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01-17-2016, 10:01 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: los gatos
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| Potty pad training poll for fun! I wanted to take a fun poll on Yorkie pups to see what average time it takes for your babies to pick up pottying on the pad. Pleaase post age of pup you started training and how long it took. I'll go first- Minnie was 14 weeks when we brought her home and it took us about 10 days for her to go to pee pad on her own 100% to pee/poop. |
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01-17-2016, 10:04 AM | #2 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: Ohio
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| It took me months! We tried putting a pee pad by the door he goes potty out of and he would go outside cry and walk around come in and hide behind the couch! Finally I had to take him to my grandma who's good with training and she got him under control maybe 4 months to about 6 months with no pee pads! Yea he was never a fan of them that I had as an emergency
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01-17-2016, 10:41 AM | #3 |
Love My Girls Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Decatur, IL
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| Macy was 12 weeks old when we brought her home....it took her a full year to be 100% trained on a potty pad. I thought she would never catch onto the potty pad thing. Molly was 6 months when she joined our family...she had one accident the day we brought her home and she has been potty trained ever since. They both won't go on a plain potty pad so I use a potty patch with a potty pad underneath. They also both use the potty pad within minutes of each other most of the time.
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01-17-2016, 11:47 AM | #4 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Sagamore hills
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| I brought Bella home at 14 weeks. She was super hard to train. We are still learning as well. I really don't remember how long it took. She now will pee on the pad but won't poop on it if it already has pee on it. She is finally catching on about going outside to pee. I take her out about every 2 hours. I just started picking up her food and water at night, on a suggestion from others. She has not peed on the pad overnight for 2 nights now. YAY! I take her out as soon as I get up. |
01-17-2016, 12:10 PM | #5 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| My puppies are all pee pad trained when they go out to new homes at 14 weeks old. When they get to new homes, it takes a day or two for them to get used to new surroundings, but as soon as they get used to "the lay of the land", they go right back to their pee pads! |
01-17-2016, 02:00 PM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: pensacola
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| We got Lola at 8 weeks it took about 2 months for 100% then we moved to a new home she went in the guest bathroom from day one we keep pads down all the time for her incase we can't take her out it works perfectly she will get up at night and go potty and come get right back in bed with us when we walk her she goes outside but when we can't she has her bathroom |
01-17-2016, 03:10 PM | #7 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: los gatos
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| At first we placed the potty pad near door on the outside yard, but with the cold weather- she was extremely reluctant to go. |
01-17-2016, 03:14 PM | #8 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: los gatos
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| Sounds like everyone had very different experiences with potty training. Is potty pad a temperary solution until dog learns to do their thing outside for everyone? We plan on keeping our Minnie peeing/pooping on pad just bc we are both working parents, cold winters and no doggie door. |
01-17-2016, 03:48 PM | #9 | |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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AND ABSOLUTELY NO DOGGIE DOOR! NO unsupervised romps around the back yard....like bad kids, these buggers LOOK for trouble to get into! I swear a squirrel had picked a tangerine off my tree, and was eating it, sitting on the fence....3 dogs were underneath where the squirrel was sitting 12 feet up high on the new wooden fence....that squirrel actually threw peelings at the dogs and they went nuts!!) Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 01-17-2016 at 03:51 PM. | |
01-17-2016, 03:59 PM | #10 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: los gatos
Posts: 26
| Yorkiemom1, your post made me giggle. Why do dogs eat their poop? I'm afraid of Minnie doing this bc I do see her sniff her poop so we always pick up her poop and flush immediately. |
01-18-2016, 10:10 AM | #11 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Crown Point, IN
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| We got our puppy 5 days ago at 8 weeks so we are still working on pad training. So far she is doing great! She hasn't pooped anywhere other than on the pad in the last few days and she pees on the pad about 80% of the time. She hasn't made her way out of the living room yet and we have no rugs in there so that makes it easier. If we walk to the kitchen she will just follow us to the end of the living room and stop and wait for us to come back. I'm sure she'll want to explore eventually but we're certainly not giving her any ideas! We use an x-pen and have her puppy pad on a holder inside of that.
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01-18-2016, 04:06 PM | #12 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: london on canada
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| About a week for 90% trained then maybe the odd accident for six months we used the fake grass and never moved the pee pad it was near her crate with a pen around that she could come and go when we were home |
01-18-2016, 04:38 PM | #13 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2014 Location: prescott valley az usa
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| Total loser........ got Buddybear at 14 weeks and he goes outside....just shredded every pee pad I put down, as his daddy did so puppies were trained to go outside with parents. . . Wish he would go on them when we have snow and rain, but he doesn't.
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01-18-2016, 04:58 PM | #14 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: New Yok, NY
Posts: 723
| Boomer and Thumper took right to it. It took about a week. We rarely have an accident now. I just wish I could move the pad away from the sink/stove area as it can get in the way. But no matter how hard I try they keep going back to that area pad or no pad. |
01-18-2016, 05:35 PM | #15 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Canada
Posts: 212
| I got Théo and Maezie when they were 11 and 12 weeks old. I didn't bother with potty pad training cause I didn't want them to think its ok to pee and poop inside. Instead I taught them to ring the bell on my back door to let me know they need to go potty and want outside. It took about 6 weeks for them to ring it 100% of the time. Although Maezie, even though she knows how to ring it, won't ring it. Apparently I've heard that's quite normal. Multiple dogs in a household will nominate one of them to be the bell ringer. So Maezie just waits at the door for Théo to ring the bell. I worked really hard training them and I think I could've had the housetraining part done sooner but I was teaching them loads of things all at once plus they each had to have their own separate training sessions. So it just took a little bit longer. But I love training dogs. It's a great way to really get to know them and bond with them. |
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