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Originally Posted by barkleylove  Welcome to YT! I'm pretty new also. Congratulations on your new family members! I also brought home two 12 week old yorkie pups the beginning of November and they are brother and sister from the same litter. Isn't it great?!?! I was having the same issue with Maggie eating her brother Bogey's poop but she seems to have stopped doing it. Just curious how you are housebreaking them. I'm using an x-pen right now and pee pads but in the spring I'd like start training them to potty outside. I just ordered a recommended book from other YTer's "How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days". |
Congratulations on your new babies! I love their names. I gotta say, I'm glad we got 2, they have someone to play with especially when we're at work. We're coming up to 6 months and we haven't house broken them yet
We're trying a few methods of crate training and pee pads. In the beginning we were just crate training where we'll probably keep them in the crate for about 1-2 hours and "taxi" them outside to potty. If they don't do anything, we'll bring them back in and crate them for 15 minutes before taking them back out. It varied on times if it would work without accidents. We introduced the pee pads about 2 months ago as back up for when they aren't in the crate and roaming around. They do prefer to go outside, however, at times they would use it for one of the needs but not the other. For example, Peanut would poop on the pad but would rarely pee on it, she'd rather pee on her dog bed or outside. Yager on the other hand would run to the pad to pee and poop on the floor.
Hope this helps. I'm hoping they will be housebroken sooner than later, but it seems like each puppies take longer than some.
