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06-15-2008, 06:44 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: saint james, MN USA
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| i'm losing my mind over potty training We got Gabby when she was 9 weeks old. She's 5 months now. She's still not potty trained. I originally got litter and a box to get her trained, but she'd poop or pee and then get it and the litter all over her feet. The vet told me to put puppy pads in the box. so i did that plus i had two other pad in different places in the house. since we both work she has to be in her cage for about 9 1/2 hours a day with 30 minutes out after 4 hours when my husband comes home for lunch. the cage is about three feet long and 2 /12 feet wide. she absolutely hates it. she knows my routine in the mornings and will hide from me and then when i get ready to put her in, she shakes and sometimes gets the hiccups. also many times, she'll poop or pee in the cage. what really bothers me is she'll poop or pee right next to the puppy pads. and she's got two other spots in the house she'll pee on frequently. now that summer is here, she only has to be in the cage 4 hours....i'm home in the afternoons. i let her out all the time, but she's still peeing in the house. i'm glad she'll go on the pads, but i want her to always go outside and only use the pads if we're gone for extended time periods. i LOVE this dog, but have never had a dog that has been so hard to train. I want to remove the pads from my hose but of course i don't dare..even with the pads there, she still pees on the floor. i'm at my wit's end. |
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06-15-2008, 07:09 AM | #2 |
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| She is probably as confused as I am reading that. You can just set pads out and expect her to figure it out. What are you doing to reward her for going in the right place? She doesn't understand that it's OK to go in the house only under certain circumstances. If you want to train her to go outside only, my suggestion is to get rid of the pads completely and work on house training her when you are home. Then you can hire someone, possibly a responsible high school kid who is off for the summer, to let her out every 2 hours until she is big/old enough to hold it for 4 hours. She hates the crate because she is in it for 9 hours. My dogs are crate trained, but when we used the crates to housetrain them it was something like 30 minutes in the crate, out to pee, free for 30 minutes if they did something outside, then back in the crate 30 minutes OR the crate was used when we couldn't watch them, like if I was showering or cooking dinner, and otherwise they were kept in the same room where they could be supervised. We also bell trained them so that they could tell us when they needed to go out. Even being 2 and 3, they still need to go out about every hour during their active times and at least every 4 hours even when they are napping and being lazy during the day. It's not easy, but at 5 months all is not lost. She barely has any bladder control. Your job is to reinforce where is the right place to go so that once she starts being able to control herself a little more, she will know just where to go!
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06-15-2008, 07:35 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: saint james, MN USA
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| I always give her a treat and really praise her when she goes outside. What bothers me so much is that she'll go potty outside and then come in and maybe 5 or 10 minutes later go either on the pad or on the floor. I tries taking the pads away, but she really went on the floor then. I don't mean to confuse her, but there's no way I can let her destroy our house. she does a good job of going outside, but she hasn't figured it out about not going inside. |
06-15-2008, 04:18 PM | #4 |
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| We got Bailey trained in two months - the best suggestion I have it that you keep her confined in one room and watch, watch, watch her. The trick is to catch her in the act and correct her mistake. I also laid down blankets to save the carpet - then washed the blanket after a mistake (to remove the odor). We too, bell trained. When she started peeing in the house, we'd scoop her up, take her paw, tap the service bell and say "outside". It works - but it's not easy. I'm not kidding two solid months of watching the dog and nothing else. If I had to take my eyes off her - she went in the crate. It was worth it. Two months in exchange for a lifetime of a trust. Now she hates the crate - so we don't use them. But we do use an exercise pen when we're at work - and she's just fine in it. She gets a treat everytime she goes in it. We're gone for 8 hours a day - 4 days a week. I never tried to potty train her in the pen - I just cleaned it up everyday. I keep a litter box with a pee pad in it. Sometimes she'd go on the pee pad, sometimes she'd miss it - and often she'd chew it up. When she was about 8 months old - she started holding it all day and quit chewing up the pads. Now, once in a while she uses the pee pad - but very rarely. They learn to keep their space clean - it comes natural. Good luck - and please, please give her at least two monts of your undivided attention. It is sooooo worth it.
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06-15-2008, 05:03 PM | #5 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: saint james, MN USA
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| thanks for your advice. i try to catch her in the act, too...but boy, she's so quick. it's hard to get mad at her because she's so darn cute. and she knows when she did wrong. but I understand it takes patience. sometimes it's just so hard to have it. and i know that i spoil her. she's already VERY attached to me as I am to her. I'll keep you posted. and you're right, she's only 5 months old. |
06-24-2008, 08:16 AM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | Lola would only go outside for her first elimination of the day. Other than that she would go inside the house. Pee pads were recommended by my vet so I tried them. They worked a little, but not as well as I wanted them to. Plus I wanted her to learn to go outside. When I took them away Lola would go in the house, in the spots where her pads used to be. I tried to watch her all the time but it was impossible. She never went in her crate while I was away so that was good. Eventually she got the hang of it. Of course she's still a puppy and I know even full grown dogs have accidents, but she's doing really well and has learned to eliminate outside most of the time. It is worth taking the time to train her. You'll be thankful you did. |
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