Pee Pee HELP.

[shotgun]

We had are Yorkie for 8 years now.He is peeing around the house. My wife and I are self employed so we can stop by the house to let him out during the day. He goes out be for we go to bed at 10:30. I get up at 3am to let him out at night and get up for the day 5:30- 6:00. I take his water up at night he thinks he runs the house this little dog is part of me.

Help Please.

[Teresiana]

Have you thought about setting him up in an expen or a room with a tiled floor while you are out of the house?

[kjc]

Before assuming this is a behavioral problem, I'd run him to the vet to check for a UTI as this can cause inappropriate urination.

[jeane]

i agree/ a vet check sounds good

[yipyap]

My brother and his wife finally gave up on housebreaking their 1st dog, and they gave their young, year-old Yorkie away to an elderly, retired couple back in the 1980's! It was because the young dog kept making messes..actually hiding the messes...all over their apartment. They were both young and they both were working, so they tried to get their pup to go potty before they left and when they came home. They left out newspapers in their kitchen...but he didn't always use them again after the first time. The little Yorkie pup got confused whenever his owners got upset; he thought he was getting scolded and dragged back to have «to see his messes» because His Humans did Not Want Him TO Pee & Poop...At All!! So, for a while, my brother thought the pee & poo «fussing at him» was working, since the puddles & poo seemed to stop on kitchen floor, hallway, & by the doors. But, that was not what was Really happening at all! The little Yorkie was still making messes in their large kitchenette. However, he had begun to HIDE where he was sometimes going to the potty, so they wouldn't get angry at him! The SMELL led my brother and his wife to the young yorkie's new potty spots....way back underneath the kitchen furniture and squeezed behind the wooden cupboards, where the messes wouldn't be seen! They were getting all upset, and the poor pup sure wasn't happy! He had to go potty and couldn't find the right places while they were at work! (They Really should have Waited to get a puppy!!) So, they finally gave away their young Yorkie to an Older Couple down the street who were retired and were at home to take him outside all day. They did positive treats and got him a penned-in area which had newspapers on one side if he had to stay alone. If people are smart, there should be rooms which are «off-limits» for a little dog in a house!! I keep Taffy OUT of our dining room and OUT of the company living room ... we just don't use them enough! So, if Taffy ever gets into those rooms, he always wants to «mark» these seldom-used rooms by peeing on the carpet. He doesn't recognize enough of our smells that mark these rooms as «belonging» to us! During the day, he is in the kitchen, the den, or follows me a couple times down to basement laundry or upstairs. He always races upstairs to sleep on my bed when I go to sleep. He trots to our back door during the day and circles around on the door mat to tell me he needs to go out to pee & poo...He Always gets a Treat if he goes Right away, too! (This had helped me when I used to work; he had to pee & poo right away so I could get him into my bedroom to leave him during my work days. He had a newspaper pee-tray in my room which he used as a puppy.) Our long strolling walks were always done in the late afternoons. Taffy always wants to stay with us in the rooms we really Live In, so he does Not want to mess in our «real living spaces» and «sleeping spaces»! He is really an outdoor trained dog! We do have a large circle pen I can set up with his bed crate, dishes, and pee/poo tray all in the large basement if we go away for 1-3 days...our sister comes over each day to walk him and change papers and feed him for us. He has gone on a few trips, but I don't like putting him in his crate in srange hotel rooms if he must stay behind while we go eat or visit museums! He seems much happier at our own house...he considers it to be His Territory!! Ha! Let your dog know what his rooms are, he won't want to mess in them...And Take him outside frequently when he's little!!