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08-24-2009, 02:22 PM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | I'm confused! Is what I'm doing ok? HI everyone, I need some help or incite on this. When I first got Bella, I would put her in a crate a night time to sleep. Well as many times as I would set my alarm to wake up to take her to pee on a pad, I couldn't seem to get to her on time, she would just pee and poo in her crate. ANd she would never cry so it's not like she would wake me up when she had to go. So I ended up putting the crate in the bathroom with the little door open so that she could walk out and go pee on her pad when she needed to. ( As a side note, I thought that dogs don't pee where they sleep?) Anyway, I didn't like the fact of closing the bathroom door so I just put a children's gate up. Instead of having to wash her bedding and blankets every day I now had to mop my bathroom floor every day because she would miss the pad. Come to think of it I don't know why I didn't line the whole bathroom up with pads? Well anyway, I thought maybe a night light would help her find her way to the pad. Nope! Ok, so this was going on from 8wks till she was 16wks old. Bella was scheduled to be spayed and have some hernia repair at 4months old. So to prepare a little bit 2 days prior to her surgery I had her sleep with me, because I wanted to be able to stop her from licking herself as much as I could, during the night. Well she did great in my bed, she did not get up once to try and go pee, normally in the bathroom I would see 2 different potty spots and #2. So anyway she held it all night, didn't have to clean up after her. The second night came and she did just as well. Needless to say she's been sleeping in my bed ever since. However, now that my husband has to be away and can only come home on the weekends, I do put her bed in the bathroom with a potty pad and the baby gate up. It's weird how she will not hold it if she is sleeping in the bathroom on her bed, but if she is in my bed sleeping on her little bed, she will. I hope everyone got that? So at least it's only on the weekends that I'm continuosly cleaning up after her, in the bathroom. Now, just to let you all know she has free roam of the house all day long and goes directly to her potty pad when she has to do any of her business. She has maybe 1 accident a month, which is really good. I would say she is 5months and 98% potty trained. So my question is why can't she hold it in the bathroom and why the mess? Any ideas? Oh one more thing why does she go pee and then run off the pad and then back to it at lick her pee? She only does one lick as if to verify that it is indeed pee. Strange? |
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08-24-2009, 08:14 PM | #3 |
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| Ok... Dogs just like humans are a fun little breed of animals. Dogs will lick the pee and/or even eat poop (I know gross). They do this cause when they were pups the Mamma dog cleaned up after them; they would lick up the pee and eat the poop. So when they see you clean up after them in front of them it's thier own funny little way of helping you out. They make stuff that is suppose to help stop them from doing this at your local pet stores. Now as for the bed thing.... out male yorkie has the same thing going on with him. This is what's going on in the mind of the yorkie.... if they do not pee or poop on your bed they are showing you respect if they do it's dis-respect. So if they respect you they will not use the restroom in your bed....they will hold it (a small breed can hold for about 3 hours and really no longer) so he might get out of bed (even if you do not know it and go somewhere to use the rest room and then right back in bed my you ). When he by himself he finds no need of trying to hold it cause well it's just him and so why should he.....I hope this helps! I have not idea way this thing wrote pink! I HATE PINK! Boy I hope my wife does not see this and laugh!........I think she seat it this way....she is in trouble.......
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08-24-2009, 08:24 PM | #4 | |
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08-24-2009, 08:24 PM | #5 | |
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Hmmm maybe she has too much room... When peanut was a pup I had him in a crate at night it was a bigger one enough for a pad on one side and a bed on the other..he didnt have any food down at night but I had like a hamster water bottle on the cage if he gets thirsty...He learned that he had to go pee and poo on his pads really fast...I hear its better to give them just enough room to get up and turn around...You know dont put them somewhere too small, but not big enough! I only did this when I was training him...once he got the idea I would let him sleep with me and whenever I would feel him walk around I would place him on his pad..He did have a couple oppsies on the bed..but it happens. My fault!! Then when I wasn't home I didnt want to leave him in the crate so I got a playpen and made it small enough, but he still had room to play with toys and have his food,water and pee pad in there...It worked well.. I hear that when you train them to go on the pee pad they will always think like a bathroom rug or kitchen rug is a pad?? Thats what some lady told me...and you know Peanut is 2 he is pretty much 98% trained and he will still sneak over in the bathrooms and pee on the rugs!!! So I always keep the doors shut. As far as the licking her pee..I have no idea what to tell you about that one Maybe if you see her doing it just tell her No...and when you tell her no and she ignores it to give her a treat??? I hope this helped a little
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08-24-2009, 08:27 PM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | LOL! Thanks for the advice. I usually don't change the pad until she has pottied on it 3 times. So sometimes I notice, when there is already a previous pottied area, that she rubs her nose on the spot as if she was sweeping it away or pushing it away. Do you think she is trying to clean up her pad? Sometimes she just goes at it and tries really hard. I thought she was trying to smooth out the pad or something, that's what it looks like. |
08-24-2009, 08:30 PM | #8 | |
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08-24-2009, 08:31 PM | #9 |
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| I think that she just sleeps more soundly with you, so she doesn't wake up to go pee. She probably misses you when she's in the bathroom and wakes up to see where you are. Missy sleeps through the night when she's in bed with me too, and she has since she was 8 weeks old.
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08-24-2009, 08:31 PM | #10 |
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08-24-2009, 08:31 PM | #11 |
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| Don`t panic that is normal When she will lick her pie just say her name loud or even tray to show her that`s bad. Maybe she will stop doing stuff like this,when my Lucky is doing something nasty I say very loud his name Maybe it will help for me it worked.
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08-24-2009, 08:37 PM | #12 | |
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08-24-2009, 08:39 PM | #13 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | Part kitty cat? LOL! I think you might just be right. |
08-24-2009, 08:43 PM | #14 |
Senior Yorkie Talker | That sounds like a good idea. I usually do that when she is getting into something. So she, for sure, will know that it's a " no no", Thanks again. |
08-24-2009, 08:46 PM | #15 | |
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