I've created a monster!
 

I have created a monster...I mean, from the very beginning, we have played with the lil one by waving our hand underneath a blanket or afghan and then letting them find it and bite on it. Can you see where this is going?? How do I stop this?

10 month old potty's in crate
 

I got a puppy from a women who got him from a pet store. We will not sto using the bathroom in the house and in his crate. Please help if not I have to find him a new home.

Hello!! Welcome to YT. I am sorry that your little pup is having a hard time. Here are a few things to consider.

1) Is the crate too big? He/she should only have enough room to turn around and lie down...only enough room for his/her body to fit. We had to get a divider and could not leave ANYTHING in there (even a towel or blanket would get peed on and buried).

2) Read this thread and others about potty training..it will help. You can find out how to use a schedule. etc. My Max is completely potty trained at 6 months.

3) If you are ready to give up on your puppy already, do you think that you are ready for the responsibility of taking care of him or her for a long time (Yorkies-15-16 yr. life expectancy) ?

Good luck sweety!

Hey again, I wanted to add that Max did really well when we gave him treat for going potty in the yard and we took him to the same place every time. Over time, we have been able to fade the reinforcement and he no longer needs a treat. Good luck!

My dog is going on 2 and shes potty trained although she will have accidents from time to time

puppy mill rescue
 

hello -
we adopted a 6yr old female rescued from a mill. We are working with her on several issues,but not sure about the house training. From everything I've read we are doing the right things, but she isn't following the rules. :D It seems she has no issues about eliminating in her kennel. I've bought the smallest kennel I can find, but she will still occasionally pee while inside, even if she were just outside previously and only in the kennel a short time. She is really sweet and gentle, but we are worried that this isn't correctable. She doesn't seem to connect the "good" outside with praise and treats for going and the whole not peeing where you sleep thing. It is hard to praise her since she is so shy - any quick movements scare her and she doesn't really enjoy affection. Giving her treats seems to work as she is expecting them now after she goes outside....just not enough to hold it while in the kennel. Any advice for a rescued yorkie?

Potty Training Question
 

I have just downloaded the How to housebreak your dog in 7 days on my Kindle and looking forward to reading it. I kept two of my puppies from my litter so have got to get them trained. I was reading all the good pointers and email from all of you but didn't see my biggest problem addressed (maybe further down than I read ;)) .... anyone have training advise for me when I work all day? Does the book address this?
:aimeeyork

I also work all day and need this advice too, desperatly!!!

Hahaha I purchased the book only hours before this thread. It's great!

This schedule worked out great for me. True to form, I stuck with it for 7 days to a tee and she was trained by the end of it. Thanks everyone!!

Clicker training
 

Help. I ve been using Housebreaking in7Days with moderate success but it has only been 2 days. Brutus will pee outdoors but will not poop outdoors. When he poops indoors it is one of three spots that are it of the way, away from the central activity. Our thought is that he does not want others to see him poop. We are using a crate. I have had dogs since childhood and never had a dog poop secretly. Thanks for any input.

Click is used when your done making the command . Uses positive reinforcement and treat based. I prefer not to use a click but train with voice and sign. With treats. My dog can do all commands with sign no voice. With any method you use it just takes time. IME classes work well in teaching you how to train the dog as well as the dog getting social. JME/JMO

Ok, I read all (more or less :P) the potty training thread here, and I know you are supposed to say No when you see him trying to go where you don't want them to, then pick him up and put him on the pad to do it there. And then praise him a lot if he does it there. And repeat until he figures it out what you want.

The problem I have is that I can't seem to figure out when he wants to go. Especially with the pee. He has the same face and body posture when he just sits or when he pees. He is walking, stops for 2 seconds and when he moves again the little puddle is there. I tried putting a little of the pee on a pad, I tried spraying a pad with that spray that theoretically tells them "here are you supposed to go", I tried putting him on a pad several times after he wakes up...

He is with us only for a day, but he is a smart dog and I am sure he would understand what i want, I just have to figure out how to communicate it to him at the right moment, which I seem to fail on doing...

Is one year too late to potty train?
 

oops, had no idea what I was doing so didn't crate Bitsy as puppy as long as this site indicates so she goes outside when I take her but hides and goes in the house if I don't catch her. She will crate without fussing as long as she can see me - is it too late to get her completely trained for outside?

I really have a hard time with my 12 month Yorkie named Rocky pad training him. He's been doing his business on the floor a lot and it's very rare he does it on the pad. I'm currently pad training him and I would like to get tips. I don't have a crate, but I have a pen, though the pen is small, but not confined space, he still about to move around just a tiny little. It's a triangle shape with 2by2by2foot.

My days with him are 8am wake up, sometime potty on my room floor already or rarely goes on the pad when I wakes up. He done it already :( I would bring him to the pad and sat with him for half an hour, making sure he never leave the pad. He only did it a few times. Most of the time he would sit there on the pad. after that feeding around 08:00-9:00. 09:30-10:00pad time. 10:00-13:00 I will be busy out the house and I would come home with potty in his pen area. I still bring him to the pad, sat there for 15minutes, and he still would sit there. random minutes or hours later he done his business on the floor :( 15:00 pad time, I repeatably placing him on the pad for 30minutes. Few minutes later we left, does his business on the floor. :( 19:00-20:00 feeding time. 21:00 pad time.

