My cousin just recently moved (like last week) to Arizona with his girlfriend and moved into her parents house. The parents already have a dog and said that my cousin could not bring his husky puppy (I'd guess 5-6 months old) with him. So he left her in the care of my mother.

Aurora is untrained but a complete sweetheart. She gets so excited when she sees someone she knows and likes that she will piddle on the ground/floor or on your shoe from all the excitement. That is really the issue. She continues to use the bathroom in the house and my mother hates it when dogs do this. She has considered giving the dog up for adoption since she doesn't want to deal with it but I told her that I wouldn't let her do that and that despite the fact that I already have two cats in my new apartment, I would take Aurora on if only to save her from being adopted by another family when she is not even my mother's dog to give away. So my mom and I worked out a deal. I will take Aurora for the weekend, picking her up on Friday and keeping her until Sunday night or Monday morning, giving my mom a few days off from having her. During this weekend long stay, I will begin to train Aurora to go to the bathroom outside, quit her biting habit, lay down, come, stay, ect. She's incredibly intelligent but I'm worried about the bathroom in the house problem.

My apartment complex gave us carpet instead of hardwood,(we asked for hardwood, they told us it was hardwood, we walk in and we have carpet) and that will be harder to clean pet messes from than hardwood. We have access to a carpet steamer/cleaner but I really want to have her well trained before my cousin comes back in 6 months to get her.

Any ideas? I can easily train her to sit, come, stay, ect, but the housetraining is another thing. (Pictures to come on Friday!)