8 month old puppy wees on the carpet

[Julietta05]

Hello,

I have 8 moth old bichon friese. She is generally house trained but she can only access freely the part of the house without carpets and doormats. She does not have really accidents on hard floor, she goes out to the garden to do so. However, if she has access to the carpet she is like to wee on it. The same applies to doormats even the dusting sheets that one of the workmen used (even if the back door is open). I thought we passed that stage but it gets difficult as everyone needs to remember to close the door to the rooms so she does not enter.
How to stop her weeing on the carpets. I have tried to reward her when she does the business outside etc. That works but only up to a point.

If she's never had free access to areas with carpet, she maybe doesn't realise she can't pee there.

Dogs don't generalise behaviour very well, so it sounds like she thinks that because carpet is soft like grass, she can pee on it. Can you try having her there with you on a lead and then you can remove her and take her outside if she shows signs of wanting to pee?

I partially get your reasoning. However, initially she had access to carpet part of the house and we had puppy pads but she had so many accidents. I can smell urine in the house (I cleaned the carpet with ensyme cleaner). When she was little after the accidents on the carpet I would take her outside to the garden, I would praise her for weeing on the grass etc. If I would catch her in the Act I would say no and again took her out.
It is thick cream coloured carpet so today I only realised when I stood on the wet patch

It's possible that the sent is still there and she thinks it's OK to toilet on the carpet.

Get a carpet cleaner and use Kennel Cleaner with it.
Then only let her in the carpet area when you can give her 100% attention. As soon as she sniffes (or squats) or does whatever she does before a wee pick her up and take her outside. She should get the hang of it quickly!

Puppy pads basically teach puppies that it's OK to wee on soft absorbent surfaces indoors, and she's generalising that to carpets. You need to go back to square 1 with housetraining, lots of praise and a treat for weeing outside, and make sure she's been for a wee before she has access to carpeted areas. Hire a Rug Doctor with the special pet detergent to deep-clean all the carpets to make sure the scent is completely removed.

All puppy pads do is encourage them to wee inside, so that won't have helped.

I would allow her in the carpeted areas but go right back to basics - don't tell her off for accidents, just ignore them and clean them up with the enzyme spray. Take her out every thirty minutes, after play, training, food, eating, drinking and naps. Lots of praise and a reward for peeing outside.

You also need to take her out every time she sniffs, circles or squats - ideally whisk her up as she does any of those things and pop her in the garden to "finish", then reward and praise again.

Keeping them on a lead in the house can help too, so they can't sneak off and wee in a corner when you're not looking.