The YT Potty Log

[newproudmom]

charlie and i have been accident free for a little over a month. Then today, he pee inside the bedroom. ARgh. It was my fault. He shouldn't have waited. Argh. I could just hit myself over the head for it.

[ParrotLady]

Originally Posted by lilshortyss

I'm starting to thinks she's using the paper for the cookie not because she had to go. but at least she's using it

Yep! LOL That is the way it goes, but at least it works.

[QuickSilver]

ParrotLady, I'm wondering if your girl likes the refrigerator because there's some warm air being emitted? Not sure if that's what it is, or if that's helpful in any way, but thought I'd throw that out there.

[ParrotLady]

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

ParrotLady, I'm wondering if your girl likes the refrigerator because there's some warm air being emitted? Not sure if that's what it is, or if that's helpful in any way, but thought I'd throw that out there.

Hmmmm, I don't know. She doesn't go "right" in front of it, just "in front" of it. LOL (Trying to make a picture with my quotes around the words!)

Sometimes we will see her sniffing around on that end of the kitchen and mention going on the pad and she will trot over to the pad and go. It is like she starts a sniffin and ends up at the other end of the kitchen! LOL

[Honeypaute]

I have to admit, I am happy to read this post as I thought I was alone with Tater, who is 98% potty trained, but will leave me a prize or I find a mysterious yellow spot occasionally.

Coco is providing me with a new challenge of potty training. She gets peeing outside but refuses to go #2. I spent over an hour in the freezing cold rain tonight with her waiting for her to give up and go, but she just won't. Sadly I gave up and came back inside before we both got the flu! All she knows is defecating/urinating in her 2x2 cell, so I am going to have my work cut out for me!! I am hoping that her being 2 y.o. may help her to pick it up faster....

[tritsy]

Can you all hear me jump up and down for joy for having found yorkietalk.com??? sammy is my first yorkie. he is my 2nd puppy mill rescue. I read a bunch of books, but just kind of went by feel. he's been in his forever home for 5 months now, and at 9 years old, he has gone from no clue, to fully housebroken... I sure didn't expect that! He is too afraid of the great outdoors to follow his poodle sister outside, and couldn't handle the stairs at first, anyhow, so we went the pee pad route. he has a pee pad in his "jail" area (2 rooms and a puppy gate), another in the dining room (bad choice, i know!), another upstairs by the chair he peed on regularly, and another, never used, in my bedroom. the key for sammy (and again, i know i got lucky with him), was creating a litter box he wasn't afraid of-a cardboard box cut down to just the back and floor, with a pee pad clipped to the back of it, draped down onto the cardboard (in case of leaks). because i left a one inch high ledge on the 2 sides, he kind of has to walk "in" to use it... thus eliminating the pee NEXT to the pad!

[QuickSilver]

Originally Posted by tritsy

Can you all hear me jump up and down for joy for having found yorkietalk.com??? sammy is my first yorkie. he is my 2nd puppy mill rescue. I read a bunch of books, but just kind of went by feel. he's been in his forever home for 5 months now, and at 9 years old, he has gone from no clue, to fully housebroken... I sure didn't expect that!

Can you all hear me turning GREEN WITH ENVY??

[Honeypaute]

Today is hopefully day 1! Coco made big progressed and made #2 OUTSIDE today woohoo! This is the first time, she also peed out there this a.m. Tater is pretty good about not going in the house, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that this is day 1 for them both!

Tritsy, I agree - Here, Here for Yorkie Talk! Congrats on making such progress with Sammy, it makes me happy to know that these Mill dogs can come so far and to know that there's light at the end of the tunnel with Coco's potty training!

[Snickerdoodles]

Originally Posted by newproudmom

charlie and i have been accident free for a little over a month. Then today, he pee inside the bedroom. ARgh. It was my fault. He shouldn't have waited. Argh. I could just hit myself over the head for it.

Hello, I'm sort of new, joined up quite a while ago but just don't get as much time for the computer as I would like. I just read this though, and wanted to offer some empathy, I know EXACTLY how you feel. We were 25 days in, and in another hour it would have been bedtime and we would have closed out day 26 with no accidents, then last night my Snickers peed on the living room floor. Totally our fault, we got distracted with kids, homework, etc, got lazy, and let her wait too long. I could smack myself for it, too.
But it showed me that we weren't as far along as I thought we were, because when she's confined to the kitchen Snickers will let us know, and loudly, when she needs to go out, and apparently she doesn't think the same rules apply to the living room. So she's back to kitchen lockdown or puppy chain gang (leash attached to my belt loop) for the time being.
She's almost 5 months old, and my goal/hope/wish is to have this whole potty thing down pat by the time the kids get out of school in June. Well, a girl can dream...

[beemidiwfe]

Daisy is 8 months old today and still has occasional accidents. She really is a good girl and very smart. It is obvious she knows what "go potty" means as when she is distracted sniffing around outside and I remind her to go potty she will. Also when she wants to go out and then come back in a second later I say "go potty" and she will.

