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Are Yorkies Stubborn With Training?? [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!!!! :) |
Yorkies are a bit hard to train. If he seems to rather go outside then maybe stick with that. Not all dogs like the pads when they like to go outside. I don't do the pads I train for outside. So sometimes I have to go out in monster rain storms because Zoey won't go on that pee pad I put for her to spare her the rain storm. |
Stubborn is the right word, but with loads of patience and love you can get there!!! Good luck with everything |
My Essie is the same way. I live in an apartment and for the time being (untill our house is finished in early September) I have to keep her hidden. So I can not take her outside to potty, She WILL NOT go on peepads. I have an x-pen set up now and she still WILL NOT go in the xpen, but as soon as I let her out of there she will run and find a place to go potty on my floor. I dont understand it. But when we go to my mothers house she potty's outside insted of in the house. |
Stubborn is exactly what they are!! My yorkie is almost three and I think she might be potty trained now almost perfectly. |
I'm too having a terrible time I have a 5mo old and he now is peeing on my daughters bed. He looks right at you while he's doing it.:( They are much harder to train then any other breed I have owned. I love him with all my heart,but it's not all the time that he does this. Everytime I think he's got it down,he goes in the house. Be patient. They are still babies and does take consitant,repetitive constant attention. My fourteen year old is home for the summer and in between her plans, I made her in charge of training him and I'll get her a PRIZE for training him,at the end of the summer. LOL .I hope she can do it. I also just found out my hours are being cut....so I too will have more time with him. Do your beast and by the way ....WELCOME TO YT!!!!!!:D |
I must have "special" yorkies, because I think both of mine are super easy to train. Taz was 10 mos old when I got him and he only knew sit and shake. (Occasionally) I started "clicker" training him and he picks things up really quickly. Now he sits, lays down, shakes, high five, rings the bell to go out (still working on that, but he now rings the bell himself), stay, sit up and now sit up and turn around. (Dance). Gabby is 14 mos old and really didn't know any commands. She now sits, lays down and stays. She is picking up quickly because of Taz though. |
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Yorkies in general are just so stubborn! Trust me I know I have trained dogs and now just train specifically Yorkies and they are difficult to train. After trial and error I have pretty much have it down to a science now though and my Yorkies always go on their potty pad or in the yard when I walk them. It does take a bit of patience but every Yorkie will eventually cooperate and learn to use the right restroom areas with the proper training. The website in my signature is really an awesome guide for Yorkies. It goes into specifics which I know other training guides out there really are just fluff. Hope this helps and goodluck! |
A big YES for the stubborn part, I sent Chewy away for a month to a boarding training school and they just managed to teach him to lie down and not pull on the leash, all the other neat stuff he was supposed to learn never happened LOL - I guess he just decided to get back at me for sending him away. As for being house trained, they all are OK if we're home, but when they are left alone, it's everybody for himself - UGH...and where ever they please, sometimes it can be frustrating:mad: I then started with the belly bands when we got out and it's been much better, sure helped a lot:) |
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In one word: YES. I really think they are hard to train. |
It seems when they are smaller they are really easy and then you have to watch they will back slide and its harder. Its all worth it in the long run. |
Did you say " Are yorkies hard to train? No , they trained me very well !! LOL :rolleyes: |
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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:rolleyes: |
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! |
They sure are stubborn. Mine can go or a nice long walk, and then come inside and pee. Ugh! |
Gender 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 ? |
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. |
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 ? |
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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. |
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 ? |
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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.:aimeeyork:aimeeyork:aimeeyork |
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2 year old shih tzu urinated on my tile floor How do I get the oder off of my tile floor when I have reason to believe that it may have penetrated the grout?:confused: |
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