Are Yorkies Stubborn With Training??

[LaurenF]

Thank you for all your help!!! I am willing to try anything...like I said he just learned Lay Down after a year of trying! I am so proud of him...now if he only can learn the rest

[Deegan's mom]

Stubborn is an understatement! I was begining to think the same way you are (about him being slow with Deegan - lol). I think it was between a year and a half and two years before I could officially say Deeg's was completely housebroken. Takes a long time and alot of patience - but it will happen. Good luck!

[Yorkiekids]

They sure are stubborn. Mine can go or a nice long walk, and then come inside and pee. Ugh!

[LadyMadonna51]

I was just wondering if any of you think gender has anything to do with successful housetraining ? Are males any harder to train than females ?

[Julie1760]

I must have gotten lucky with Myah...she is 7 months old now and hasn't had any accidents for a couple months. She wouldn't use potty pads consistantly...so we just gave up on them and have her go outside. She does wonderful and even rings the bell by the door to go out and if we don't hear it, she will come and whine by us and run to the door. Maybe it is a gender thing, I can't say, I've only had girl dogs.

[LadyMadonna51]

I have only had females too ( German shepherds) and both trained at 10 weeks old . My little Wiz is a male and he is pretty good 85% trained @ 3 months old ...just that I have heard people say that male yorkies cannot be housetrained and wondering if that is fact or fallacy ?

[upindust]

Originally Posted by LaurenF

[F]My little Yorkie, Marley, is almost a year and a half. I live in an apartment and I feel I have been consistent in training him but he still doesnt get pee pads. I walk him twice a day (and he does good) but when I am in the house with him, he wont go to the pee pad by himself. Is this normal? Are yorkies just stubborn or is mine a little slow? Will I have to tell him to go potty every 30 min (and watch to make sure he does) for the rest of his life? Also, good news...I have been trying and trying to get him to "lay down" for almost a year now and last night he finally did it!!!!

Teddy only used a peepad once(we have the grass scented ones. the pug owner downstairs puts newspaper on top of her peepads. That's the only way her pug will use them. I just take teddy out every couple hours to pee(I don't give him an unlimited amount of water because he ALWAYS drinks up every bit of it then throws up if I do that). Reward with Treats and say good potty. Also make sure the peepad isn't where they eat and sleep.

[upindust]

Originally Posted by LadyMadonna51

I have only had females too ( German shepherds) and both trained at 10 weeks old . My little Wiz is a male and he is pretty good 85% trained @ 3 months old ...just that I have heard people say that male yorkies cannot be housetrained and wondering if that is fact or fallacy ?

Teddy is a male and he used the peepad once(we don't have them on the floor anymore). He used it when we were gone too!. I don't let him pee on objects I'm trying to keep him with the puppysquat.

[JeanieK]

Yes to the stubborn, but not defiant. If they aren't learning then you are not making yourself understood.

Don't keep repeating what you are doing and expecting different results. If what you are doing, is not working, than you need to try something else.

It is never too late to go back to the basics, such as keeping them confined to a small area when you are not able to supervise them.

When confining to an Xpen it might be necessary to make some sort of divider in it to partion off a potty area as they might not want to soil their living quarters.

Some people have had success with weekend bootcamp. Where you keep your yorkie on a leash and tied to you all weekend.

Or you could try crate training.

[LadyMadonna51]

I have had great success in crate training puppies and I am doing it with Wiz as well . He has slept from 10 at night to 6 & 7 am without a mess or a peep out of him since he was 8 weeks old . I also have cordoned off the kitchen so I can keep an eye on him . When I cannot watch him , he is kenneled . A loose puppy is a puppy in trouble .. I read that once . I am having a lot of success with him but a woman told me that males will never housetrain ... do I just have a good male or is it my training methods ?

[upindust]

Originally Posted by LaurenF

Thank you for all your help!!! I am willing to try anything...like I said he just learned Lay Down after a year of trying! I am so proud of him...now if he only can learn the rest

laydown is easy to train.. at least for teddy all we did was angle our hand and have a treat behind the thumb and he would also lay down to try to see what was behind our hand.. try doing crawl.. we taught that by doing a claw with our hand and moving it towards the yorkie and slowly clawing away from him.. he took to it right away and we told him good boy everytime he crawled alittle.. now he does it with us just making the hand

[christy2bz]

Is there someone out there that knows how to train the pups to use a bell? I have heard of this and I need to know everything step by step.

[upindust]

Originally Posted by christy2bz

Is there someone out there that knows how to train the pups to use a bell? I have heard of this and I need to know everything step by step.

well I read about it and it says to ring the bell everytime you take them outside to go potty and eventually they start doing that. With me teddy tells me when he wants to go out and while training him everytime he went potty i would give him half a treat(depending on the size)

[vegasrush]

Originally Posted by christy2bz

Is there someone out there that knows how to train the pups to use a bell? I have heard of this and I need to know everything step by step.

We use a service bell (desk bell). The other poster is right, every time you go "outside", you pick them up and ring the bell with their paw and say "outside". At first Taz was afraid of it, but within 2 wks he actually rang it himself and we started "treating" him. In another day he went up and rang it all by himself when he had to go out. He isn't quite 100% yet, but just about there. He will still come up to me and scratch occassionally, then I ask him if he has to go "outside", he has to ring the bell.

[rklemm]

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