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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. |
awww - she's still a very young puppy - it takes some a long time to be trained - and someone asked but how long is she crated ? Spending alot of money on a pet doesn't ensure you'll have a well trained dog but it sounds like you're really trying -
Try not to be upset with her - she probably knows no better and as she matures I bet she will eventually catch on.....just keep your patience level way up there and keep up with the praise.
I've never crate trained but if I had I'd limit the time in a crate. They're so much happier with some freedom and also want to please US so don't give up !!
It took my oldest 2 weeks to be completely trained - my youngest 11 months - go figure ! She still has little accidents but she tries very hard not too. I work all day so it's a bit harder to keep up with her especially when it rains but when she does have an 'accident' - she knows it and always runs out to her 'place' on my patio to show me she didn't mean it - it's hard to be upset when you know they really want to be good.
I just want to say again - she's very young. Some never really train but as she matures she'll probably be more receptive to going where you want her too.
sorry this is so long - getting ready for work and shouldn't even be here right now !
ps - many breeders whether show breeders or not do keep their pets in cages or crates - wish it wasn't true but they do. You really never know and hope for the best but not all out there believe in training - they just want to sell puppies.