pee/poo training
 

Hello There!

I am new at this site and was hoping to find some help with all you yorkie lovers. I have 2 yorkies Coco and Cody (female and male). My Cody is very good, he might be a little sucky and not the dominant one but very obedient. He will go pee/poo on the pad consistently (unless he is constipated and jumps off the pad too soon and poo lands off the pad). Coco on the other hand doesn't like to go on the pad. She might go on the pad to pee but not to poo and you can always tell she did something wrong because of the look she gives you. I take them outside to do their business too but sometimes if they do it at night I have no control. I take them to the mud room to sleep (can't risk leaving them in the living room as they are wonderful chewers and chew some of my dry wall - is this preventable too?), but she is worse down there. She just do it anywhere she goes and when they wake up and tries to wake us up they start jumping up and down (you get the idea where and what they jumping up and down on, I guess not intentionally for them...but it's just in the way I guess). This gives me a lot of frustration trying to get ready for work and you have to clean up their mess and them. Anyways, is there any kind of training I can do so she can go to the pad. Winter is fast approaching and it is hard for them to go outside when there is 5 feet of snow. Coco seems to be doing it when she was younger and for some reason she just totallyi stopped doing it (going to the pad). She is the smarter one of the too and follow commands and recognizes toys, etc but I am not sure why she can't follow the pad training. Also, she whines a lot which gets Cody barking (maybe telling her to shut up) and wakes up at 4 in the morning.....Help and thank you.

potty
 

Hello fellow canadian - I am down in colorado with my now 6 mos old yorkie. She is such a wimp that she shivers on the cool fall days. I can't imagine her in snow. I have been knitting sweaters like crazy. Lily still will poop anywhere if given the chance although if shes in her confined area she goes in a litter box with a peepee pad in it. This has really seemed to work. Her area though is only about 3 ft by 3 ft, with a crate, the litter box and her food and water dishes. If we are playing fetch in the living room however she will just stop and poop in a second........sigh........feeling frustrated too. Also she doesn't let me know to go outside at all- I just take her at least every two hours and often she goes and gets a treat but is she learning????

i am no expert yorkie trainer however what worked for me was...keeping some of their urine on the pad at all times. They have that simple solution spray that attracts them to the pad but I find putting the urine from the old pad to the new one works very well.

my yorkie just turned 12 weeks old and i would say he is 95% potty trained, still a chewer but potty trained.

also, giving them a treat after they use the pad works wonders also. i use nutrical as a treat b/c he loves it so much. giving them a 'real' treat and he's put on too much weight. you could also use a piece of kibble as a treat.

using nature's miracle works wonders at cleaning up the odor of old urine on carpet.

House breaking
 

I just got a yorkie that's 3 yrs old, and has never been house broken. I take her out every 2-3 hrs. She always pees outside, and time I bring her in she poops. Somebody help!

Kimber44, when she poops in the middle of the floor while playing, do you stop what you're doing to scold her and immediately take her outside? Treating her when she goes outside is only half the process. Now that she's not a tiny baby anymore, she needs the negative reinforcement to--treat when I go where I'm supposed to, mad mommy when I go where I'm not supposed to! Taking her out immediately shows her where she should have done that. I don't do outside training, but when mine pottied off her piddle pad, she got scolded (No, ma'am, Bad, bad dog! The is where we potty...) and put on her pad. And I'd make her stay there for a few minutes. She'd lay down on it, but I made her stay there so she'd know I was serious. To be honest, that didn't work super-well for me. I had to resort to putting her nose down almost to touching her pee or poop give her a little spanking saying all the things I mentioned above (I'm talking little...like I love pat her with the same force and she likes that, but since she was being scolded at the same time, she knew it was baaaaad!), and then take her to her pad. That was what did it for her. It took several of those, but I'd say we're around 98-99% at least and she's 4 1/2 mo. old. We didn't start the negative reinforcement until she was around 12 wks., and didn't start really getting serious until she was ~15 wks. I'd say her only accidents now really, are when she's got paws on the pad, but is hanging over the edge, or sometimes poop is off the pad when we wake up in the morning--we know she plays with it and even eats it (YUCK-O!!! We're getting a pill to try and stop that.) so we're not sure if she pooped of the pad, or more likely played with it until it wasn't on the pad anymore. (We started working with her with only positive reinforcement from day one when she was 9 wks. old and just gradually got more strict with it as she got older and was capable of more.) Your 6 mo. old babies are capable of going where they're supposed to. I know lots of people struggle with potty training their Yorkies, and I've only had the one experience, but doing what I did worked for Bella. Just sharing what worked for us....

need help
 

A lady at petsmart sad that uesing a pee pad it is traning her to pee in the house but I crat my puppy in the dayfor 8 hours so I leave a little blanket and just alittle bit of water and toys for hey I leave a kong in there with her.

