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08-08-2007, 08:39 PM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bay area, CA
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| Potty pad training question... Hey everyone, I have never owned a Yorkie before, so there is a few things I am trying to learn before we bring our new puppy home. "Davey" will be coming to live with us in about 4 weeks. So, I have been doing lots of research on how to potty train him using the potty pads. I have two question I was hoping you guys could help me with. #1- How many potty pad areas should we have in our house. We have a good size house with 2 stories. I was thinking I should have one potty pad downstairs and one upstairs. Would it be confusing for him to have 2 different potty areas? #2- How often do you change the potty pad? Everytime they go potty? |
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08-08-2007, 08:51 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois
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| Because we start out with the puppy (btw, I love the name!!) in one area, we start with one. Then we start gradually giving more freedom with supervision - and with that freedom, just as you start with trying to teach them in the beginning, we "walk" them back to their potty pad every 30 minutes or so. It helps because they already know what "potty" is before they every get more than a room away. We have a tri-level house and one potty pad in the finished basement. Coby, the puppy (5 months old) is still limited to the kitchen when unattended and a potty paper in there. He's getting more freedom with frequent walks back to his pad. Eventually, he'll have one in the basement too. Yeah!! When puppies, I don't change it every time, because it helps them know that's what it's for. Later, depending on the puddle size, I change it every time or every couple/few times. Coby's are so tiny now, that I can wait a little longer. Good Luck and way to be prepared!!
__________________ Diane, and my boys ..... Coby and Reggie !! Striving to be a YTPP - a YT Positive Poster! In Memory of My Beautiful Mother 7/22/28-8/27/08 |
08-08-2007, 09:11 PM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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| I have Eros' potty pad in a little litter box (without the litter box he would sometimes confuse rugs for his potty pads) in the laundry room. I leave the laundry room door open so that it forms a very large room with the kitchen and I put doggy gates in the kitchen to close it off because we have an open floor plan. He is doing VERY well with potty training and rarely has accidents at just 3 months of age. At night he sleeps in his exercise pen and will cry when he has to potty. So I take him out to his litter box in the laundry room and tell him to go potty then take him back to bed in his pen. Originally I had two pads out...one in the laundry room and one in the bathroom close the room his play pen is in. At some point he just stopped wanting to use the 2nd pad and would wait behind the closed bathroom door to let me know he wanted to go potty in the laundry room only I generally let him pee on his pad twice depending on the size of the puddle and the smell. If he poops I change it right away. Actually, if he thinks his pad is too soiled he will bark at me to change it...and if I don't do it he will grab his pad by the corner and pull it out of his litter box Desiree & Eros |
08-08-2007, 09:18 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois
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| Sounds like you're well on your way. Coby is like that too if he feels his pad isn't clean enough. There have been a few times when we've been changing it and gotten distracted and forgot to put a new one down. He looks at us like we're loony. One time, he couldn't hold it and had to go right there. He still looked at us like we were loony. Coby is 5 months old and does really well. But my philosophy in housebreaking is to try to have only successes. So he's getting his freedom very gradually. When we're ready to give him the run of the house, I'm going to actually gate a "potty area" off for them downstairs. Because Yorkies seem to have trouble just going over and squatting, they have to pace, turn, pace, circle, and sometimes don't end up facing the right way and get their butt over the edge or are still moving when they're going! If I gate it, they will have to always end up in the right spot. I still just love the name "Davey" !!
__________________ Diane, and my boys ..... Coby and Reggie !! Striving to be a YTPP - a YT Positive Poster! In Memory of My Beautiful Mother 7/22/28-8/27/08 |
08-08-2007, 09:29 PM | #5 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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08-08-2007, 09:32 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois
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| What kind of dog is your other little guy? He's a cutie too!
__________________ Diane, and my boys ..... Coby and Reggie !! Striving to be a YTPP - a YT Positive Poster! In Memory of My Beautiful Mother 7/22/28-8/27/08 |
08-08-2007, 09:54 PM | #7 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Bay area, CA
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| Thank you guy for the great advice!! Do you think I should buy one of those training pad holders or some kind of litter box? |
08-08-2007, 10:05 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois
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| We just use them on the floor, but I've been intriguted by the holders and the litter box idea. I'd like to hear more on those too!
__________________ Diane, and my boys ..... Coby and Reggie !! Striving to be a YTPP - a YT Positive Poster! In Memory of My Beautiful Mother 7/22/28-8/27/08 |
08-08-2007, 10:05 PM | #9 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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08-08-2007, 10:05 PM | #10 |
Everyday's A HollyDay! Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: TX/WI
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| Hi, these guys are right. You can't give them free range of the house right away. Start off slow. I used to change the pads too often and Holly would always sniff around trying to smell where she'd done it before. Well I had already taken that out. I bought a training aid spray that is supposed to smell like pee (their momma's pee supposedly) and that really helped me. You spray it on the pad and have them smell it. Also associate one word for relieving himself and stick with it. Holly can now pee on command if I need her to do it before we go somewhere. These are tricky little guys too. Right when you think they are completely trained, they start doing it all over the place. I think they need to constantly be reminded of where to go. Also don't forget to treat them and/or really celebrate when he goes on his pad. I would practically throw a party at the beginning every time she'd go. There's excellent advice on here. If you do a search I'm sure you'll find just what you need to know. Good Luck and I can't wait to hear how it goes.
__________________ Holly s Lucky and BFF Queequeg too "Every day is a Holly-Day" |
08-09-2007, 11:43 AM | #11 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker | My yorkie Skippy tells us when he needs to go outside, he's 3 years old now. What should I do with the new puppy (little girl) when we get her? She will be so little and it will be cold outside-I'm inclined to try to pee pad train her and then in the warmer weather, to move it closer to the door. My husband says, skippy goes outside, just train her to go out. I suppose I'm thinking too much? Anyone have a suggestion? I also wonder if skippy would tear the pad up. |
08-09-2007, 05:17 PM | #12 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Beaumont, Tx
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| I really like the idea of the litter box....I'm thinking maybe you could trim a spot in the side for them to get into it easier??? I think I am going to try that with our new little one when we get her. I am sure it will save our floor too.
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08-09-2007, 07:53 PM | #13 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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08-09-2007, 08:03 PM | #14 | |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois
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__________________ Diane, and my boys ..... Coby and Reggie !! Striving to be a YTPP - a YT Positive Poster! In Memory of My Beautiful Mother 7/22/28-8/27/08 | |
08-09-2007, 08:04 PM | #15 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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| Here's the doggy litter box I use for Eros http://www.petsmart.com/global/produ...litter+box&N=2. I use the slightly taller one that is shown empty and just put a pee pee pad in it. The one with the shorter walls probably wouldn't work well for my boy as he likes to pace around and then poop close to the wall, so the higher one keeps him from accidentally pooping outside of his litter box even though he is in it. Good luck! Desiree & Eros |
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