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08-20-2004, 07:22 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Florida
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| Paper train or outdoors?Which is Easier? I've had my Yorkie for over a month and I first started housebreaking him to go outside.Well he had many pee accidents in the house . I had him confined to our family room. He was very good to do poo outside. He would scratch at the sliding glass doors and that was his sign that he needed to go. This went on for 3 straight weeks full of pee accidents in the house. Well that was summer vacation time and I had to go back to work and bring him with me. I would take him outside my store but he would not go ,he kept sniffing and I guess since he never peed or pooped there he would not go. Of course as soon as I brought him in the store he would pee and poop on the rug. Finally I decided to paper train. I bought those Hospital Bed pee pads at Walmart for $5 for a 18 in the pk. I put some of his pee on it and put it in a corner. Well as soon as he got the urge to pee he went straight to the pee pad on the floor and he peed right on it! I was happy and gave him a treat and kisses. Then he did poop on the pad as well. I placed the pad at home next to the sliding doors and he peed and pooped there as well! It took me about 1-2 weeks to get him 99% paper trained. He's had very few accidents since then. I think training him for 3 weeks at home andthen Istarted to train him at work might have confused him. But why or how did he get paper trained so fast!!! Sorry for the long thread again! Genie |
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08-20-2004, 08:18 AM | #2 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
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| He's one smart cookie! :P Good to hear the pads worked so fast! I would think it's easier to train them to pee outside since it may feel more natural for them, at least peeing during walks, etc. But the scent of his pee on the pad got him to associate peeing in that area, so I think that's why he got it right so fast! Congrats! |
08-20-2004, 09:25 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alabama, etc.
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| Yayyyyyyyyy, Genie!! Congratulations! That is one smart little "Cookie"! I am so glad he learned so quickly. We are so glad that we trained Toto to the pad ... it's so much more convenient for us and she associates pee pee & pooping with the pad and not her location. She even uses her pad on long trips in the car! Good job, Mom!!! P.S. Toto is over a year and still occasionally has a little accident. We have noticed that it happens usually if she is upset! Go figure ... we don't scold or get upset, just take it in stride. 99% success ON the pad is fine for us!!
__________________ Toto's Mom - http://www.dogster.com/?206581 Yorkie Rescue Colorado - http://www.yorkierescuecolorado.com/ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits." -- Albert Einstein |
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