign?" Or is it the fact that it is later and we are tired?
 
There's no such thing as taking a four-month old puppy out too often, LOL! At that age, they just go when they have to and it's more luck than training when they perform outside. I have one now who's 5 months and although she knows she should go outside, she can't always hold it and doesn't realize yet she should tell me.

Puppies don't have the capability to control their elimination muscles until they're 6 months old, so you have a way to go. The best solution is to crate her or put her in a pen when you can't watch her so she won't be as inclined to make mistakes. And keep taking her out frequently! It's not you...it will get better, honest!
 
I taught my pup Piper to ring a bell when he needed to go outside (he was probably 13 weeks old when I started) he's now almost 6 1/2 months old and rings it every time he needs to go outside. Before I taught him this I also was finding it difficult to predict when he needed to go outside (sometimes I'd take him out and he'd pee on the carpet not long after coming back in), it was frustrating to say the least lol. I think having the bell helped him understand he had to go outside to pee (and of course being rewarded for ringing the bell). What I did was I hung a bell on the wall right beside the door and when I took him outside I rang it and said go pee outside, after me doing this maybe 4 times he started to ring it. Sometimes he just wanted to play and I'd take him back in and keep an eye on him then reward him when he did pee. It required patience (of course haha) but he's only had 2 accidents in the house in over 2 months (usually when he's so wrapped up in playing he forgets to ring the bell). Good luck with your training:biggrin2:
 
When we watch our friend's sheltie, Pogo, I automatically take him out right after he eats to be safe. It seems he "really" needs to go at these times.
 
We did the bell too. We had a hard time knowing when Shelby needed to go out and the bell really worked well.

We now no longer use the bell and she will go to the door and cry or she will look at us and cry.

It just takes time, be patient you will get there.
 
Count me as another fan of bell training. We live in an apartment, so we have to take Oberon for a walk whenever he has to go. When we started, we took him out about 10 minutes after he ate, when he woke up, and after play time. When we took him out, we'd say, "Ring your bells," and use his paw or nose to hit the bells. After a few days, he got it, and would ring the bells himself when we told him to. After about a month, he figured out to ring his bells and we'd take him out.
 
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