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Originally Posted by AngelFae  Ok, I know this goes against current popular belief but with Blazer, when I didn't catch him having an accident and didn't show it to him, just cleaned it up, it would happen again. When I would show him his mess, tell him "NO!" and take him immeadiately outside, tell him "Go potty!" then praise him, he stopped having accidents. I don't agree that dogs don't understand what they are getting in trouble for. They know their own scent, they know their own puddles and piles. If they are being trained to potty outside and you show them a mistake they made inside I think they know and they learn. Yorkies are notoriously smart dogs. |
I'm gonna agree with Angel. Yorkies are VERY smart and I always had a hard time believing that a dog would poo/pee in the house and then forget 5 minutes later that they made the mess. If they can be trained to "remember" that outside=good and trained to remember all sorts of commands, they must also remember that mess they made 5 minutes ago. I just don't believe their memory span is that short. Having said that, I believe that if the dog is going in the house, they simply have too much free reign OR they have not been taught to remember that going inside=bad and going outside=good. Until they are housebroken, they MUST be tethered at all times to make sure you can see them doing the deed, to correct that behavior. Something that helped expedite housebreaking for me was hanging a bell and teaching her to ring it when it was time to go out. After she learned to the ring the bell, accidents were far and few in between and usually only occurred if I didn't respond to her request to go out fast enough.