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Originally Posted by lovespandp  Well I understand where YOU are coming from but IMO if you are home and able to watch your puppy they shouldnt be locked up esp for that long.. I mean come on.. I crated Peanut when he was a pup and I left for work. From 8-12 he was in his crate (with a bed toys blanket pee pad water and food) I came home on my lunch and he was out till 1 then he was in the until 3 when I got home.. Thats how I potty trained him.. On the weekends when I was home he was out of his crate... I think you have to take responsibilty when you have a puppy.. you cant just stick them in playpen. |
If you're going to get a puppy, you really need to know it's
just like having another baby. I think most parents would agree that keeping your young baby in it's crib all day except for 30 minutes would be a bit... cruel, would you? When Jackson was a puppy, I was waking up in the middle of the night when he had to go out. During the day, he would get 30 minutes in the crate, 30 minutes out, 30 minutes in, etc... I was also home for 3 weeks when I first got him and not in school/working so I had all the time in the world to be with him. If you're home all day, I don't see a reason why you can't give him more play-time. Puppies play hard and sleep hard. 15 minutes of hard play will pass him out for a good while. 30 minutes a day is not enough time, imo. Dogs are very social creatures who cannot live their life in a pen. Potty training IS very difficult and takes a ton of patience and consistency, especially w/ Yorkies being known as one of the most difficult breeds to house break. I am/was extremely diligent in Jacskon's training and he WILL still have the occasional accident. He's 99% potty trained strictly outdoors. I never messed around with the pads. Yorkies are known to take up to a year to potty train, or more, some never fully potty train, so I assume you don't want the pup living in a pen until he's 1 year old.
As for your original question about the poop, I don't ever remember Jackson pooping THAT much as a pup but they do poop more as puppies than adults. Jackson is 1 year old and generally poops 2-3x a day. As a puppy, it maybe was 5-6x, if that. I would look into maybe changing foods but do it very slowly so he doesn't get an upset stomach.
Also, I wanted to say, I hope you don't think we're coming down hard on you or anything. I know sometimes as a new poster, it may seem like that, but there's *so* much to learn on this site and we just try to help. I learned a TON from this website that I would have never known had I never asked. Sometimes I felt like maybe people were being way too harsh but most here know and want what is best for all the Yorkies out there.
