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Honey's_Mom · 04-20-2005, 09:46 AM

My 2- year old female Yorkie

is paper trained. She has a large puppy pen (with the two levels so pee falls to papers below) that she stays in during the day while we are at work. At night, she alternates sleeping with us and in her doggie bed on an ottoman at the foot of our bed. Her sleeping arrangements are a whole other subject!!

We keep her pen in the bathroom beside our bed room. At the beginning (after she finally "got it" where she was supposed to go), we would keep the bathroom door open but she would not always hop up into the pen and we would wake up to find pee and poop all over the bathroom floor. My husband seemed to think she was just half asleep when she got up and was too lazy to jump into the kennel. We would try to catch her when she got up, but being sound asleep and all, weren't all that consistent. Plus, how many of you have yelled "no" to a squatting dog only to wake a sleeping, grumpy husband?

Anyway, after one too many times of scrubbing the grout in my tile bathroom floor

, we started closing the bathroom door. Now, she scratches the door to be let into the bathroom. This would not be a problem if she would only go once or twice a night. It seems between myself and my husband, we get up at least 3-4 times a night! I am afraid if we just ignore her, she will either a.) pee on the carpet in front of the bathroom door (which she has done before) or b.) just keep scratching the door until everyone wakes up anyway.

How do we teach her to hold it? Since she has access to her pen/papers all day long - she really has never learned the bladder control like a dog who goes outside would have. I have started pulling up her food and water before we go to bed (she used to have access to the water all night - I thought it might be cruel for her to have no water down- my husband said after she peed at 2 or 3 in the morning, she was just going in there to re-fill the tank!) but now I am thinking we are not pulling it up early enough. What is too early for having no water down and is that cruel??

I love my little girl, but she definitely exhibits a lot of the "typical" Yorkie traits - stubborness, etc. SHE IS SO SPOILED!! We just need to get a full night of sleep soon!!

04-20-2005, 09:46 AM	#1
Honey's_Mom Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 62	Paper trained but night time accidents - is it just laziness?? My 2- year old female Yorkie is paper trained. She has a large puppy pen (with the two levels so pee falls to papers below) that she stays in during the day while we are at work. At night, she alternates sleeping with us and in her doggie bed on an ottoman at the foot of our bed. Her sleeping arrangements are a whole other subject!! We keep her pen in the bathroom beside our bed room. At the beginning (after she finally "got it" where she was supposed to go), we would keep the bathroom door open but she would not always hop up into the pen and we would wake up to find pee and poop all over the bathroom floor. My husband seemed to think she was just half asleep when she got up and was too lazy to jump into the kennel. We would try to catch her when she got up, but being sound asleep and all, weren't all that consistent. Plus, how many of you have yelled "no" to a squatting dog only to wake a sleeping, grumpy husband? Anyway, after one too many times of scrubbing the grout in my tile bathroom floor , we started closing the bathroom door. Now, she scratches the door to be let into the bathroom. This would not be a problem if she would only go once or twice a night. It seems between myself and my husband, we get up at least 3-4 times a night! I am afraid if we just ignore her, she will either a.) pee on the carpet in front of the bathroom door (which she has done before) or b.) just keep scratching the door until everyone wakes up anyway. How do we teach her to hold it? Since she has access to her pen/papers all day long - she really has never learned the bladder control like a dog who goes outside would have. I have started pulling up her food and water before we go to bed (she used to have access to the water all night - I thought it might be cruel for her to have no water down- my husband said after she peed at 2 or 3 in the morning, she was just going in there to re-fill the tank!) but now I am thinking we are not pulling it up early enough. What is too early for having no water down and is that cruel?? I love my little girl, but she definitely exhibits a lot of the "typical" Yorkie traits - stubborness, etc. SHE IS SO SPOILED!! We just need to get a full night of sleep soon!!