 Training
Thank you so much for the reply. Is your yorkie as small as mine? FiFi will only get to be about 3lbs max. I neglected to mention a few other details. I have two kids (4 and 8) and another dog. The other dog is great and will sleep whereever. My kids on the other hand are not as good (laughin). My 8 year old tends to sleep walk and talk in his sleep while my 4 year old has a tendencey to call out for me at 3 or 4 am (to make sure I am there...probably because my mother died recently). At any rate, this is one reason why I keep her crate in the basement. I am afraid, and it has, the midnight walks (not all the time) startle her (my tiny watchdog) and I have to take her out then too. So, to being us up to date. On the weekends FiFi runs around all day in the house (with supervision) or is outside running and playing (whiloe the weather is nice anyway). If we are not home she goes into her crate. I take her to work with me and she is in a crate when no one is in my office,otherwise she is out and about. She uses a wee wee pad at work and both at home. The past two nights I put her into her crate in the downstairs room. I heard her cry at 3-4 and let her cry for 1/2 hour before I took her out. I took her out and then put her back into her crate (unlike before when I tookher into bed). She hasn't been crying when I put her in. She then whines around 5:30 or 6am (depending on when dad goes to work). I let her out and then feed them and let them out to run a bit. I did put the blanket over the crate as you suggested. At any rate, the crate has been dry, so far. I am still sure that if I ignore her 3am cry she will mess the crate. Ithink that she doesn't want to but I am sure that she will anyway. I also keep the crate downstairs in case she does mess it. The backdoor is right there. I can open the backdoor and take the tray right out. I am also able to pick her right up and take her out back too. Do you think the bedroom would still be better? I also know that if I come in late, and tip toe in upstairs, she hears me and has to be let out to go. She won't stop whining (occasionaly I waitress on weekends until 3am). That is partly why the 3 am thing continues. Problem is that during the week I have a regular job with regular hours and need regular sleep (laughin). Ok...if you can figure all of that out thenyou are real good (smilin). I guess my real questionis: Can this little girl hold it for more than 4 or 5 hours? She has been pretty good about going on the pad or outside )(occasionally she will go to poop where she shouldn't...which doesn't make me happy either). My other pup is also 5 1/2 months (cocker/bigon) and has been trained since 11 weeks too. Thanks for any and all help. - kathy |