Potty training backsliding!
 

Cleo, Joe, and Lola have been with us for a long time. They have been well housebroken. Izzy came to us, and caught on right away, almost immediate. Now Diesel, he's been having lots of accidents. I blame myself because I dont force him to go out with the other dogs everytime, because its pretty cold here. That changed now, because of what started happening. Over the past 3 days Diesel has pooped in the bathroom almost everytime he has had to go. I appreciate he is pooping on the hard floor instead of the carpet, and I understand thats where the people poop, but still, its gotta stop. Izzy has pooped twice in front of our door to go out to the deck. Once again, its nice its on the wood floor, easy clean up, but come on. THEN JOE, of ALL of my dogs, JOE, pee'd right in front of us, in the livingroom yesterday! AND we believe it was him that went down to the basement, and pooped ON my youngest sons bed. WHAT??? I cannot handle that at all. I just got the last of all the bedding done, and I feel terrible, but they have all been crated all day. I never crate my dogs other than bedtime or if I am going to be gone for some time. I am a stay at home mom, so they are not used to this at all. They are pouting terrible, but I dont know what else to do at this point. They all have excepted the newcomers. They all play and get along great. I just dont understand this and I dont know how to handle it. After housebreaking the first 3 dogs almost effortlessly, I never ever have forseen this as an issue.
What do I do?? :confused:

Considering Im having housebreaking issues as well, I dont have the greatest advise for ya'... Just wanted to say be patient and good luck :)

Tucker is totally backsliding since he was neutured. He's gone from having alot of run of the house to being crated or in his xpen again. I don't know what to do either.

Hey Group...we Furgie and I too are having a back sliding monment, umm moments. It started last few week and is getting worse. Just a few minuets ago she pooped right in front of me..*eek* whats wrong....why? She has been pottying on her pad for the last 2 months. Now not!

Can someone explain please???? I don't understand.

I hope someone can help because I am having the same exact problem, my archie is 6 months old and always peed and pooped on the pad until 3 days ago since he started pooing in the middle of the kitchen. I usually put in back in the playpen after each accident (and he does fine in there) but as soon as I let him loose in the gated kitchen he starts again. This is soo frustrating since he had never had a problem with the poop since day one:confused:

I am having the exact same problem. My little girl was a 100% potty trained and would never go pee or poop anywhere except her mat. She is 9 months old and a couple of weeks ago starting pooping in the living room. Now, she does not poop any where except the living room. We tried the boundary spray from petsmart and that is of no help either. She went poop there about 30 minutes after we sprayed. Now what???

Furgie is 6 months old! Are we in our teen already? Stubborn pups! You gotta love'em to keep'em!

Considering Im having housebreaking issues as well, I dont have the greatest advise for ya'... Just wanted to say be patient and good luck


Me too!!!:rolleyes:

Tucker too!
 

He never pottied in the house. He had a doggie door to the balcony where there is grass and was perfect with that. However, then it got cold and I had to close up the doggie door for fear of freezing. So then I did the pads. He uses them just fine, but every once in a while I find poop in the hall, etc. Also he has started to mark on things. But this I think is a marking problem, cause he lifts his leg, and when he goes on the pad he squats. Still, I'm confused because of the pooop.

Hopefully the neutering will help . . . :confused:

Holy cow, its an epidemic!
 

I too am having this problem just the last few weeks with Teddy. He's almost 11 months old, and I can walk him outside till my hands turn blue (its cold here too) and 9 out of 10 times he won't go until we come back in.:confused: ... Never had a problem before, he was a BREEZE to potty train (the first time). Are there aliens out there forcing our furbabies to poop in the house or what ??????

My teapot, Chunk is doing the same thing. He goes on the pad about 80% of the time. My husband very patiently will ask me " when will he be totally potty trained." Thank the Lord my hubby loves our little, (big), Chunk. Our 3 other dogs, (not yorkies), are completely trained they go outside when they have to go. Sometimes Chunk will join them out there. Oh well, God is so patient with us I guess we can do the same for our babies.

A righteous man regards the life of his animal... Proverbs 12:10

Wow I never read that scripture before. Thanks for sharing it.