Lexi and housebreaking
 

I know where you guys are coming from. I, too, am having a housebreaking problem. My 12 week old does the same thing. She sometimes will pee on the pad, but never poops on it. She usually will only pee on a smooth floor, no carpet, but sometimes cannot hold it. I take her outside every hour, but she just runs around n doesn't want to use it. Whenever she starts sniffing around I take her too, but that still doesn't works, she just waits until she comes back in and uses it. I feel like I am fighting an unbeatable battle!

I think maybe this is Daisy`s problem she used to go to pad to pee almost 95% of the time and now she suddenly stoped, she even right comes in front of me, looks just in my face, and do it, I pick her up put in the pad, and she lays down, at least she is 100% pooping in the pad, but I don`t know what else to do!!!.

Yes I am definately having the same problem with my Dottie. She goes every where in the house and she uses the pad when she feels like it. It's very frustrating, she has only pood outside 3 times, and I've had her for about a month. I really need help!!!

same old stuff
 

I am new to this site but have used it for reference many times so I decided to just join. I have two dogs one is a yorkie/ toy poodle and her name is Trixi and I have a yorkie that is named tug. when we first got trixi she hadn't been house trained at all not even a little start. we were constantly picking up poop and cleaning up pee. we got so frustrated with it after two months of it we actually put her up for sale. my wife just couldnt take it any more. we have some people across the street from us that has a s**t-zu and they kept telling us "just be patient she will get it. it takes until they are about six months old for them to really register what they need to be doing." and i tell you what no kidding it was like 6 months on the dot she never went inside again. now with my little yorkie... Tug oh little Tug. he is driving me nuts with that he is just now about six months old and is still pooping in the house. he was peeing in the house until we got some belly bands for him (great idea) he wears that all day while he is in the house and we take it off him as he runs out the door to go out. I thought we had finally won the battle a couple of weeks ago i was on the couch and i heard him give a little bark (which neither of them ever do) so i looked and he was sitting by the back door. i asked myself is it so?... sure enough he went out and did his thing and came back in. i was so happy i was doing jumping jacks. then the next thing i knew was our 2 year old boy came walking in the room saying "poop poop poop" holding a poop from tug. i was so upset with that little bugger. he was on the right track and then just threw it all away. now its not like he doesnt know that going inside is a bad thing. every time he does you know it because he is nowhere to be found and then when you do find him he just runs away and hides again like he is ashamed. we let them out every couple hours to go so i dont know what his problem is. i do the positive reinforcement when he goes outside. but it just seems like sometimes it sticks and other times it doesnt. its getting quite frustrating any ideas help

thanks

potty training
 

I talked to the vet who has helped by advising me to put Lily on a strict feeding schedule so I can figure out when she needs to poop. She gets her food for 15 minutes , no more, at 7,2 and 7. I'm asking tomorrow if I can go down to twice a day. She is gaining weight fine (getting a chunky belly, so cute) and since I got stricter with this we have not had a poop in the house for over a week. So feed, then exercise 30-40 minutes later and she poops. Good luck everyone, this is really not easy with these little ones. Kimberly

UGH Bowie thinks hes allowed to poo anywhere in the house, however he does great on the pad when he has to peepee, Well, except when he is half asleepa nd pees half on pad half off.

funny story related
 

Lily comes to the office with me as I am a psychologist (and my own boss). Yesterday I got busy and didn't get her outside between sessions for 3 hours. She PEED on my clipboard pad of paper - oops it was the closest thing to a wee wee pad in the room. I had a genogram , notes, and a wet spot as I picked it up off the floor.

i started bell training yesterday. taking the dogs out every 45 minutes gets pretty old but by the 3rd time going out we walked to the door, i showed them the bells, i gave them a little jingle, we went out i simply said "go potty", both of my pups at the same time went potty and came over for a good dog and a treat, then we went back inside. sense starting that not a single accident. i just hope it holds throughout today.

bells
 

What kind of bell are you using? I put little jingle bells on the door but its not working. ie. she has no idea to ring them yet.

potty training
 

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
:bravo:

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 :D

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. :D

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. :)

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

re: jingle bells
 

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

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 :D Any questions just ask. I don't know much, but I know what works for my babies :)

Please tell me more about bell training?
 

MacAllan :aimeeyorkis doing great with house training, he is 8 months old, and very smart:bravo:. 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, :eek:I am very routined with him.:clock: 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:angry:)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!):D when I work a longer day! How can I get him to indicate "I need to go :woof:outside." He doesn't bark or whine:rbyorkie:, and he is so good, you easily forget he is around? Can anyone tell me about the bell at the door routine :animal37and 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!:animal-pa He learns new routines by the second or third time he does them.