[rebecca127]

Hey everyone on YT!!! I found your site after my bf gave me my very first dog and thank god it was Yorkie!! I have been on your site every day since then, this place is the best!!

Anyway, my dilemma is that when I first got Abby I gated her in my room with enough space to play, eat and sleep. I live in APT so that was the only place she was allowed to be at first and get aclimated. (By the way she will be 4 months October 26.) She was doing very well on peeing and pooping on the wee wee pad and I would praise her A LOT when she would go on the pad. After a month, I notice that she was going great on the pad, so I let her have the whole room. Things were going great until a few days ago, I noticed that she would poop once a day on the pad and i found it odd because she was normally doing 2-3 times perday.( I feed her Wellness.) So, i was like maybe she is having an off day. Until yesterday when I saw she hadnt pooped for 2 days! I was alarmed but at the same time I was not because she was not in pain and was eating and playing normally. So as i bend down to pick something on the floor near under my bed, i smell poop. I decided to move my bed and lo and behold, I found many little treaures... I was not a happy camper.

So my question is this, do i contain her once again in the gate and restart the house breaking process? I cannot use the crate method because she is alone for at least 6 hours in the whole day and I think that is too long to keep her in the crate.

Please help!!

Abby's Mom