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03-29-2007, 05:03 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alberta
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| Shift worker trying to potty train! I just got my teacup Yorkie (Spike) two weeks ago - he's already five months old and I am trying to potty train him. He's making progress - I keep him in the bathroom when I'm not home or at work, and take him outside as soon as I get home at at various points throughout the day. My goal is to train him to go outside, but also to use pee pads when I'm not home. I would like him to eventually be able to have the run of the house when I'm not there, rather than being confined to the bathroom! My two main problems are 1) He's already five months old and as far as I can tell he hasn't been housebroken yet and 2) I work shifts, so maintaining a consistent timetable is impossible. I know patience is the key - but can anyone give me any suggestions as to how I can achieve my goal!?!?! |
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03-29-2007, 06:48 PM | #2 |
Everyday's A HollyDay! Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: TX/WI
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| Ditto Girl, I am in the same boat. I got my puppy 5 days ago and trying everything I know and read about. I just got that Simple Solution Potty Training Aid. It's a spray that's supposed to help train them to go in a specific place. I tried it as soon as I got it and she did it on a pee pad. She hasn't peed since then but I hope it works. I've heard some people say that it only works for pee. Personally, I am more concerned about the pee. That's the smell that lingers and harder to get rid off. That's my opinion anyways. Let me know how it goes.
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03-30-2007, 09:20 AM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ohio
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| I think if you want him to go on both the pee pad and go out side, you need to work on one at a time. Once he gets the first one mastered, then you can move on the the next. Since you are a shift worker, I think I would work on the pee pad first. This may be difficult, now that the weather is getting warmer, but do not let him out until he uses his pee pad. Then he gets to go out. Put a dab of his pee on the pee pad and this will help him understand where he needs to go. Hope this helps! |
03-30-2007, 09:37 AM | #4 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Fayetteville, AR
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| I'm in the same situation trying to housebreak my puppy. I wake up, take her out, feed her, take her out... then she goes in her area until I get home. Lucky for me I have a porch off my bedroom, so I'm trying to train her to go pee our poop out there while I'm gone and then I can just sweep/wash it off (it's concrete). For now I just leave the door open a crack and she goes out on her own, but when it gets too hot to leave the door open I was going to try keeping the door shut but putting a puppy pad down right by the door. That way she still knows to go to the door when she has to go. So maybe try putting the puppy pad next to the door?
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03-30-2007, 11:25 AM | #5 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Kirkland WA
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| If you can confine them to a small area of the house close to where they sleep and eat, it is more likely they won't soil there and will wait until they are taken to the area where they are supposed to go. If you are gone 8 hours tho, you may have to rig up a room, say the kitchen, for them to eat on one end and put the potty pad as far away from the food as you can get it, so they can use the potty pad. The potty pads are prescented so that they are attracted to go there anyway. We also learned that they like to go when the pad is clean, not when it is full of their waste, so it's best to keep a clean pad in there. We change ours daily and it works much better that way. And apparently, in our case at least, our puppy does not like to go poo where she has peed. So we change the pad more often for that reason as well. We usually change it just before she is due to go poo and she seems to have no problem going there in that case, whereas, she resists going there if the pad is saturated with pee. You want to make sure you try to get her to go on the pad or outside right after a nap, or in the a.m. after waking up, and after play or exercise or eating. The best thing to do is to feed them their "formal" meals on schedule. So we do this by feeding soft food at scheduled times during the day. Our puppy also nibbles on kibble throughout the day (you should always keep kibbles around whether you feed on schedule or not), but she usually only goes poo after eating her soft food meal. Her poo schedule seems to be twice a day. Once in the morning when she wakes up, and then in the evening, so twice a day. The key is keeping them confined and feeding them "formal" meals on schedule. And when you are home, you may want to do what we do, we keep our puppy leashed to us with her extending leash so that she has no opportunity to sneak off and do her business. |
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