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bilbao · 09-09-2008, 06:28 AM

I am new to this site but have used it for reference many times so I decided to just join. I have two dogs one is a yorkie/ toy poodle and her name is Trixi and I have a yorkie that is named tug. when we first got trixi she hadn't been house trained at all not even a little start. we were constantly picking up poop and cleaning up pee. we got so frustrated with it after two months of it we actually put her up for sale. my wife just couldnt take it any more. we have some people across the street from us that has a s**t-zu and they kept telling us "just be patient she will get it. it takes until they are about six months old for them to really register what they need to be doing." and i tell you what no kidding it was like 6 months on the dot she never went inside again. now with my little yorkie... Tug oh little Tug. he is driving me nuts with that he is just now about six months old and is still pooping in the house. he was peeing in the house until we got some belly bands for him (great idea) he wears that all day while he is in the house and we take it off him as he runs out the door to go out. I thought we had finally won the battle a couple of weeks ago i was on the couch and i heard him give a little bark (which neither of them ever do) so i looked and he was sitting by the back door. i asked myself is it so?... sure enough he went out and did his thing and came back in. i was so happy i was doing jumping jacks. then the next thing i knew was our 2 year old boy came walking in the room saying "poop poop poop" holding a poop from tug. i was so upset with that little bugger. he was on the right track and then just threw it all away. now its not like he doesnt know that going inside is a bad thing. every time he does you know it because he is nowhere to be found and then when you do find him he just runs away and hides again like he is ashamed. we let them out every couple hours to go so i dont know what his problem is. i do the positive reinforcement when he goes outside. but it just seems like sometimes it sticks and other times it doesnt. its getting quite frustrating any ideas help

thanks

09-09-2008, 06:28 AM	#10
bilbao Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: utah Posts: 72	same old stuff I am new to this site but have used it for reference many times so I decided to just join. I have two dogs one is a yorkie/ toy poodle and her name is Trixi and I have a yorkie that is named tug. when we first got trixi she hadn't been house trained at all not even a little start. we were constantly picking up poop and cleaning up pee. we got so frustrated with it after two months of it we actually put her up for sale. my wife just couldnt take it any more. we have some people across the street from us that has a s**t-zu and they kept telling us "just be patient she will get it. it takes until they are about six months old for them to really register what they need to be doing." and i tell you what no kidding it was like 6 months on the dot she never went inside again. now with my little yorkie... Tug oh little Tug. he is driving me nuts with that he is just now about six months old and is still pooping in the house. he was peeing in the house until we got some belly bands for him (great idea) he wears that all day while he is in the house and we take it off him as he runs out the door to go out. I thought we had finally won the battle a couple of weeks ago i was on the couch and i heard him give a little bark (which neither of them ever do) so i looked and he was sitting by the back door. i asked myself is it so?... sure enough he went out and did his thing and came back in. i was so happy i was doing jumping jacks. then the next thing i knew was our 2 year old boy came walking in the room saying "poop poop poop" holding a poop from tug. i was so upset with that little bugger. he was on the right track and then just threw it all away. now its not like he doesnt know that going inside is a bad thing. every time he does you know it because he is nowhere to be found and then when you do find him he just runs away and hides again like he is ashamed. we let them out every couple hours to go so i dont know what his problem is. i do the positive reinforcement when he goes outside. but it just seems like sometimes it sticks and other times it doesnt. its getting quite frustrating any ideas help thanks