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Originally Posted by miababyjeff  I am beside myself and I about ready to give up. I have tried and tried to have patience with this potty training thing. I feel like we got our yorkie from a puppy mill, only we paid almost 2000.00 for her from a "show breeder". Obviously she was raised like she lived in a pet store because our puppy is a nightmare to housetrain. She poops in her kennel and pees, she jumped on my sofa and pooped, she pooped on my bed pillow. I had a yorkie before that would have NEVER pooped in her bed in her crate! So what the heck is wrong with this dog and will she ever get it? I take her out constantly to go potty and give her treats when she goes and she has done it like 100 hundred times, but obviously it is not registering with her that she is supposed to go outside and why would she be ok with pooping in her own bed? It makes me so upset that we spent so much money for a dog that the breeder did nothing for as far as training. |
Unfortunately you are just not a patient person when it comes to puppies anyhow. what did you do with that 6 month old female you bought in March? You wanted to give her back to the breeder 4 days after you got her because she had yeasty ears and wasn't playful enough or trained.
You have a BABY, did you expect your children to be potty trained by 6 months? Asking that of a tiny 16 week old puppy is the same as expecting your children to be trained.
It takes time, and tonsssssssssss of patience and lots of commitment and consistency. Puppies DO poop and pee in their crates sometimes, it is an old wives tale that a dog will not potty where they sleep. if they have to go, they are going to go. It doesn't mean it's the breeders fault. It is your own actually. They will eventually stop. i have been through it many times.
When our dogs and pups have accidents it is usually our own fault is what i am trying to say.
Yorkies, like any toy dog, mature much slower than larger breeds so they also learn slower (for the most part). They take much longer to potty train too. I have a 5 year old that still has accidents and she came from a good breeder and has no health issues.
What made a difference for us is putting in a doggy door. We put it through our wall out to the deck and now the little ones are using it even our tiny 5 year old yorkie and our 2 year old tiny chihuahua..
You haven't give this puppy time to adjust to a new home and life and routine, instead you blame the breeder like you did with the last yorkie you bought.
I have noticed you have posted several times and then do not come back to the thread. If you want help, then stick around and take advice given. PLEASE STOP blaming the poor puppy!
Maybe you should forget about toy breeds and get a larger dog, they are much easier to train..