Hi Kittysoo - I havent managed to post in a while either. What with Easter, my DD is home for a few weeks and I have decided to gut the house. 2 trips to the tip and charity shop later my house is a lot lighter. I have 2 large tins of paint calling me too but still need to do a bit more de cluttering before I start painting. Anyway less of that. You sound as if you are doing really well - you can not be in control all of the time till they are trained a bit more. You are certainly going in the right direction so dont be too hard on yourself. I took Tootsie to a dog training group for a few months when we first got her but it wasnt a good group so we gave up - also Tootsie decided to do all of her business in the hall that it was held in. Honestly you wouldnt think such a small dog had so much in her On our walk this evening Tootsie did her business and I was getting a bag out of my pocket but didnt see where 'it' landed so I was combing through the grass looking for it and Toots was off lead and I didnt notice that 2 dogs were coming from both directions. She tried to go off to meet one of the dogs but luckily I had just been doing some re call with her so she came right back when I called It has been hard keeping her off the furniture with my DD at home but she has started to learn her place. Need to start training my DD now