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Originally Posted by Buffalogirl  I have been trying to housetraining Freyja for 3 years. I started to train her on pee pads but got complaints from partner that house smells like dog pee all the time and is very angry about it. This has caused a lot of embarrassment with friends who have pointed out that our house smells like pee. Partner will not participate in any training because yorkie is "my dog". Freyja uses pee pads more or less reliable but she will still play with her poop and spread it all over our rugs if she isn't watched. I have sanitized, shampooed and scrubbed the rugs but she will still poop and pee on various rugs if i don't watch her, even after she has been let out and has pooped outside. I have confined her, crated her, walked her but she will still do her thing in the house. I have fed her on demand, on schedule, limited her water and/or food, and she still doesn't get it. Or maybe I don't. This has caused extreme family tension and I am frankly at my wits end.
Question: Is is time to give her away? |
It is not time to give her away unless you want to give up on training yourself about how to house train your dog. Some of the things you are doing are right, but you are missing crucial parts of her housetraining lessons. I say this because while you mention all the right things, you didn't include some really important communication with the dog and keeping your eye on her at all times.
The purpose of confining and crating is to keep the poop and pee confined and most dogs eventually learn to keep their place of confinement clean. The area of confinement must be kept clean and the dog must be kept clean or they will mess the area they are kept in and become depressed. This becomes vicious cycle. Not implying that you would let it go that far, just mentioning it because it is important to keep everything from attracting her back to 'do it' again
So, when you are out of the house, keep her confined.
When you are home,put her on a short leash attached to you, inside your home. Make yourself aware of her every movement, while you're doing chores, if she moves, take a quick look and make note,'is she acting like she wants to 'go' ? if not, go back to what you were doing.
If you want to put her outside, put her on a leash and go outside with her and tell her in short, easy,(for her) to understand words,"go pee pee", "tinkle",etc
Praise her as if she has done the best thing in the world as soon as she has finished. Give her a treat and repeat what she did that was so wonderfull.
Do what ever schedual that fits you best. But, keep her confined when she is inside the home and not attached to you by a leash.
There are many wonderful books and methods, just keep doing what you are doing and include 'teaching words',praising words and keeping her confined while your out . Especially attaching the leash, an umbilical cord if you will...,can make you aware of her behavior and you will know where she is, not off somewhere doing what you don't want her to
All dogs need exercise, the bigger they are, the more exercise they need and they love it! Thank goodness Yorkies are so small, but they still need to be walked every day. This helps their system to be healthy so they can regulate, digest and eliminate!!! This also helps them regulate their pent up engergy. They have lots of energy and need to burn it off every day or they get into mischef or create mischef out of bordom.
Keep at it and don't let your partner let the dog out of confinement if this person is not going to participate in housetraining. Only let them play with the dog under your careful supervision
Good luck, some of these dogs take a while to learn and we do too