Potty training....

[Simmy17]

My baby is 5 months old although she is very new to us...only a couple of weeks in our home. Just wondering when you'd consider the puppy potty trained. We take her out and she goes. Since having her she has only peed once or twice. She sleeps in crate at night 10 to 6 with no issues. We do leave her out of crate during day and she has her own spacious safe place. We've only left her 4 hours and she hasn't gone. The other night I took her out at 7 and she peed on floor before our 945 walk/bed routine..... But can go 4/5 hours if we are out if house?


Is she getting it? Or am I being fooled into thinking I am doing well with potty training? I know Yorkies have issues with training so I was wondering what some other furry parents as think?

[kreuer]

Originally Posted by Simmy17

My baby is 5 months old although she is very new to us...only a couple of weeks in our home. Just wondering when you'd consider the puppy potty trained. We take her out and she goes. Since having her she has only peed once or twice. She sleeps in crate at night 10 to 6 with no issues. We do leave her out of crate during day and she has her own spacious safe place. We've only left her 4 hours and she hasn't gone. The other night I took her out at 7 and she peed on floor before our 945 walk/bed routine..... But can go 4/5 hours if we are out if house?


Is she getting it? Or am I being fooled into thinking I am doing well with potty training? I know Yorkies have issues with training so I was wondering what some other furry parents as think?

Sound like you are doing great! Does she have a way of telling you she needs to go out? Lexi potty trained quickly, but if I didn't see her at the door in time she would have an accident on the floor. We then started with a bell on the door knob. I would hit it every time I took her out to potty. Only took her 1 day to catch on and start doing it her self.

[Simmy17]

So I take her out usually at 6, 10, varies if we go out, 4,7/8ish and 945....so if I get a bell do I hit it every time I go out? She mostly pees every time I take her out. Just don't want to confuse bell ringing with just wanting to be out....thanks. Heard about the bell at door but not sure procedure..... Thank you

[kreuer]

Originally Posted by Simmy17

So I take her out usually at 6, 10, varies if we go out, 4,7/8ish and 945....so if I get a bell do I hit it every time I go out? She mostly pees every time I take her out. Just don't want to confuse bell ringing with just wanting to be out....thanks. Heard about the bell at door but not sure procedure..... Thank you

I hit the bell only when it was time to go potty. I personally used the front yard only for potty and the back yard for play (and potty If she needed to). I would go to the door, hit the bell and say, "let's go potty. " If she already doesn't know the word potty make sure you use it right when she goes too like "good potty". That way she makes the connection of the bell ringing and going potty. Once she goes potty she comes right back in so she knows the bell means go potty and that's it. She did go through a phase where she would ring the bell just to go outside and play. To stop that, I would give her enough time to go potty and if she didn't she came right back in. Once she realized she didn't get to play, she stopped that. I probably missed something, but i hope that helps!