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11-19-2014, 07:03 PM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: prescott valley az usa
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| I'm not crazy, promise Buddybear will be 4 months this Fri. I just got him last Thurs. and he has been trained to go out with his parents. The stairs up and down multiple times a day is playing havoc with my body. Our younger son lives in CO and has 2 flights of stairs, so using the pee pad would be ideal. I would like to teach him to go on the puppy pads. He has only peed on one once [by mistake?] He will do his business outside, in his time frame, but has begun eating rocks and sticks! I've seen too many vet shows where rocks were the cause of surgery, and I don't want that. I love him dearly already and he sleeps from 10 to 7ish with no peeps except an occasional whine when first put in his cage. I have a play area where his cage and pee pads are. DH brought home a spray that goes on the pad for him . . . .don't know if it just takes time for this scent thing to work or not. When we get trained a little better, going pee/poo outside would be fine, but right now he doesn't know any commands except 'come' and "peepee buddy. " His first trip ever to a groomer is this Friday. How many new situations can you do with him before he's on overload. I'm taking him out to socialize with people several times a week, but he is frightened of bigger dogs [anything that is over his 4#] I've wanted a Yorkie for over 35 years, and don't want to mess up this little man. TIA, Jennifer, Buddy and Tigger the cat mom [btw, Tigger is 13 and plays really well with this new puppy. ] |
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11-25-2014, 03:31 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Toluca Lake, CA
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| Hi and welcome to YT it's sounds like you are off to a good start. My Buster is trained to go on the pee pads and outdoors. He prefers to be a big dog and go outside but the pads are great because he pee's frequently and has never learned to hold it for a long time so I am comfortable that he has a choice. It did take him a while to be consistent and we have occasional mistakes. I have not been able to figure out how to let him know that with just the front paws on the pad we get aiming mistakes. Trust their instincts with dogs they have a better sense of the dogs intentions and being as small as they are even a friendly big dog can hurt our little guys. In time he may get more comfortable but safer is better. Yorkies are wonderful companions and the unconditional love and kisses are the BEST.
__________________ CarolynBuster Brown "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything." |
11-25-2014, 08:18 PM | #3 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: prescott valley az usa
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| Thank you for your reply! How did you get your Buster to go on the pee pads and not just chew them up? The spray stuff my hubby bought hasn't worked.....I'm thinking when it gets freezing out I will just have to leave him in his play area with a pee pad and not take him out. . . that is my only solution? I'm back to doing research on line I guess. |
12-04-2014, 04:12 PM | #4 |
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| I have been lucky Buster never chewed up his pee pads now paper receipts and money he likes to shred, luckily it was only a dollar bill. We would watch for signs that he had to go and would place him on the pad and give the command. If he was not ready we would wait 15 minutes and then bring him back to the pad and give the pee command. It took a while for him to get it.
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12-04-2014, 04:36 PM | #5 | |
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This made me giggle! lol
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12-04-2014, 07:31 PM | #6 | |
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Teddy only ever chewed his pee pads when they were directly on the floor. We bought a cat box, with very high sides, where we put his pee pads. He jumps in and out of the box with no problems at all and doesn't chew the pads. No aiming problems since everything goes in the box and the box even accommodates his leg lifting with no overshoot! He was trained by 16 weeks and we bought him at 12 weeks. He's now 14 months old. They do have pee pad holders which help them to not chew the pads so might be worth trying. Although I never had to use spray to get Teddy to use his pads, I know that my mom used some drops and found those to be better than spray. Good luck! | |
12-04-2014, 09:08 PM | #7 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: prescott valley az usa
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| I contacted the breeder as Buddybear didn't want to go out in the rain. She said he would go in a cheap cat box with litter in it. WRONG!!!!!!! He digs like a badger trying to go down to china flinging cat litter all over the place. Next idea?????? I haven't a clue! I'm not giving up! one of these days we will have Success! |
12-04-2014, 11:58 PM | #8 | |
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Yeah, I think litter is a bad idea. Terriers are known for digging. I just put the puppy pad at the bottom of the cat box and Teddy used it from there... Good luck!! | |
12-05-2014, 10:03 AM | #9 | |
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12-05-2014, 06:49 PM | #10 |
YT Addict | Wonder if its to late to teach boo to a pad. Lol he wanted out i had went outearlier but he didnt go sohe kept fussing at me then scratching my closet door. So i opened he runback and forth looking up. I figured it out i go in get my coat and shoes on to take them out. He wanted me to get my coat on to go out so i took him. But hes bad about pooing in the house. Hes eight months old wonder if i could teach him to go on a pad. |
12-06-2014, 06:41 PM | #11 |
Tinkerbell, My Little Flutterpup Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Beautiful California!
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| You might try taking the pad outside with you and when he goes pee soak up some of it on the pad so his scent is on it and put that in his pen, see if he gets the idea then. Duck tape it to the floor so he can't play with it. Last edited by chloeandj; 12-06-2014 at 06:43 PM. |
12-06-2014, 07:50 PM | #12 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: TX USA
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| I gave up on the disposable potty pads since I have a poodle that seems to think he's supposed to grab the corner of them and ruuuuuun around the room with what looks like a cape flowing behind him. I work in a hospital, so I tried the washable bed pads - they're perfect! I have three now so I can swap and wash them as needed. Even the house trained pot-bellied pig with use them in a pinch. If you're squeamish about washing them in your washer - do like I do and take them to the laundry mat (especially after the pig uses them - ick). I also put a cup of white vinegar in the last rinse to keep them fresher smelling and in nice weather, just hang them outside to dry. Someone once posted a link to some really nice reusable pads here, you can even choose the fabric/color of your own pads. I just don't know how to locate that link, but I wouold love to have nice looking ones for holidays, etc. and just use the plain boring ones I have now for every day use. |
12-06-2014, 08:50 PM | #13 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Flagstaff, AZ
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| Hi BuddyBear, I'm just north of you in Flag. My Yorkie, Ollie is 4 1/2 months old. He too tends to go outside and do his business and on his pee pads along with shredding them up at times. My hands are terribly bloody and scabbed from him nipping and the teething process. I have tried many things, direct his attention to something else other than me, use apple bitter spray, yell Owww! Nothing seems to work! Today I guess I made progress. It was the first day he actually sat on my lap and let me brush him without nipping. A treat here, a treat there, I see he was panting so this must be somewhat of a stressful process for him. I can't understand for the life of me when out in the yard playing and tossing a ball, he runs to my garden and eats the cow manure??? Hang in there, I'm sure it will get better, just be patient. |
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