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Originally Posted by YorkieSpirit1  sportschick: why do you have to put the crate on the floor to let her out,
can't you just open the door and lift her out? Emy's not allowed to free
roam the house, so I carry her from the bedroom to the kitchen, where
she is babygated, and I carry her to the livingroom to the couch. She only
has access to kitchen and front entry where I have that gated also with
another crate. Keep front door open so she can look outside, works out
good so far, don't trust her yet, she still chews alot. |
I used to have to do that with her because, you are right, you can't trust them for a LONG time not to pee and poop wherever they want. Now I can just open the crate door and she runs into the kitchen on the pee pad. When I am home, she has the run of the house. When I go to work, I allow her the kitchen and the living room and I put another pee pad tray in the living room. MOST of the time she is very good, but she does have her "incidents" which usually involve her not getting her way and I swear she gets back at me by peeing or pooping on the floor NEXT to the pee pad tray.
Now she has decided that when we go for our daily walks, she will just stop. I end up having to drag her forward. She will do this every few minutes now. She just stops, sniffs the ground and then wants to look around at everything, THEN she will move forward. I mean what the heck is going on with this doggie?? Is it equivalent to the terrible twos in children? She never did that before, as a matter of fact, she would walk/jog so fast that I had to jog with her. She has these long, long legs that really move. And she will lift her leg up and try and sniff her pee pee area. I am assuming she wants to pee, but she very seldom will pee outside. She will hold it till we get home and go on the pee pad.
I do hope that her legs aren't bothering her and that is why she keeps stopping or that she has some kind of urinary tract infection.
I am curious if anyone else has gone through these types of things when their Yorkie hit the above 12 month old stage, and if so, how long does this last? In other words, is all this stuff "normal" for these little doggies or should I worry that something is going on with her physically.
This is my first dog, and I am having to learn everything and I want to make sure I do things right and keep her healthy and safe.