Hello! I got my Yorkie 2 days ago and he will be 2 months old tomorrow. I heard crate training was the best so i have been doing that and usually he's okay sitting in the crate but sometimes he starts barking and whining. I was told that litter training would be good for him since it's way to cold to take him outside here (or is it? it's usually -20 to -30 Celsius) So i figured that since he is in the crate all night and he has little bladder control since he is still young, i'd leave the litter box in the crate with him. I read its good to make it very easy for the puppy to know where to go since he won't soil his own sleeping spot so i put blankets and toys on one side and the litter box on the other with no space in between. All day yesterday, he was very good and went pee in the litter box. He didn't want to poo and kept whining to get out. I realized after that he was whining because he wanted to go out and poo somewhere on the floor. I left him in the crate though and eventually he went poo in the litterbox. This made me happy as i thought he was quickly picking up. Now, if i let him outside to play with us and he needs to pee, he knows to go back to the crate (i THINK) because he always does but its like he doesn't realize that its not okay to pee where he sleeps since he is not currently there! Instead of going in the litter box, he pees on the blankets!! I put newspaper underneath the blankets and sometimes he'll push the blanket aside and pee/poo on the newspaper instead of just going in the litter box which is right beside him! I don't know why he is doing this. Any tips? Also it seems like he's only pooing once a day..maybe twice. He doesn't go shortly after he eats..like he'll eat a bit at a time during the day and he doesn't go to the washroom until waaay later. Is this normal? Thanks in advance!! I'd really appreciate any tips.
