MacAllan
is doing great with house training, he is 8 months old, and very smart
. He is a Yorkie/Chapanese Chin Spaniel cross- "Jarkie" Mac has peed in the house once in 10 weeks, but has twice found a sneaky, carpeted corner and left a poop-bomb. I put him in his crate area- crate open and a latticed 3'x3' roaming area surrounds it, so he can play, when I am at work. He holds for over 9 hours and longer over night. Mac does not bark to go out, but sometimes goes to the patio door and gives you the look,
I am very routined with him.
He goes out immediatly when I get him in the morning, immediatly when I come home from work and about a half an hour after I observe him at the food dish. I also always let him out when we come back from anywhere. This tells him you are home and outside is where we potty! When he peed on a carpet, I cleaned it up and scolded him (mad face/stern look
)and put him out. I also put a little pillow and his extra blanket over the area when it dried, in hopes he'd see it as another bed area. This worked so far! But, he then found the downstairs laundry room carpet and has twice pooped there. Again I followed the same routine, minus the bed...now I watch him carefully and when he goes to the basement door I call out UH! UH! and he does not go downstairs. I am nervous that this will keep occuring, he has twice done this at his doggie daycare mommies house, (whom he adores too!)
when I work a longer day! How can I get him to indicate "I need to go
outside." He doesn't bark or whine
, and he is so good, you easily forget he is around? Can anyone tell me about the bell at the door routine
and what kind of bell I need? Thanks for any advice in advance...I just love this little guy and want to be able to trust him!
He learns new routines by the second or third time he does them.