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Originally Posted by Keightley Rupp  
I am new to yorkie talk as I have just gotten a yorkie pup about a month ago. He is 17 weeks old right now and absolutely will not start to housebreak. I love him to death but am at a crossroads with what to do next.
The problem: He doesn't care to pee and poo in his crate at all. He pees outside everyonce in a while but still goes on the floor, bed etc. WILL NOT poo outside unless he is carried out of the house mid poo action.
When we got him the breeder said he was paper trained so we tried pee pads for about 4 days hoping we could move them outside eventually. He just played with the pee pads/newspaper. Sometimes peeing on them and poo on the floor or pee on the floor poo on the pad. Or he would just miss completely. We nixed that idea and decided to go strictly to crate training and outside. BUT he goes in his crate without a care.
I have tried making his crate smaller, he only has room to lie down. I have left him comfy towels and toys to be with him in the crate but he covered up his defecation witht the towel. So I have been trying nothing in the crate at all and all he does is waller in filth. I take him outside to the same spot each time treat him when he pees outside and make big deal out of it. I have taken some of his feces outside to his pee spot in hopes it would spark something and NOTHING! Two or three times we have spent an entire day outside thinking he would have to go at some point and he'll hold it untill 11:00 pm when we come inside and do it on the floor when I turn for two seconds. We clean up all messes with a pet enzyme cleaner. He is on a pretty regular schedule. I know he can hold his bladder and bowl movements because he does so when he wants to...but at night he goes in his crate. Help I don't know what to do! Every book I read says they won't go in their crate but this guy is impossible. I'm sick of starting my morning with a dog bathing session and poo clean up. It's a good thing he's cute as pie!  |
they say with puppies you need to take them out every 2 hours and give them a small treat everytime they pee and poop outside and praise him. They also make a spray for the pee pads that is suppose to help train them to use it.. they sell it at pet smart. But so you know Yorkies are on the top 5 hardest breeds to housebreak. Mine STILL has some issues but not major ones.. he has more of a bladdar issue where he pees when he gets excited,