During time rest of the time he hangs out with me on my bed or on the couch watching tv. Any help here? Why hes choose not to do it on the pad?

I train my dog to use the bell. It was hard work, but one day it just click. I purchase the training bell from wallmart.

We or should I say I ask my babies if the have to go potty then take my male outside my female wont go. she runs to her paid. my male even tho he is fixed still wants to mark everything. Problem is I have a Parrot that says You have to go potty??? then he says Good boy or Good Girl lets get a treat . LOL there is a pad near his cage but my male pees on the leg of the cage if im not home to watch.
Just thougth I would share.

I am having trouble with my JoJo. When I take him out and he pees, he gets a treat. I think that dog has me figured out. If I am gone, he gets no treat, he will just pee on the towel by the dog bed. Or on the little carpet. This Yorkie is a year old. I trained him to pee on pee pee pads in the house. (Probably a mistake) Now he will go out when I take him, but has accidents in the house when I am gone. I thought a dog would not pee on his bed. He does. What is up with this Yorkie? He is cute but does not want to be trained My Way!
Thanks!
Sandy Simpson

530 is sleeping in for me!! I'm up at 3am!! sound like a pretty good schedule to me!!

I am new to this thread and also new to be a puppy owner (im 37 and its my first dog). We have a 10 week old yorki-chon. I'm very stressed over potty training. My first question is how often do i take her out and how long do we stay outside if she doesnt go immediately. Also, has anyone used a bell on the door and does it work? Lastly, she sleep ALOT. I'm assuming like human babies, that is normal? she is sleeping in her crate all night and is dry in the morning. in the 3 days we've had her she had 2 poop accidents inside, no peep yet. does this sound normal and on track?

Congratulations on your new addition to the family! There is nothing like the love of a dog! My favorite saying-All you need is love and a dog!
The potty training is an issue. I wish I had trained my male Yorkie to go outside. I trained him on a pee pee pad inside and now it is hard to get him to go out all the time. So train yours to go out if you want that to happen. Stay out there with her until you see her go. Then praise and treat. Some Yorkies are easy to train and some like my JoJo are a little tougher. Don't give up!

Potty Training
 

Hi...thank you for posting the links to the vet who has posted a pdf file. I went onto the vets site but couldn't find the link to potty training? Please help! Ax:(

No new puppy owners? I just joined after getting my first Yorkie 2 wks ago. She is 12wks old and we are struggling with house breaking. She does ok,but still potties in the house right aftercoming in for outside.

Thanks, I have also ordered the book.

If you do a mixture of in house and outside potty training... will it leave them confused and untrained one way or the other?

Will he ever potty in his tent!
 

I have a very tiny morkie puppy (about 10 weeks old, 1.5 pounds) that I am trying to potty train indoors. He is too small to be taken outside (he shakes like a leaf everytime he goes out for even a second). I bought him a big indoor puppy tent-house, which I divided with a barrier so that the front would be his home and the back would be his potty. I cut a small door so that he can get to the back easily. However, he really does not like going in there and always runs as far away as possible to the back of the apartment to go to the bathroom. I know that a dog's instinct is not to go where he 'lives' but I'm wondering if this is something I can train him to get over, or is it doing him damage by trying to force him to go in the back of his house?

You would be better to set up an ex-pen with his bed, puppy pads, and crate rather than force him to go where he sleeps. Mom has taught them not to go potty where they sleep...jmo not a good idea.

My pup is 11 weeks old and I'm not sure if I can start putting him on the schedule yet. I'm not sure if he can hold his pee for 8 hours that I'll be gone since I'm working. No one's going to be home with him while I'm gone so I'm very anxious about leaving him in the crate. I tried leaving him before (although it might be my fault) and peed and pooped in there. So now I am kind of scared to leave him. At night he lets me know that he needs to pee by crying at night. He's peeing more in the pad than outside. He rarely goes outside to poop too. He pees just a little. We take him outside to try to teach him how to potty there, but even if we stayed outside for about half an hour, he still won't go.

I'm so frustrated with potty training right now. His crying and this potty training. :( HELP!

Potty training is a process, it is going to take a while. My advise is to try to let go of your frustration, as they can pick up on it and it will only make the process more difficult. :) With a puppy, you lose sleep for awhile, its a fact and once you get through those first few weeks, months.. you forget how much sleep you lost, lol
As far as the crate, I would not leave a pup in a crate for 8 hrs and expect him not to relieve himself.. A general rule of thumb is they can hold their bladder for approx same amount of hours as is their age in months. For ex: a two month old can expect to hold it two hours, etc. An expen, with peepads on one side, and crate/or bed and water/ food on the other side is your best bet.