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12-28-2006, 05:02 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles
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| Trained outside, can I train her using the pee pad and how ? I have several questions. I am thinking to train my 6 month old chelsea using pee pad while we are not home. She is doing really good without mistake inside the house in the past 3 weeks. She is potty trained outside in the concrete areas. During 2 days in the week both of us are working and I am thinking to confine her in the bathroom. Currently, I come home from work and to let her out. Here are my questions. 1. Can I confine her in the bathroom and how to train her in the pee pad. I am afraid she regress and start peeing all over the house. I have been trying to pee pad trained her outside but she just sit in the pad. I've waited more than 20 minutes without any result, as soon as I let her go she finds her usual spot outside and she pees or potty. It is so frustrating or should I just wait until she really gets it and potty trained her in the pee pad later. 2. How long can housebroken adult yorkies stay inside the house without making mistakes. Can I leave her in the bathroom or small areas for more than 7 hours ? 3. Are all pee pads the same ? Which one is the best and will atract her the most to pee ? I bought four paws spray to atract her without any good result. 4. Any solutions for my situation will be appreciated. She is good in crates but hate playplen. She keeps jumping but will just sleep in the crate. Thanks. |
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12-28-2006, 05:20 PM | #2 |
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| Loki is a fully house trained adult - 2 years old. I still put him in the crate when we are not home because he also sleeps and is most comfortable. He *can* be left for up to 8 hours in an emergency and he handles 6 quite well on the occasional weekend when we run errands all day long. Otherwise, on a daily basis, I keep crating down to less than 4 hours. I take him to doggie daycare at least once a week and my husband says the other days he typically sleeps the entire time I am at work, waking only once to go outside. As someone who worked very hard to have a fully housetrained Yorkie (it is possible!) I would never suggest switching to pads. I would choose a dog walker or daycare over pads. So, that is my suggestion. Could a retired neighbor or someone who works from home possibly let your dog out? I get home quite a bit earlier than many of my neighbors and I am always happy to help let their dogs out if needed. It takes 5 minutes to give their pups a potty break and 10 more to cuddle and play with them! Maybe find someone who is a teacher or someone who works close to home that gets home early? Who wouldn't take $10-20 a week to play with a Yorkie??
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12-28-2006, 05:24 PM | #3 |
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| One other thing - if you really do want her to go on the pad - just teach her to go on command. Follow her outside (a leash helps) and say "go potty!" as soon as she pees. Once she gets it outside, put her on the pad and give her a command. I have used this when I have to put Loki on mulch or dirt or something not really resembling grass and he gives me this look like "mom, I don't want to pee here!" And he will go if I tell him to. I don't know if it would work inside though. He might pee inside but he absolutely refuses to poop inside. When he has to poop he will run around me in circles, bark at the door, swat at his bells or whatever it takes until I let him out
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12-28-2006, 08:36 PM | #4 |
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| Thanks Erin, like always your suggestion is always helpful. When you are not at home do you let Loki roam the entire house, confine him in certain area or in the crate ? At what age did you start to trust him to roam by himself ? Also did the command work to let him potty at the same site at all time. I let chelsea out she usually potty in two places but pee in the concrete areas with no specific area. I wish she can do it in the same area at all time. I will try to use the lease. Once again thanks. |
12-29-2006, 09:58 AM | #5 |
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| I crate Loki if he is alone for more than 15-20 minutes. He likes his crate and just sleeps anyway. I always worry he will find something dangerous and choke or whatever. The crate is safe. Otherwise he is free to run around and sleep wherever he wants. He had complete freedom at about 10 months. We had some bladder issues so it took us a while to figure all of that out. We put up bells when he was about a year and have had no accidents since. I used to have to follow him downstairs because i did not know if he was going to the door or just going to get a toy. Once the bells were up i did not have to worry about what he was doing and i no longer came down to a puddle by the door. The key was giving him a way to let us know he needed to go out. He had maybe one oops puddle by the door (like we didnt let him out in time) a month until he was like 18 months. No accidents since then (and he's 2). He just had to grow into his tiny bladder and the meds also help. We never used gates because of the floor plan of our house. It is very open and not big so he can't get too far away. We just always kept an eye on him when he was not crated. As soon as he was fully crate trained (maybe by 6 months?) he got a BIG crate. Also, we have a townhouse so he goes outside on a leash. That helped big time with training and with his commands. He goes in about the same 6x10 area as that is as far as the flexi goes, but never in the same place twice. He walks sometimes while peeing and waddles while pooping so he starts in one spot and moves to another. Picking up the yard is loads of fun
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12-29-2006, 10:43 AM | #6 |
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| We have a 1yr old that is fully housebroken and runs freely all day while I'm at work, but we have recently gotten a new baby who is 4 months old. I keep a potty pad by the back door. If she asks to be let out and we don't see her then she will potty on the pad. She also is good about peeing on command. We have a separate fenced in area only for her so she knows the purpose of being put in it and we tell her to go potty. As soon as she does her business we praise, praise & she gets a treat. If we let her out with Reesie she gets to busy playing and it takes for ever. |
12-29-2006, 10:43 AM | #7 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles
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| Once again thank you for all your replies. I think we have similar situation. I am also thinking to teach Chelsea potty with command but I have not sucessfully did it. She is pretty much only want to potty in 2 places in the patio area but this creates problem when she is out of the house (in my in law house). She will hold it up to the max. How do you train her with bell ? Which kind of bell do you use and where did you buy it ? I try using the bell but she afraid of the noise. |
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