Animals and nice furnishings/homes

[MyPithyPoster]

I wasn’t sure whether to post this in the doghouse or here but I’m just after some advice. Really we moved into a real fixer upper. It needed everything doing and I’m gradually working my way through the Property started with the front room. Which permanently has the door shut the animals can’t get near it.

I’m doing most of the upstairs this year.
And then I’ll just be left with the kitchen
I’ve got some beautiful designs. I’m gonna have underfloor heating. It’s going to be gorgeous. The only thing that’s really weighing heavily on my mind is that my French bulldog is not toilet trained. She will pee on pee pads but she won’t go outside or let me know that she wants to go outside.
And of course she inevitably misses sometimes.
Additionally, I’ve got two cats who do use an extra large litter tray which is changed every day without fail but again there are accidents.
The quotes I’ve had for the kitchen and nearly £20,000 and I’m just so reluctant to spend it given the circumstances
Has anybody worked out a winning formula or do I just have to wait until nature takes its course? They will not be replaced.

You have the litter tray and pee pads in your kitchen? Could they not be relocated because that's a bit grim. What's wrong with the dog that it isn't trained? Have you worked with a dog trainer?

The poor dog got moved around a lot so I think the window for teaching her to whistle outside was missed basically.
No, there is nowhere else other than the kitchen if they’re not in the kitchen they’re on my wooden floors which obviously absorbs a lot more if there’s an accident.

Obviously, the pee pads and the litter isn’t left the minute anything is produced. It’s removed.

If you are not going to train the dog then you are going to need a large tray and put the pad in the middle. However, train her. They soon get the idea. Takes a couple of weeks of close monitoring and action.

I would house train the dog before spending lots of money on refurbishment.

French bulldogs are notoriously hard to toilet train. Not that it can't be done but it's generally much more difficult than with most other breeds.

How old is the dog? As another disadvantage of them is that they don't tend to live very long.

Are the cats indoor only… do you have a downstairs toilet you could store the tray?
As for the dog you need to start training from scratch.

So she is 4 1/2 years old. I’m already mindful for one of a better word that she’s on a downward descent.
The cats can go outside. I’ve got like a courtyard that I’ve made into a cat so they do have the option but obviously they’d rather have a clean litter tray and it is in the downstairs toilet part of the kitchen so it’s not where I’m cooking food for example.
Without being too graphic though I’ll come down in the morning and the dog will have missed the piss pads There will be wee on the kitchen floor. The cats will be walking through it and jumping on the sofa.
It literally turns my stomach
The sofas aren’t old at all, but there’s no way they’ll be kept once everything is done.
I’ve got one of those spot cleaners from VAX and that’s out every week

Why? - just why? Why would anyone have these mobile crap factories in their home? - and in their KITCHEN!?

Hey! My puppy sleeps in the kitchen too but he does his business in the garden. The real issue here is that OP has a dog that is partly incontinent and I don’t see an easy solution to that problem.

Because the animals were bought before we were made homeless. At the time I had a four bedroom detached house with a 100 foot garden for them to play safely within.
So the alternative was to put them all down because they would not have been rehomed no matter what the Nice adverts on the TV say, they would’ve been put into the pound for six weeks before they were executed.
Hope that answers all your questions.

Is there anything that the vet could do ? I don’t want her to be struggling or in any sort pain. She has been spayed.

I don't think the vet could probably offer you anything but advice, and that is free on the internet.

I don't know the breed but someone above said they are hard to toilet train. Still, I think all you can do is go back to basics like you would with a tiny puppy. Take them outside every 15 minutes or so and heap praise on them when they do a wee or poo outside. Plus whatever motivates them - our puppy is a Lab so he used to get a piece of kibble every time he weed in the right place. Some dogs may respond better to praise but Labs love food above everything.