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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". |
Congrats on the new puppies!!! I gotta say, I'm glad we got the 2 of them, they are definitely not lonely when we're not home and for the most part, they sleep through the night for us.
We've been doing both the crate training and pee pads. Unfortunately, for us, they're coming up to 6 months and they're not housebroken yet. In the beginning, we just did the crate training and took them outside to a designated play pen for them to go potty in. We would take them out about every 1-2 hours, if they didn't do anything, we would bring them back into the crate for 15 minutes and take them back out. We did let them run around the whole back yard, but it got to the point where they ran so fast and we couldn't keep up with where they pooped and didn't want them going into the neighbors yard. We thought it'd be easier get the play pen that can also be used for kids.
About 2 months ago, we introduced the pee pads - with the pee pad holder- as our back up for when we let them roam longer in the kitchen. We keep one next to the sliding door where we take them out, and another pad not to far. They were 50/50 with the pads, Yager would run to the pad to pee but would poop on the floor. Peanut originally pee on the pad when she needed to go when we're not outside, but now she would poop on the pad but would pee elsewhere or next to the pad. We're hoping it clicks for them sooner than later, but I guess it's all about patience.
Hope this helps. I ran into a Yorkie mom back in September who also pee pad trained their puppy and said she was able to get her trained within 2 weeks.