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08-14-2011, 07:11 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
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| Need some housebreaking and separation anxiety help. Well, this is frustrating. I just wrote about my puppy for about thirty minutes and lost all of it because my cookies expired for this site. I have a Yorkie named Sophie. She is six months old. Her instinct to remain clean seems to be intact. Sophie does not know how to communicate that she needs to go outside. The word "outside" to her means "bark wildly to get out of the crate." She has been in my care for one week. At this point in time, she has had a single accident in her bed. She urinated, though I doubt it was willingly. Earlier today, she urinated on the kitchen floor immediately after being released from her crate. Sophie does not know how to tell us she wants to go out. We need a verbal cue in case we are asleep. Sophie is fed twice per day - around 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Her water is removed from her crate at 8:00 PM. She happily plays, sleeps, and eats in her crate as long as someone is present. If Sophie is left alone, she begins crying and barking wildly. She does so for long periods of time - I left to take the garbage out today, and 20 minutes later she was still barking. I have given her various treats and toys to occupy her in her crate, but none seem to help. Even if she is dead asleep, walking into another room raises her cry-alarm. She cries when my girlfriend and I go to bed, as our bed is on the other side of the room. We absolutely do not respond to her crying, but we don't know what to do about it. We're going to be out for decent portions of the day for school soon, and we need to get her to calm down. We need to overcome her separation anxiety and teach her to communicate that she needs to go out. On another note, her poops seem quite odd. I've heard talk of dogs pooping 20 minutes after eating; Sophie, who eats standard dry dog food, seems to take an extremely long time. She pooped a lot about an hour ago despite the fact she hadn't eaten anything (save a few treats) in over 12 hours. Is this normal? |
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08-14-2011, 08:31 PM | #2 |
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| Welcome to YT. How often are you taking Sophie for walks? Have you tried doing the every hour or two hour walks? You will need to use a word that she can associate going potty. I think that she is probably giving you signals but you just may not know them. I would try putting her on a strict every hour schedule for now. Once you take her out of her crate, take her immediately outside, use a phrase only for this purpose. As for separation anxiety, have you tried desensitiving her to you leaving? Try going into another room for a few seconds and then come back in. Keep doing this so she will see that you will be back. Don't make any fuss or speak to her, just keep going and coming back in. Increase the times as you see she is progressing. Good luck.
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08-16-2011, 06:14 PM | #3 |
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| Good luck with training the baby |
08-17-2011, 02:28 PM | #4 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
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| Sophie has been doing well with going outside. No accidents since the one reported last time. Her separation anxiety seems pretty much unfazed by trying to desensitize her, though. Sometimes she whines when we're only a few feet away from her. She also has a barking problem. She barks at everyone. I don't want people thinking she's mean, considering she isn't at all. Any advice on those things? |
08-17-2011, 03:09 PM | #5 |
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| She is new to you and has recently been displaced. She is attaching to you as her stability, since her whole life has just changed. I would try to be patient w her and keep working on the desensitizing. Eventually she will become more secure in her new life and have faith that when you leave you will return. It is her survival instincts taking over right now. As for the barking, she is still very much a puppy and sounds like she is excitedly vocalizing. They need to express themselves also, just like we do. Right now while she is adjusting, I would let her express herself. As soon as she is adjusting a little better and feeling more secure w you, then I would start training the "no bark" command.
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08-23-2011, 09:19 AM | #6 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
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| Had class today, so I was away from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Sophie pooped in her bed. I'm worried about her becoming desensitized to going to the bathroom in her crate. I don't know how to respond to this. Any advice? Is she going to be okay, or is it a sign she has no problem with going in her bed? |
08-25-2011, 11:05 AM | #7 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
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| Sophie has figured out that barking gets her out of her crate, so we can't use that as a sign she needs out anymore. She just barked a few times, looked at me, peed in her bed, then buried it in a blanket. I'm very frustrated with her now. I've set the divider in her crate to be quite small - it is about 18 by 24 inches now. I know that's very small, but I've had enough of these accidents. I know she could've held it, as she had been out recently and had not drank much water. Is she broken of her instinct to stay clean? I need some help here. |
08-26-2011, 06:34 AM | #8 |
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| I would start over with her as if you just got her from her mother. Routine is key to her breaking bad habits. Letting her cry it out and ignoring her wildly barking, she will stop this as well. I'd do the 7 day training with her that's advised on here. Feed her on a schedule and take her out to do her biz and play on a schedule as well. Even if she's already done her biz in her crate, still give her that potty time. Eventually all this routine, she will know when it's play time, potty time, etc and know that she will be getting out. This will allow her to be less anxious with her behaviors because she knows that she can count on you. Sticking to it even when it looks like it's not working, she'll relearn. Yorkies are very smart dogs. Last edited by angieNchloe; 08-26-2011 at 06:36 AM. |
03-21-2012, 06:17 AM | #9 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Mississippi
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| I know this is several months old, but I wanted to ask how your pup is progressing with separation. This is my 2nd day home with our 5 mo old and I have to go back to work tomorrow. I've started practicing locking her in the bathroom (large bathroom) today. She has some pee pads, her crate, and her bed in there. She yelps like crazy and peed on the floor a couple of feet away from the pad. This was after about 5 minutes :P |
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