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Oh they are cute but so very naughty especially since they are 2 brothers. The last 2 weeks when 2 of us are on school holidays....we sort of spoilt them a bit by letting them play around the rumpus. Now that we are back to full schedule, they always bite and tear up the papers we lay at their cage area. So we have been coming home to messes. Yes they have been to puppy school.....it is pretty funny as they are the smallest ones there and they always run away when the other puppies come near. We have mastered the sit position....especially when being fed. Now to only master the toilet training.

Here is a pic of them. I cannot seem to catch a proper pic of Scruffy (the black one) as he always looks away and cannot sit still. However, he has the Schnauzer look. Ollie (brown one) was good enough to sit still for me to take the pic. Also, we have mastered the sit command. Now just to get them to use the pet loo. They prefer the training pads so far and have been good in using it during the night. We are all going to try replacing the training pads with the pet loo now. Fingers cross they will be good and use it. I did find separating them while training is so much better. They have a tendency of not listening when they are playing with each other. I will also start separating them so that they will get used to the separation later on.

I recently got 2 mini schnauzer cross Jap Spitz and they are brothers at 11 weeks old. There are 4 of us staying together with them. We are trying to toilet train them which is getting pretty chaotic. We are not doing the crate training as we are mostly out during the day for work so we gave them a caged up area with their bed at one corner and training pads at another. When we are home, we let them out to play and eat and do their business. I am just wondering if it is wrong to let them loose outside to do their business and play? Should we change to leashing them when we let them out and go potty and only then let them loose? We did try doing that but they insist not to do it on the pet loo we have outside. We wait rather long but they do not want to do it. Once we get tired of waiting and let them loose, they straight away do it on the ground outside and not on the pet loo. I am wondering what we are doing wrong? We also let them run around the rumpus area during the day when we are at home. But then they urinate everywhere other than the training pads that is at their cage. The cage will be opened so they have easy access to the pads. Is this wrong? Help!! Thanks!