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Originally Posted by mistyinca  I can spot a few things going wrong just from your post alone...
First, If your house is "smelling like s**t" that is a big problem right there. You need to erase the poop and pee when it happens, or it is a marker telling your dog that that is the place to potty. Get yourself some neutralizer. Petsmart sells one called "Nature's miracle". Follow the directions and immediately clean up the mistake.
Second, if you take her outside, are you standing with her and watching to see if she goes? If no, put her on a leash. STand out there and say "go pee pee" and you wait until it happens. If yes, then make her do it a second time.
Third, you say she comes right in and pees right in front of you. If the second thing I pointed out doesn't take care of it. You startle her while she's peeing. Your purpose is NOT--I repeat--NOT to stop that instance of peeing from hitting your floor (too late for that at that moment) but it is to tell her that what she is doing right there is WRONG. So clap at her or rattle a can or shout "NO!" when she pees right in front of you; IMMEDIATELY take her outside, put her on the grass (on the leash) and tell her go pee pee. Don't let her come back in until she does it. Then praise. At this point, if she pees outside, forget the bad that happened in the house. Praise praise praise that she peed outside--even if some pee happened in the house. And clean up and neutralize the pee that happened.
Fourth. Never let her be out of your sight. Put her in the crate when you can't be watching her--with CLEAN bedding all the time. Don't let her get comfortable if peeing in her crate is a problem. Keep it clean so she begins to prefer it clean. Dogs by nature do not like to sleep or eat where the potty.
Finally, start scheduling potty breaks. If every two hours isn't keeping potty off the floor, go every hour. It will get better eventually, but you have to be consistent, and you have to be on it. |
These are all excellent suggestions. Be very consistent in using them for housebreaking. Yorkies are VERY difficult to housebreak and since she's only 6 months old, I think your expectations are a bit high at this point. Keep doing the above suggestions and be consistent with it and she'll catch on eventually. All yorkies are different and they can be housebroken at different times but the key is consistency.
I trained Max to go outside. He is 3 years old and he still has accidents in the house. I trained Abbie using pee pads first. She caught on really quickly. Then eventually she started going outside. She is completely housebroken but she wasn't consistent until she was about 9 months old (she's 2 years old right now.)