Thank you so much for your advice. I have been making myself nuts with this potty thing. it is amazing that I had NO trouble training any other breed of dog. This yorkie has made me nervous and my mind think different because of her size and all of the potential health situations that could occur (hyper..something, etc). I have done everything from blocking off kitchen , to pen with crate in it, to pen with ony pad and bed in it to now finally doing what I have done for all my previous pups.....the crate. I am just hoping that since her intake is less that that means she can stillhold it like the others did (do). I have decided to take your advice and come home from work after a certain amount of time and let her out (either outside or on pad). Put her back into the crate and back to work. I do believe that the pen will only make training take longer. If an accident happens on the floor of the pen then how can you correct them. I am hoping that she will NOT want to be soiled and so she will keep area clean and then continue to go on command. I read all of the information from the site you suggested. Thank you. I took down my pen and have decided that that should be used AFTER I know that she is trained. Yes, she goes on the pad whenever we travel but she still will go the occasional time off of it. I think that she knows touse the pad vut she doesn't know that the rest of the floor is NOT good. What time do (did) you feed your little one? Do you remember you time schedules that you did at first? Thanks again. I think I better go to sleep since this is going to be a long night. I am sue that seh will be up by 2 and I will have to be a wake trying to get her to go on command. lol thanks again. Kathy
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Originally Posted by fozzybear My wife and I are working stiffs too. We were able to potty train our Fozzy in no time at all. This was done following the basic tenants of crate training. We did the following after reading and understanding this: http://www.dogdaysusa.com/behaviorce...setraining.asp
1. The week after we got him, I took Friday off of work. We spent all Friday, Saturday, and Sunday training.
2. For the next 2 weeks I came home after 4/4.5 hours and let Fozzy out. My wife was home about 4hrs later and we worked with the Fozzy during the crate/outside/play/outside/create thing.
3. After the two weeks Fozzy was up to 8hrs. as long as we managed his intake appropriately (eating really early in the morning and doing out thing). Dogs love their crates and will just sleep all day if they have the chance. The only problem we had was that when out cleaning lady came she did not let Fozzy out, obviously he got incredibly excited and messed his create (would you blame him). We 86'ed the cleaning lady for one that would take him out when she came.
4. Fast forward to today almost 1yr. Fozzy has been 100% for almost 7 months.
P.S. A radio is great comfort for a young pup in his create, Fozzy listened to the Howard Stern show for his first 3 months with us.
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