More questions about my yorkie...need lots of answers!
 

I know I have posted here before about behavioral issues with my now 11 month old female yorkie.

The issues that I am having with her have been ongoing since I got her at about 3 months of age. I am posting because I am now at my wit's end with this dog and I am really about ready to give up on her.

The first issue is potty training. She will pee and poop anywhere, even when I put puppy pads down. If I walk outside and don't take her with me she goes in my room and pees on my bed. I will let her out for a looong time and she comes back in and goes all over the place. Then when I leave her in ANY size crate she pees all over the place and soaks herself in it. She also has a thing about not wanting to poop in the grass, she poops on the porch instead. Also, if she thinks I am going to put her in her crate for the night or even if I so much as look at her the wrong way she pees all over herself or goes somewhere and pees out of spite.

The next issue is the barking and whining. I usually put her in the laundry room at night so she won't soak herself. She whines alllll night even after getting her a bark collar. She has figured out how to manipulate the collar so she can let out this really high pitched yelp.

The last issue is that she eats my daughter's poopy diapers. She will go dig them out of the trash and make an absolute MESS with them. It makes me sooo frustrated that she has to get a diaper of ALL things in the trash.

I don't understand these habits that she has developed and I have no idea what to do about them. She seems like she's just a stupid dog. Can dogs really be mentally retarted? My two year old male yorkie has never been this terrible about anything! Pleeeease help!!!!!!!!!!!

well i can only help with the crying and barking. PLEASE i beg you STOP using the bark collar, your pup is trying to tell you something and you are punishing her for that... Dogs are pack animals... so to put her alone in the laundry room is the opposite of what she wants. She doesnt' have to be in your bed... lol... but get a crate and it put in your room.... so she can see and hear you....

Yorkies arent stupid simply untrained. Maybe you should rehome her since you thnk its okay to use a bark collar and you think she is stupid

oh my, the bark collar sounds cruel to me. MY yorkie loves to talk to me. He is communicating his feelings and wants/needs.
as for the peeing everywhere and stuff, maybe she is doing it for your attention?
I very highly doubt she is stupid or retarded. That seems so cruel and such a harsh way to put it. At only 11mos old and ready to give up on her doesn't seem fair. she is still a puppy!
I hope you are able to do what is right for her in the long run. Maybe rehoming her to someone who has faith in her would be a good idea.

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I have tried putting her in a crate beside the bed and she still whines and yaps the entire night. There is LITERALLY not one moment of silence. I have also tried letting her have run of the upstairs part of the house and she uses the bathroom everywhere and chews everything...even furniture. I can't just let her ruin everything I have because she wants free rein.

I had no choice but to get her a bark collar because my neighbor's were fussing to the landlord about her constant barking. Everyone told me that would fix the problem.

When I first got her, my vet even told me she was stupid and that I would be lucky to even GIVE her away. He said that some dogs are just mentally retarted and she was one of them.

Did your vet say she was retarded because she isnt housetraining? If so he must not know alot about small breeds because they are usually harder to potty train. You need to keep her confined to her crate. Dont give her free roam of the house

:thumbup: IMO that is just mean for such a little one:eek:

No, He simply stated she was stupid for the fact that she pees and poops all over herself and constantly barks for no reason even when she is in or out of the crate, or in or out of the house.

He also stated that because she was CKC registered and not AKC registered, that it was another reason she may be stupid.

It doesn't matter where I keep her or where she is, she barks, pees, and poops all over herself. I have tried crate training.

Please understand everyone I really do love her and pay her lots of attention. I do not mistreat her.

It is just very frustrating that no matter that I try to do to help her, nothing does any good! She is driving me crazy!

