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11-17-2012, 12:34 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Toronto, Canada
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| Will he ever go in his tent!? I have a very tiny morkie puppy (about 10 weeks old, 1.5 pounds) that I am trying to potty train indoors. He is too small to be taken outside (he shakes like a leaf everytime he goes out for even a second). I bought him a big indoor puppy tent-house, which I divided with a barrier so that the front would be his home and the back would be his potty. I cut a small door so that he can get to the back easily. However, he really does not like going in there and always runs as far away as possible to the back of the apartment to go to the bathroom. I know that a dog's instinct is not to go where he 'lives' but I'm wondering if this is something I can train him to get over, or is it doing him damage by trying to force him to go in the back of his house? |
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11-17-2012, 05:43 AM | #2 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio U.S.A.
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| My suggestion would be to start w/ just a pee pad (we use the washable ones - they're really not that bad and far more safe than disposable ones, particularly for puppies that like to chew/destroy . Eventually, once he's trained to go on the pad, you could move it into the tent. It may just be the tent - being closed in, etc. That's something your puppy may need time to overcome. My pups have a pen that they can see out of and we keep a pee pad at one end of it w/ their bed and food at the other end. JMO Good luck!
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