Also, on marking vs. peeing: they may be driven by different needs, but I think if a dog smells its urine in the house, it's going to assume it's okay to pee indoors. I don't know if it's going to be feasible to let him mark indoors but forbid indoor pottying. Add that to the fact that the rules are different when you're not around, and you have one confused dog. Heck, I'm confused!
Basically, you need to clean up behind him with an enzyme cleaner like Nature's Miracle. All efforts should be made to take him out before he's forced to relieve himself in his crate. If that happens enough, he's going to get used to it and pee in there regardless.
I haven't had experience with a studded yorkie, but I've been around other types of terriers after they mated, and they still didn't mark indoors. They may have wanted to, but they were not allowed. I don't know, maybe it's different for yorkies since they are already such little pee monsters.
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Last edited by QuickSilver; 03-26-2009 at 07:31 AM.
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