Seems that your very frustrated with your pup... and with that being said, maybe you should think about other options for her (i.e. rehoming her or dog training). It doesnt seem that you will have enough patience w/ the pup to teach her right from what she's doing wrong. So, if your not willing to allow someone else to help teach her, than maybe exploring the other option might be best. Please keep in mind the best interest of the pup as well as yourself & family :)

I can tell you are just frustrated. She sounds like a dog that came from a puppymill that has to sit in its own waste all the time and gets used to it. I would keep he crate very clean so she knows the dfference. The registry that she comes from doesnt determine her intelligence. It doesnt make her any less of a dog because shes not AKC.

its like that when you get a pup, what you need most out of all of this is patience, It ain't easy but it'll pay off, your pup is whining cause it doesn't wanna be lonely, after a few days/week they will get used to it,

this may just be the most disturbing thing i have ever heard- for her vet to say she is stupid. that is very unprofessional and i suggest u get a new vet. also, i understand ur frustration. it's not easy juggling a baby and a yorkie, that is not even a question. but dogs can sense ur frustration and irritability and ur puppy is probably acting out based on the vibes u are giving off. Perhaps you should do as chachi recommended and try to find her a home where someone with more time and patience can try to train her to be the yorkie she has the potential to be. good luck with her :]

My gosh, I am SHOCKED! What a terrible post, I understand your frustration but there is no need to speak so horribly about her. She is not stupid or mentally retarded she is a puppy who needs love, care and patience. Perhaps it would be best if you rehomed her to someone who was prepared to put the time and work into training her without using quick fixes.

Not being AKC registered doesn't make her stupid! Pedigrees are about lineage, health testing and producing puppies that meet the breed standard, not intelligence! Sounds to me as if she is seriously stressed by her crate, perhaps she has had bad experiences with it, get rid of it. Puppy proof your home moving things she can eat or chew out of her reach. Take her to go potty as soon as she wakes up, after a play session, after she eats, after she drinks and at least once an hour. When she goes in the right place, gently tell her good girl and give her a treat you know she really loves. When she barks, let her, wait until she is quiet and then say 'quiet' and treat her, do this over and over until she is getting it, eventually you will be able to gently tell her to be quiet and she will be. She will never learn to behave in your house if you don't give her the chance to succeed. Praise the good behavior, ignore the bad.

I guess the question you need to ask yourself is, are you right for this baby? Do you have the time, patience and love to train her? Can you be the owner that she deserves and needs so much?

I"m feeling very sorry for this poor pup sounds like she needs to rehome it you can send it my way .I would never use a shock collar on a pup or any kind of dog just plain out cruel.dont sound like she has the Patience for this poor pup .:mad: :thumbdown :rolleyes:

I'd start at step one. Get a new vet. Next pen her into a small area such as the kitchen or bathroom with some wee wee pads, and let her cry.. She probably knows you'll let her out if she keeps it up long enough.

Good post:thumbup:

:eek: o.m.g what a shame for the poor baby. sounds like everyone has given up on her. what a terrible thing for even the vet to say. yorkies are the most loving clever animals ever. maybe because she hasnt been trained properly and like someone else said might have came from a mill. i know it must be very hard but it sounds like she hasnt had best of starts if she came from a mill and now shes getting called stupid and has a bark collar. i cannot even bear to think how misreble that poor baby must be.:( :( :(

I couldn't agree more Chachi! This thread really upset me. That poor little girl! Puppies take SO much time and attention and with proper training, she could be an amazing little pet. I'd get rid of the bark collar and the negative attitude you have towards her. Remember, babies don't come potty trained...neither do puppies. All she wants is a little attention. My Marty whined all night the first few nights he was in his crate, but he was just fine after that and now sleeps in our bed. I have no problems with his housetraining, barking, or any other negative behaviors. You should seriously consider rehoming her to someone who has the time and patience to train her and give her all of the things a puppy deserves.

i hope your problems stop.

stop using the bark collar, its cruel. but i can help you out with the potty training. my dog is doing the same thing, but not as extreme, when you take her out in the morning , or any time she usually goes to the bathroom during the day ,tie her to a short leash and put mats anywhere she can reach. when she goes to the bathroom praise her , give her a treat, and untie her. when she goes somewhere she's not supposed to go, scold her and put her in her cage. do this repeatedly enough and eventually she'll think ' okay, I'm supposed to go on the mat, not the floor,' soon your problems will be over. but please, PLEASE don't give up on the poor baby. it isn't right.

