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Originally Posted by lpham  My puppy is 11 wks right now and when I first got her, we were doing crate training. She soiled from the beginning but I didn't know until I took her bedding out to wash and it had absorbed a ton of pee. So I took the bedding out in hopes of eliminating that behavior. She still soiled her crate anyways. I really think she soils in her crate because for one she hates being in there and two I think she knows that she will get to come out if she soils in the crate. I want her to enjoy being in her crate but I hate having her soil and then be standing in her pee and poo.
So right now I have her gated inside my fairly small bathroom with her pee pee pad on one end and food and bedding on the other side. When she is in there she doesn't make mistakes about 85% of the time but of course I let her out so she can play but for the most part she spends her time in there occupying herself with toys and sleeping. I know crating doesn't work with all dogs but my ultimate goal is just to get her 100% housebroken because its already been over 6 wks of working with her on potty training and its frustrating not seeing 100% progress already. Should I change what I'm doing or use an x-pen instead? Is there a better way of housebreaking her? I want her to have freedom but she is not at all reliable around the house. |
Just a few suggestions on peeing in the crate, when I got my baby yorkie we were having trouble with him wetting everywhere, he was 2 month old and not toilet trained, I got him a large playpen especially for dogs and attached that to his crate, we put black polythene on the bottom of the pen under that we put cardboard, and on top of that we used news papers, just in two to three places, then we put a couple of pieces of paper in different places in the room out side his pen, he quickly learnt to go on the news papers, and never once peed in his bed.
We lock him in the pen at night, and when we can't take him out with us.
He still pees and poos on the news papers at night time, on the odd occasion but we can clean that up with not too much trouble, and we get a full nights sleep.
We thought at first we were not going to be able to cope as we are elderly, but now he is really good.
He is 9 months old.
Hope this is of help, and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me, I am always happy to help you.
I will put you on my friendship list and hope that we can stay in contact.
Best wishes, and hope everything works out fine for you and your little yorkie.
Leone and Yorky
