So I decided to adopt a 6 month old female Yorkie. I named her "Butters". She's cute. Except whenever I leave her in her play pen or leave her sight, she goes absolutely nuts. Bark-o-rama nuts. Like the world has ended. Other than that she's pretty quiet when I'm around.
I don't carry her or pick her up incessantly, I keep her in a 2 x 4 playpen in my living room and she's okay as long as I'm around. She doesn't do this with anyone else. If I wasn't in the house she would go crazy without me and if she was with someone else, she won't stop barking unless you pick her up. And when you do pick her up she'll start crying.
My training is slowly improving her habits. I can go upstairs for a few minutes and leave her in the living room playpen and at most, she'll whine and cry. But for the most part she won't leave me alone and when she does, she'll bark and cry.
I don't have a problem with her following me around the place, but the problem is that I can't house train her. She'll pee or poop anywhere near me and will not go on a pee-pad in fear of being left alone. My other Yorkie "Peanut", who living in a different city with my wife, is house trained. He'll go outside and if he can't leave the house, he'll run to the pee-pad and go there.
It's been a month since I got her and it feels like a slow uphill battle with a 7 month old dog. My other Yorkie "Peanut" who I got at 10 weeks only took me 2 weeks to house train.
How do you house train a dog that has a severe case of separation anxiety? When I got her from the original owners, she was living with her Yorkie parents, and I'm guessing they never separated her from them. But for some reason she won't calm down with anyone else other than me, and she's been doing this since day 1! Seriously, I don't baby this dog for that reason. I take her to work everyday to be socialized and I barely carry her, but still I feel like it's not improving enough. Can anyone suggest any other ideas that would help?
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