Originally Posted by hatajay  Hi all,
My name is Frank and I have two puppies. I have a female maltese at 5 months old, and a female yorkie at 2.5 month old.
The problem I am having is with the yorkie. I have had her, Violin, for the past 3 weeks. When I got her out of the breeder's house, the breeder told me that she's potty trained with training pads. The breeder also told me that she missed sometimes because she is such a baby.
The first night I had to put her in my bed since she was winning (most likely because she has had separation anxiety since she left the mother too young). Big mistake! She did it right on the bed!
I was going to use the same routine with my maltese, which was I would put diaper and diaper guard on Violin. But since she is so small, even size xxs is still too big as of this day, she could easily slip through it. Yet again, she soiled my bed again.
She has had problems with training pads as well. I use pens to set her a space in my bathroom (about 3 ft long). I put down the diaper at one end, and her bed at the other. She soiled her bed the first day. Immediately, I washed her bed and she did it again 2 days later. She would go #1, #2 in her bed, please note that I usually shower her at least once a day.
She usually would go do her thing on training pads, then she would tear apart the training pads, then #1 and #2 all over the floor. I have tried putting her in crate, she first chewed on the bedding and I had to remove that. I put rags or t-shirts in instead according to other people's suggestion. I have listened to the advice which is given her food and treats and toys in crate, yet she still soiled her crate.
The incident that I just had 30 minutes ago happened when I went downstairs in my apartment to have dinner. After I came back to her in the pens (I had her in crate previously, she went #2 on training pads and I knew she needed to go #1 any time), she was on the rugs which below it was her crap. She had it all over the floor, and her too, not to mention the rugs. I have run out of ways to train her at least not that in the crate or on the floor all the time. I read about that dogs do not soil their beds and where they eat. Well, not my yorkie. I have done putting her on training pad and ask her to "get busy" every morning, before and after breakfast and dinner, and every 3 hours in between. After she had done that, I would praise her. She sometimes would do good, but sometimes would be bad. Just like today, I had to gave her a bath twice.
Would someone please give me advice on how to resolve her issues on housebreaking? Obviously I have to do so indoors since she is too young to be outside. I would also be very happy to see not to #1 or #2 all over the place and not covered in those bacteria all the time.
Thank you all in advance to read through soooooooo much introduction!
Frank |