I screwed up when i got arwen, my oldest chihuahua, my husband was working two jobs, and because of our living situation i couldn't just stick her in another to room to cry it out, i let her sleep in my bed, and i love it. Now my newest puppy also sleeps with me at night, my husband works nights and the bed would be really lonely without them. But i have to find a way to potty train them both... I am unwilling to crate them, as they never have been, nor am i willing to hit my dogs. Please someone help me,there has to be a way

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I wish I could say I knew of another way, but I don't. Crate training is IMO the only way to be efficient and effective. The dogs (again IMO) appreciate the security and can catch on to what you are asking easily in comparison to roaming free with no direction. You might want to reconsider your stand on crate training.

as melanie said, crate training its the only wy, unless you can be around them the whole day to give them direction even that its hard because youll have a LOT of accidents, y trained to use pee wee pads, its hard, and you have to keep a good eye on them, you kan use the drops, they really help

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It is possible to condition extremely positive emotion towards the crate, and still have them sleep in the bed at night. Unless... Are they peeing in the bed at night? Or are you such a light sleeper you won't wake up if they do?

If crating is not an option, and you won't consider it at all, then maybe tethering to you and lots of leashed walks to a potty spot (pop out the door, pop back in) is your next best bet. And when I say lots, I mean LOTS... Like every hour at first, every 2 hours, then 3, and so on.

You'll have to either invest the time in conditioning the dogs to a crate (a clicker, some treats, and patience...) or you'll invest the time in taking them out a lot. Either is fine, really, depending what you prefer. If you don't mind running dogs out a lot, and not being able to leave the house without them until they learn, then that works. If you've got a less flexible schedule, crating is likely to be most successful.

Good luck!

Are you asking because they go to the bathroom on your bed? Odie was crate trained at first (only at night and when we went out for an hour or so), but it didn't last long. Other than that she's been trained without the help of a crate, and she's been sleeping on our bed for a long time. Are you looking to train them to go outside or use pee pads?

mine dont sleep in a crate they sleep in my bed, have never hit them or anything. They know when i say "potty time" that im going 2 let them go out so they can do there business. During the day they have free range 2 go in and out with our doggie door, but at night they sleep in my bed, have had maybe 1 or 2 accidents on the bed but all i said was bad n said no and they pretty much learned not on the bed.Now theres never accidents, but i do take em out at night several times before we go 2 sleep, then first thing in the morning when i wake up they go out for potty time again. gl hope it wprks out for u.

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No, they have never had a single accident in the bed, its more of them sneaking off into a corner of the house when I'm not home, my husband sleeps all day. They will go outside, i just want them to go on a pee pad if they have no other options available to them. I couldn't crate train arwen because she has slept with me well over a year, and bella has for a few months now. and they get super excited when they know its time to go to bed...

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I never used a crate or hit bijoux. It just meant that when I was home I had to watch her like a hawk she couldn't be out of my site for a moment and when I noticed her circling I took her right to the pad.

At night I put a pad in my room and closed the door so she couldn't leave.she also sleeps with me in bed at night. During the day put her in a smaller space so she wouldn't pee all over the house.

Bijoux was potty trained in like 3 days, but she also came to me 1/2 pad trained from her breeder lol

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