I am not saying she IS stupid, I am asking if it is possible for a dog to be untrainable. I have a neighbor that got her sister and she got rid of her after just a few months because she was not able to get her to go potty outside at ALL. Do you think she will EVER learn? She will be a year old on the 25th and it is still like having a brand new puppy with the way she behaves.

She barked the WHOLE night last night. My husband has to get a full night of rest because he works 13 hour days. He woke up screaming at me AND the dog for him not being able to sleep all night. I eventually let her out of the laundry room and she tore stuff up and peed and pooped everywhere. This is an EVERY night ordeal. I put puppy pads down and she will occasionally use them, but she usually just uses the bathroom wherever she pleases. I have tried diapers and she just gets them off even with the panties over them. I spend HALF of my day cleaning up pee. Maybe she has a bladder control problem???

I really don't know what to do. I need some encouragement here because I don't want to give up on her, but I also don't want her to be this way forever and ruin everything in my home, including my marriage. Does it sound like maybe she needs a home where she can be an outdoor dog? She is not a small yorkie, she weighs 10 pounds, so I think outdoors could be an option for her. Any help would be great.

Yorkies have hair not fur so even large ones cant be kept outside all the time. Is there a room you can confine her in that your Husband wont hear her bark. She will bark as long as she knows you will let her out if she does so. She needs to be confined and if she uses the pad at all maybe thats the way you should train her.

First, your dog is obviously not untrainable because her behavior IS how you have inadvertently trained her to act.

Second, a Yorkie can never be an outdoor dog. They are very sensitive to temperatures. If the outside heat or cold would kill you, it will kill them.

Your vet said she is mentally retarded and stupid because she was CKC? That really doesn't sound like something a vet would say.

I just finished reading your other posts regarding this same issue and I can see that you are very frustrated. Unfortunately, I think that using the bark collar has probably made your problem worse. Since you don't want to rehome her, I think your only other option is to hire a trainer who will help her to unlearn these bad behaviors.

And regarding the dirty diapers, it's a dog's instinct. You should put them somewhere or into something that she can't get into.

The laundry room is the farthest room away from our room and he can hear her even with the doors closed. I can pretty much ignore it because I am a heavier sleeper then he is. I have suggested that he needs to take sleep aids but he won't do that :-P Also, when I put her in the laundry room, she pees right next to the washer so that runs all up underneath.

I have heard that puppy pads will keep them from going outside at all and I don't want that. I want her to be like my other yorkie and go outside where she is meant to go. It seems as if she would be catching on a little sooner by following his lead.

Even when I took her and had her boarded while I went on vacation, the trainer had problems had trouble getting her to go outside. She would always pee on her bed.

Yes, my vet said the reason my other dog is smarter than her is because he is AKC and she is CKC. He said CKC dogs are not purebred and they can have anything in their bloodline. Everyone that I have told that has been shocked that my vet would say that too.

I just don't understand because I don't see many people on here having these problems with a puppy this old.

I sincerly think its your vet that is stupid . Registration have nothing to do with it . Does he obtain his diploma in a crackerjack box ?

i think rehoming her is the best option

Here we go again
 

So...

I let her have roam of the upstairs last night so we could sleep...

The end results were 7 spots of pee and 5 piles of poo. I just don't think EXCESS is NORMAL.

I am sorry for your problems and feel awful for her.First thing no collar any more STOP using it.
Keep her in an x-pen with pee pads and take her out on a regular basis every day same time.
Get her into obediance classes or take her to a trainer.
Spend time with her grooming teaching tricks and just lap sitting.
Her behavioral issues sound like she did not come from a good place.But it can be broken with lots of TIME and PATIENCE on your part.
Do you have a place too keep the x-pen that is not on carpet,cleaning up a floor that is not carpet will make you feel a bit better to just wipe it up and then sanitize, will not be such a big job every time for you?
Keep her bedding very clean also so she learns to like it and will not pee and poop where she sleeps.I wash dog bedding ALL the time.
Have you tried to let her sleep with you? Maybe she will be quiet and not have to go potty all night long.
Makes me wonder if she is nervous also being she has to go potty so much at night?
Has she been checked for bladder infection and parasites?
Time and patience and consistancy should start to change her habits.If all fails and you cannot handle it anymore rehome her.