To the girl who is getting her first Yorkie and has been reading this thread. Yes, it is kind of frightening. And yes, it is totally draining and exhausting and you might even feel like I did the other day that you want to give her back. BUT, you will have a wonderful day like I did yesterday with her and you will feel better. Beanie is a really good, sweet, affectionate dog who is trying to learn as much as I am. I have made a lot of mistakes in the past 12 days with her, but everytime she pees and poops on the papers where she is SUPPOSED to, I feel like I have made some strides. I am still learning the signals of when she has to go.
The one thing I can tell you is DO NOT DO WHAT I DID WHEN I FIRST GOT HER. DO NOT give her the run of your house. She will pee and poo wherever she wants. My dog was paper trained and I undid it all by letting her run around. I felt so bad for her when she first got her because she was so scared and I didn't want to coop her up at all. WRONG THING. I had taken 3 days off from work, so I had time to do things right, but I effed up. So now I am trying to undo my mistake.
Whatever you do, if you are going to have her potty indoors, PLEASE don't let her run around your house. You can't give a puppy too much space because they will take advantage of it.
Unfortunately I DO work so I can't do what a lot of people here do which is take the dogs outside to go every few hours. So I HAVE to train her to go on the papers. I tried wee pads, but she ripped them up, so it is going to have to be papers. |