Hello everyone! I apologize ahead of time for being AWOL from the board. Life has been extremely busy as of late, as I am sure most of yours are too!
Okay....I am completely frustrated. We have an adorable Yorkshire Terrier named "Ollie". He will be 3 on the 31 of this month (July). We purchased him last fall (October) from what I am quite sure was a puppy mill. Ollie seemed to have spent most of his time in a crate. When I asked the lady about Ollie, she said that he was paper-trained. We bring him home and he has been peeing all over our house. This is STILL going on 9 months later and I am getting really angry at this point. He is a beautiful little dog, listens, never barks at all etc. but this peeing is something that I can't live with. What the heck do we do with him? He knows what "outside" is. He will go out for a walk, a sniff around the backyard whatever, pee one thousand times out there and then come in and pee on whatever he can INSIDE the house. Now when we bought Ollie, the lady said that she was selling him because he was no good for breeding because he has one undescended testicle. Do you think this has anything at all to do with the peeing? Or is it just a "marking" thing? We praise excessively and give him treats when he comes in from peeing and pooping outside, but there is a definite dis-connect in his doggy brain when he persists on peeing inside. This is also a problem because believe it or not, I can NEVER catch him in the act. I will scorn when I am knelt down cleaning up the pee. But Ollie just does NOT seem to get it at all. We have barracaded him in a lino-floored space (kitchen) when we have gone out for a few hours, and we will come back to a pee. He can't even seem to hold it! Arghhh.....can you tell that I am at my wits end? If any of you have any suggestions, I will be forever endebitted to you!
Thank-you for reading all of this!
Lisa