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Originally Posted by rumdust  He has the living room and the kitchen as well as the hall that is all he is aloud. However he does find his way in the bedroom no matter how i block it. There is a 8 year old llhasa apso that has never been properly potty trained that he lives with. He also bites and chases my cat. I love him I dont want to have to give him back to his breeder. |
As long as there is another untrained dog in the same place as the Yorky, then it will be really hard or next to impossible to train your dog. Both dogs need to be in separate crates while you are out. Then put your dog on a leash while your home so you can see what it is doing and pay attention to it while it is out of the crate.
I'm confused by the way you wrote... There is a 8 year old llhasa apso that has never been properly potty trained that he lives with. Is this dog yours also, or does it belong to another person?
Get a squirt gun and squirt the lasa every time he chases the cat or tries to bite. Tell him NO every time he does it while you squirt him!!!
Both dogs need to be in their own separate crates while everyone is out. Just follow any good house training book, there are several good ones out there that have more than one way to accomplish this. Just keep it up. Many Yorkies take a long while to house train,but the human has to follow the same rules everytime or the poor dog will fail.
Why would you have to give him back to his breeder? Is this because you don't know how to house train him? This is not a good enough reason to give him back because you failed to train him. Though if that is your last resort, the breeder would be the best thing for him, if indeed they agree to take him back. Have you asked your breeder for help/advice in house training him?
But first, before you give him back, you should get a good book and keep trying !!! Many small dogs are hard to train and if the human has no idea how to do it, then both are doomed to failure.
There is no one magic formula to train a dog. There are many good books that are not expensive and you can always call a good used bookstore and see what they have there in the way of housetraining books.
Please get a book, there are several videos on utube that have good advice on house training dogs, don't limit yourself to the Yorky ones, look at as many as it takes to get several ideas. There is a book , the title I can't remember exactly, but it something like The Hard to Train Dog, saw it at Borders yesterday. It had 10 or so pages on house training,(alone) small dogs, and explaining owner expectations and reality of the small dog.
If you love your dog, please go the extra mile and keep trying. YOU OWE it to him!!!!!!
Good luck. Don't give up!