Hi Christie, Your dogs sound like a riot! My dog comes home from "Bootcamp" today! She's 1/2 border collie and 1/2 black Lab.She's 5 mo old and weighs almost 40 lbs already. Her name is Grace. Anyway, I've never housebroken a puppy. I had her 2 mo, from 9 weeks to 4 mo and she still wasn't housebroken. A gal who trains puppies agreed to take her for what I could afford. Now it's been 3 weeks, she's been trained for a week and is ready to come home.She has been trained to ring a bell that hangs on the door, and Sherry is giving me the bell.Yep...I'm totally in love with my puppy and it's been a long 3 weeks but will be worth it to not deal with messes. Too bad we can't show off our loved ones **smile**.I don't even know how to put my own picture up.