Hi Everyone, My wife and I just got a new Yorkie and thanks to this forum I think we have been some what successful with training Matilda. A few problems we are having are as follows:
She is 6 months old and we've had her for a month
1. When she is left alone she constantly barks.. I mean constantly, I left and stood outside for a half hour and she never stopped barking and when I do get home she is shaking. I started off by leaving her alone for 10 minutes and have gotten up to hours but like I said she barks the whole time
2. At night she sleeps in a crate and wakes up every 2 hours on the nose. I originally was taking her out everytime she woke up but she wouldn't go to the bathroom at all. Then the one time I just told her to be quiet and go to sleep she pooped in her crate... At what age do they start sleeping through the night?
3. She has a day pen she stays in when we are not home. It's about 10' by 7' and it has her bed, food and pottie pads in it. She does pretty good with making it to the pads btu sometimes goes just off the pad. I figure she thinks she is on but not quite. When we are home and she needs to go she will run towards her pen and poop just outside of it. Any thoughts?
I apologize for this being so long but I wanted to try to get all the info out there. Again, Thanks for the info that we have already gotten off this site!!!
Scott& Tracy