Hi everyone,
Thanks for allowing me to join your group. I know how special and specific yorkies can be from 16 years with my beloved Loki so I thought I would join a Yorkie based forum to get some advice with my newest one
Teddy will be seven months on 1 April and he is a joy. He is very confident and outgoing and we love him very much, great with kids and other animals; perfect every way except one… Toilet problems.
Now Teddy is fantastic at asking to go out during the day and we never have any accidents. I can happily pop out for 3/4 hours to go shopping and run some errands and I come home and the house is just as I left it. He doesn't chew anything, he doesn't pee and he doesn't poop.
He is fed every morning around 9/10 AM, I tried to take him out for walk in the afternoon and he poops and he is then fed approximately 5PM and he then goes out for a walk with my husband between 8/9 PM and does a poop on this walk. Me and my husband normally head upstairs anywhere from 9:30 PM to 11 PM depending on how tired we are and Teddy has always been kept downstairs in our lounge as for the time being we don't want to share our room with him so we can retain our relationship and intimacy blah blah blah.
He has been dry through the day for ages but he's never quite got the hang of not toileting through the night and whilst he stopped peeing and pooping quite a while ago, the pooping seems to have come back. It was every 3/4 days that we would find one and he would get this stern "no" and put out in the garden and he would get praise if we came down and there was nothing. However for the last five days he has pooped on our floor every evening and I'm not really sure how to tackle this? When we come down in the morning on a night when he hasn't pooped he is full of beans, happy to CS and runs upstairs and jumped on the bed. On the mornings when he has toileted, he is very quiet and skulks about because he knows that we're not going to be happy.
He hasn't been crated so I don't really want to start doing that now in case it upsets him. I don't know whether I should maybe be feeding him earlier or later or whether to come downstairs and let him out again just before bed but certainly until he doesn't toilet during the night, I'm not prepared to allow him upstairs.
By this age my old Yorkie had stopped Toileting on the floor and only in the garden so it's driving me crackers that I cannot stop Teddy from doing this.
I know that Yorkshire Terriers can be difficult little so-and-so's to train and break habits but I would be very interested to get anyone's feedback on how I could possibly tackle this? Xx