We had been keeping her with us where we mostly hang out, in the bedroom and the adjoined office. There is a bell on the door there and she rings it. In the last month we have started leaving the door open more often to the rest of the house. I just started letting her sleep on the bed instead of the crate because she was doing so well. I was closing the bedroom door to keep her from sneaking off in the night but we have cats and those with cats know that closed doors are a no-no and breach of contract that they will not tolerate. But then even leaving the door open was working. What a good dog!

But in the last week it is like we have taken a big step backwards. She still asks to go out but also pees on the floor in the kitchen and hall nearly every day and this morning pooped in the hall. (I will say that I am blessed that she prefers hard surfaces indoors to potty on so my carpets are spared.)

I bought some pads for the time we need to leave her longer than she is used to. (I have been taking her most places with me and leaving her in the car but summer is nearly here) but she has never peed on one. I have one where she most often pees in the dining room but she pees beside it. Yesterday she rang her bell and as I came into the office to let her out she was peeing on a folded plastic tarp that my husband had left by the door (!?)

I know what I need to do, I am just frustrated that I have to start this again!!! Hence joining this thread.

I had stopped giving treats for outside potty mostly because she no longer likes the freeze dried chicken I was giving her but I will:
1. Give her a yummy treat for outside potty
2. Keep her locked in the bedroom/office with me during the day and just put up with letting cats in and out every 5 seconds
3. Keep a pee pad by the door and where ever else she pees, who knows maybe she will try it.

For now I will let her keep sleeping in the bed as I don't think the potty accidents happen during the night. When ever she wakes me up I check her "pee pee hairs" for wetness and so far so good.

I just feel lots of pressure about this because my husband did not want me to have this dog and he is really griping about it. "Your dog pissed in the kitchen AGAIN, this has got to stop!!!" He wants me to rub her nose in it and spank her and of course I won't. But he doesn't get much evidence that my method is working. He thinks she won't be house broken because I coddle her too much. She knows I am not happy about it; tucks her tail and makes the bad dog face when I clean it up. But they can't reason supposedly so who knows if she makes the connection.

Sorry to ramble on. We will be starting day one tommorrow!

[linz06]

Good luck beemidiwfe!! I hope Daisy starts taking more steps forward soon!

Layla made it 3 days until this morning when she pooped beside her pad again. In her defense, we had just gotten home from my boyfriend's house and I didn't let her outside before I got in the shower. I think she wanted to go out.
Last night she went to my boyfriend's house for the first time. His whole room is white carpet, so I was pretty concerned since she always pees on rugs, ESPECIALLY if they're white (matches the pee pad!). As soon as we got there, she peed a little on the carpet, but I hadn't put a pad down yet! I saw her squat and I lifted up her bum so she'd stop, and cleaned up the little piddle spot. I put her pad right over that spot and put her on it and said "Go pee" and "Go potty" ... About 20 minutes later she was doing her poop circles and went right to her pad! And when I woke up this morning, there was a pee spot on it, and no pee spots on the carpet!
But still, we are back to day 1 again.

[beemidiwfe]

Daisy has had no accidents since I posted. I must have embarrassed her. so day 3 for us.

[Bellaandhelen]

Hi- I'm new to YT. I just adopted my little Bella (an approx 2 y/o female yorkie) about 3 weeks ago. The foster told me that she used potty pads there, but since I've had her- she seems to think that potty pads are for napping on . She will now potty outside on walks and for the most part has not had a lot of accidents (several days none, others one) in the past week. But yesterday we went out and then she pooped right after we got back inside. And then this morning - the same thing . I guess I didn't give her enough time. I just wish I could get her to use the pads inside also. I work about 25 minutes away from home and if I keep taking long lunches to come home to take her out- I'll lose my job. I've tried placing her on the pads when she needs to go and correcting her when I catch her going other places, but she doesn't seem to get it. I'll wait by that darn pad for over an hour- and she won't go!!! This is my first dog, so I'm not real experienced. I love any advice yall can offer. I leave her free in the house now because as long as I come home at lunch she won't have accidents while I'm gone. She really hated her crate (I used that for the first week and a half while we were potty training) and I'm gone 9.5 hrs if I don't come home at lunch, so I can't crate if I don't come home in between. I tried babygating her in the kitchen, but I can't find any baby gate she can't jump over- it's like she is half bunnyrabbit! (see video my husband put up)

She does last through the night 8pm-5:30 or 6am without going, so maybe it's possible for her to last all day, but it seems like a lot to ask and I'd like her to use the pads for when it's raining or when it gets really cold outside, etc.
Right now I take her out at 5:30am, 7am, 12pm, 5pm, 8pm...
Thanks for reading and in advance for any advice or tips!

Helen and Bella

[PiePiper]

Love the video. How does she do that? My Piper doesn't go up and down stairs or jumps on and off furniture never mind jump over a gate. You sure she doesn't have springs in her legs?

[Bellaandhelen]

I don't know how she does it! That's why we had to video tape her- we kept coming home and finding her in the living room (having pooped all over the carpet). We couldn't imagine she could actually jump so high, but it took her less than 60 seconds after we put the gate up. We didn't even get the first success on tape that night- she completely cleared the gate and chairs the first time. I was really worried about her jumping so high and hurting herself, so I stopped with the gate. My husband was just ammused and impressed.