Me too
 

Reggie is pottying inside and Sophie pottys outside when she feels like it. All of us are having the same problem and no one seems to have a solution.

Can anyone HELP US PLEASE?

Thank you!:eek:

Reggie's Mom I will tell you this right now Furgie is doing well but that is right now...I am sooo glad for the good days!!! However I put her back in our bed cause zshe is scared by herself. But she went to the foot of our bed and peed...so out of the bed again...I'm trying!

I just wish you the best and one other thing always talk real sweet and dance around and they will comply much better!

You can add us to the ranks.....2 weeks ago Ozzy started peeing on the floor after being 99% pad trained. He's 5 months old. I have no idea why either. I can't go one day without a pee accident. The poo well he still hits the pad for that so I have something to be grateful for. :confused:

We are back to Potty 101 but I still can't catch him all the time as he will go hide and pee! I keep saying this too shall pass...this too shall pass..

I'm waiting for the Backsliding Potty Club to form. I bet it will be the biggest club on YT! :p

Long live the queen!
 

Oh that is a good one and little miss drama queen here will be the head honcho!

Oh my this worries me..I do not have my yorkie yet and I am a clean freak..A breeder is talking me into a male pup cause she believes they are sweeter and easier to train( her personal opinion) I have owned males in the past and had some marking problems. This is why I wanted a female this time around..But it sounds like this is a breed behavioral thing..I love animals but I love having a clean smelling home too..yikes should I reconsider? love the proverb 12:10...

Dogs do have a dog sent like human have a human sent. I have never had a male but I believe I would get what I wanted.

I want a yorkie....one that knows not to backslide...male or female.

Yorkies can be housebroken but it won't be in a few weeks. It takes time..sometimes a lot of time and even more patience for either sex. If you can't handle the thought of accidents then I would re-think any puppy..but especially a yorkie. I have to say even with the backsliding I would never have any other breed of dog. My Ozzy is amazing in so many ways and no dog or breed is perfect...and of course there is always Nature's Miracle :) !

Archie did the same thing! He did very well with the pad until he decided when he was 6 months old that he was old enough to mark up the whole house. Very frusterating because we know he can hold it with no problem but he just occasionally wants to drizzle everywhere. We watch him very very closely!

But yea .... we don't know what happened either. We kind of gave up on training him with the pad. He needs to go out 3+ times a day and still be watched VERY CLOSELY! We are thinking of investing in a belly band soon.

I have had many breeds of dogs over the last 2o sum yrs..and I realize puppies have accidents and I am not new at housetraing a puppy..What I am talking about is the bad habit of Marking territories. Alot of it is intinct and sometimes it is just behavioral. There just seems to be an issue with this breed. Don't get me wrong I love the breed..and I know this can happen with a lot of breeds or toy dogs I just don't want to be cleaning up after a 5 yr old dog that just refuses to go in the proper place. I am just suprised at the amount of responses to this thread about their dogs backslidng I was hoping it would be less. I will think seriously about it though

ckuz13 for me it was learning this breed. I had to learn to handle them differently than I did my schnauzers. Which by the way learnt to potty before they were able to jump up on a couch. I had to be more sweeter, not too demanding...not to gruff in my voice is what I am trying to say. Lots of rewarding.

I wish you the best!!

Thank you..I think having three males in my family can be challenging for male dogs..sometimes the scent of human male hormone can send a message to male dogs to mark as if to say this belongs to me..so we have alot of testosterone going on around here already..its interesting. Funny thing happened last year, My husband and I went to look at some yorkie pups and the Dad of the pups came up to my husband and peed on his shoe. And all the female dogs in the home all sat near my husband on the couch as if they were guarding him..and they licked him the entire time we were there. So I often wonder what vibe is my husband giving off to these lil guys and gals.

see *** how cute these little ones are...one thing I have learn is that they are soooo much more than their mistakes....that being said...I am not going to allow a dog to urinatre where ever...got be the boss just nice about it.

no luck potty training
 

my 5 month old goes outside some days perfect, and sits down and i can tell she needs to go outside, then the next day she goes outside comes in and goes potty inside. She always tells me at night when i'm sleeping when she needs to go out, but not usually during the day.