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01-24-2009, 04:36 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: DesPlaines, IL, U.S.A
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| Confused Hi! I have an 11 month old yorkie, and I am still having problems with potty training him. Basically my issue is: He holds it while I'm at work; but he will go in his crate EVERY night no matter what. I have asked a lot of people what to do (even my vet), and I have tried everything. At first I thought it was a bladder problem; but if he can hold it all day I don't understand how he will go at night (I take him out right before bed and cut off his water supply early). Also, I do not go to bed that early (the absolute earliest is 10pm). The other thing is that he sometimes will pee in the crate at 5am; but other times 2 or 3 am. He starts barking, and I assume he needs to go out so I get up, and he has already gone! Do you think it is because he knows I'm home? I think it is either that, or maybe because he wants to eat. Sometimes I think it's that because once I get up and clean his crate (and take him out again) he will run right in there for food and then go back to sleep. (but-he really does not like the crate otherwise). Another thing is...when I am leaving for work (about an hour after I feed him), he will not get up to go outside to go potty (he is sleeping), and then he still holds it all day!!! I don't get it. Also, he sometimes will let me know that he needs to go out by ringing a bell; but he still will go in the house too! He knows what the word "outside" means, because if I say it he will run to the door. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I'm not even mad anymore...I just have no clue! |
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01-24-2009, 10:18 AM | #2 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Westbank
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| Peeing in the crate Lilly is almost 4 months, so she has pee'd in her crate. These are the things that have helped me. -Take the puppies water away a few hours before bed -Make sure the puppy pee's when your going to bed -I put enough blankets in the crate, so she had enough room to move, but not alot. Make sure the crate is not overly huge as well. When she on rare occasion she barks, like yours does. I wake up thinking she need to go, and there is already pee in there, so I put her in the kitchen, lights out, and put her back in the cage with the pee. Because i have thick blankets in there, the pee is mostly soaked up in them, but she still doesn't like being stuck in there with her own pee for a few more hours. |
01-24-2009, 11:30 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: DesPlaines, IL, U.S.A
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| Thanks Hoggbond- Thanks for the advice...Unfortunatly the problem is that I have tried almost all of them!!! That is my big issue. I have not tried really stuffing his crate with blankets; but I know if I put him back in there with his own pee, he would never stop barking...he is relentless! It is so frusterating because all of the things you said, and those that I have tried SHOULD work. It would be different if he was only a few months old; but he is almost 1 year old. Is it possible that it is out of anger or spite? Someone told me that yorkie's are that way. I mean, I just left the house for 6 hours, and when I got back his cage was dry! I leave it really comfortable for him and with lots of toys, and when I'm home I let him run around and play for hours (I do block a lot of the areas of my home off; but he still has tons of room to play). Maybe he does it at night because he knows that I'm home and he is mad that he is not with me (I didn't mention that he is really attached to me for some reason, and he has been like that since the first time I met him...he is not like that with my husband). I think that he thinks he is a human baby (he even watches TV-even basketball!! lol) People say that maybe he does not get to play enough; but I do play with him, and he is super active-so I don't think that is it. Even if he plays all day and night, and I take him out right before bed, and cut of his water supply early he will still will wake up after a few hours with a wet cage. It's funny, the first night that I had him he did not have an accident, and I thought I was really lucky...little did I know what was to come. I will try what you said and hope for the best...I'm just worried because I feel like he should have outgrown accidents in the crate/house by now. I honestly feel like he will never get it. He also has some major behavior problems (not listening)...luckily I got some advice about buying a "bully stick", and that seemed to help so far. I wonder if it's all connected. |
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