pee/poo training

[Wabbit]

I can sympathize my little Daizy Mae is almost 9 months...and we're not 100%potty trained yet!! She tends to have 2 accidents a day...your going to laugh but me and my sister devised a little plan since they tinkle so little...we went to a thrift store and bought a bunch of baby onesies size 0-3 months..since our yorkies are only 5 lbs each. We cut a tiny hole in them for their tails!!! Its absolutely hilarious...the pooches don't mind them...they actually help keep them warm and if there is a little accident...we just simply change them!!! We are going to keep using them even after they're 100% trained. My sisters yorkie hates to wet in them....so she has learned to hold it pretty well...and I'm also taking Daizy out more often.. I also read that you need to take them out right after they wake up...from a nap or in the a.m. after they chew on their toys, right after they play hard and ofcourse right after they eat. I've been more observant and today we only had ONE accident! Yay...so we'll see what tommorrow brings! Good luck to us all!! lol

[Babz]

My Mocha just turned 6 months, and I think that clock thing might be sort of true O_O
It has been 2 days since she had an accident in my room, JOY OH JOY (bless you puppy pee gods).

I fenced her in with her bed, toys, water and pad in a frameholder. I made her space so there's not way she would have an accident. I scatter her toys everywhere in her "room", just pack everything in tightly so there's no space between the pads and other things she will not pee in. Works GREAT! Add to it that I'm the most hopeless housebreaker ever lived. But even fenced in, whenever I catch her pee-ing or pooping on her pad, I give her a treat. THAT worked so well she has taken to waking me up right after she pees in the morning to 1. give her treat and 2. get her breakfast

Now, she only lets me know when she has gone pooping on the pad, not the pee anymore. And she holds it in nicely! Whenever she's on my bed, before when she wants to pee she just looks at me and goes, very little warning. But now, she gets very panicked and I think that's letting me know she's not a barker, so I don't expect her to tell me by barking. After her baths, when I blowdry her and she gets agitated, I let her go and she RUNS straight to the pad. I was so happy! Also (and I don't know if this is an upside or downside) when we take her go running, she does not pee until she gets in the house. She will run up the stairs and just barged into my room and go pee.

Please, please, if taking them out every 30-45 minutes is too bothersome for you, try the fenced in with the pad thing. I did it for 2 months, and now I can leave Mocha unguarded. I am the most hopeless, impatient, and the biggest quitter ever lived, but if I can do it, so can you! It might look a bit boring for the pups to live fenced in for the first few months 20 hours a day, but leave toys and maybe some snacks (carrots, bits of animal cookies) and water and they'll do fine. It's for their, and your own good.

Right now, I do not believe in Yorkies being notorious to housebreak. I think it just takes a little consistency.

Just a little sharing amongst dog owners.

[bilbao]

i am just using 3 little jingle bells on a rope and for the past few days of me ringing the bells my dogs just looked at me like they had no idea what i was doing or why i was ringing the bells. but today i the bells just started randomly ringing out of controll so i walked to the door and sure enough the pups were sitting there waiting to go out. that took about 5 days of 45 minutes every day to get them to finally register that they can ring them when they want to go out. it was very tedious but i am happy to say it has worked at least once today and i hope it will just continut to work and stick in their brains. best of luck

[Wabbit]

That jingle bell idea is darling!!! I would die if I heard my pooch ringing the bells on their own!!!

[Smarty Bones]

Originally Posted by Babz

My Mocha just turned 6 months, and I think that clock thing might be sort of true O_O
It has been 2 days since she had an accident in my room, JOY OH JOY (bless you puppy pee gods).

I fenced her in with her bed, toys, water and pad in a frameholder. I made her space so there's not way she would have an accident. I scatter her toys everywhere in her "room", just pack everything in tightly so there's no space between the pads and other things she will not pee in. Works GREAT! Add to it that I'm the most hopeless housebreaker ever lived. But even fenced in, whenever I catch her pee-ing or pooping on her pad, I give her a treat. THAT worked so well she has taken to waking me up right after she pees in the morning to 1. give her treat and 2. get her breakfast

Now, she only lets me know when she has gone pooping on the pad, not the pee anymore. And she holds it in nicely! Whenever she's on my bed, before when she wants to pee she just looks at me and goes, very little warning. But now, she gets very panicked and I think that's letting me know she's not a barker, so I don't expect her to tell me by barking. After her baths, when I blowdry her and she gets agitated, I let her go and she RUNS straight to the pad. I was so happy! Also (and I don't know if this is an upside or downside) when we take her go running, she does not pee until she gets in the house. She will run up the stairs and just barged into my room and go pee.

Please, please, if taking them out every 30-45 minutes is too bothersome for you, try the fenced in with the pad thing. I did it for 2 months, and now I can leave Mocha unguarded. I am the most hopeless, impatient, and the biggest quitter ever lived, but if I can do it, so can you! It might look a bit boring for the pups to live fenced in for the first few months 20 hours a day, but leave toys and maybe some snacks (carrots, bits of animal cookies) and water and they'll do fine. It's for their, and your own good.

Right now, I do not believe in Yorkies being notorious to housebreak. I think it just takes a little consistency.

Just a little sharing amongst dog owners.

Sounds like a great plan...Any chance you have a picture of her little "room"?

[Babz]

Originally Posted by Smarty Bones

Sounds like a great plan...Any chance you have a picture of her little "room"?

There you go. Just took these pics. You can even see the little patch where she has gone potty just a few moments ago Any questions just ask. I don't know much, but I know what works for my babies

[Ang]

MacAllan is doing great with house training, he is 8 months old, and very smart. He is a Yorkie/Chapanese Chin Spaniel cross- "Jarkie" Mac has peed in the house once in 10 weeks, but has twice found a sneaky, carpeted corner and left a poop-bomb. I put him in his crate area- crate open and a latticed 3'x3' roaming area surrounds it, so he can play, when I am at work. He holds for over 9 hours and longer over night. Mac does not bark to go out, but sometimes goes to the patio door and gives you the look, I am very routined with him. He goes out immediatly when I get him in the morning, immediatly when I come home from work and about a half an hour after I observe him at the food dish. I also always let him out when we come back from anywhere. This tells him you are home and outside is where we potty! When he peed on a carpet, I cleaned it up and scolded him (mad face/stern look)and put him out. I also put a little pillow and his extra blanket over the area when it dried, in hopes he'd see it as another bed area. This worked so far! But, he then found the downstairs laundry room carpet and has twice pooped there. Again I followed the same routine, minus the bed...now I watch him carefully and when he goes to the basement door I call out UH! UH! and he does not go downstairs. I am nervous that this will keep occuring, he has twice done this at his doggie daycare mommies house, (whom he adores too!) when I work a longer day! How can I get him to indicate "I need to go outside." He doesn't bark or whine, and he is so good, you easily forget he is around? Can anyone tell me about the bell at the door routine and what kind of bell I need? Thanks for any advice in advance...I just love this little guy and want to be able to trust him! He learns new routines by the second or third time he does them.