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03-09-2015, 05:43 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Toronto
Posts: 27
| Potty training setback Hi everyone, My little guy is 6 months old, and at 5 months was completely potty trained. I worked so hard at it and felt so accomplished for both of us! We had to use pee pads because it was WAY too cold outside for him, even with boots and a jacket. Anyway, we moved a couple weeks ago and it seems he is back at square one. It is almost seems harder than when we first got him, because at that time he followed us around everywhere, so when he'd wander off we knew he had to go pee and take him to his pee pad. In this house, for some reason, he never follows us and is always off doing his own thing. Do I really have to follow him around everywhere, or else keep him in his crate? I guess so......maybe I'm just looking for a magic answer. I've been very on top of it the last few days and doing just that, but then I think he has the hang of it and stop watching like a hawk and BAM! he pees on the floor. I don't know. Any magic answers or just keep at it? I feel bad keeping him in his small gated room (with crate, pee pad, toys, water) by himself so much, but I can't be watching him all the time. Thanks |
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03-10-2015, 12:50 PM | #3 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bay Area, California
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| Doglover4, sounds like you just need to do a little backtracking. New house = new rules and new boundries. Giving pups the run of the house= giving them permission to make their own rules. My dogs learn that no potty in certain areas means they've earned that space. What do you think about your pup following you around the house instead of the other way around? Tethering my dogs was the method I used for potty training. I can catch them in the act, learn their signal when they need to potty and teach/show them where to do their business. When my dogs were young and already trained at home you would think they know just to target the piddle pad in someone else's home but they don't. I tethered them when going into a different house for the first few times like visiting family and friends and I don't give them free roam until they understand where they're suppose to potty.
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