[Sophie2010]

Hi All!

I have two female yorkies: Sophie (1 year 8 months) and Rudy (8 months). We brought Rudy home back in January. Sophie has been pretty much 100% house trained since last summer. A very occasional accident, but they were usually our fault.

However, over the past three or so weeks she's completely regressed! About 50% of the time she goes to the door and rings her bell, but the other 50% she just goes where she wants or rings the bell but pees if you're not right there. They're large amounts of urine, but she's not drinking any more water than usual. In addition, there has been an accident or two in their crate in the morning, but since they share it's hard to tell who did it.

We have taken her to the vet and she physically checks out perfectly and so does her urine. The vet said maybe something happened outside which has made her nervous, but we can't imagine what that is. We always go out with her and have never seen anything out of the ordinary.

Does anyone have any suggestions? We're trying crate training again and giving her a lot of praise when she goes outside, but at this point our 8 month old is more house-trained than she is.

Any advice would be appreciated!!

Sylvia