The YT Potty Log

[QuickSilver]

Hi, skellington! I'm sorry you've backtracked, but remember, your pup is very, very young. I think potty prodigies are MAYBE trained by 4 months, smarties by six months, and the rest by a year.

I would keep him crated inside until he's consistent again. It will most likely only be a few more weeks, since he's shown so much progress already. He has his whole life to run around without ruining your floors. And he'll be motivated to get his freedom back.

[mfannin]

I feel like such a bad mommie. I have 3 rescues and all three I hate to say are in diapers. I've been trying to get them to use pads for years with no luck, I've tried litter boxes no luck. two of them are terrified of outside. So now my neighbors know me as the crazy lady who puts diapers on her dogs.

The bad thing about it is when they have a poop they come right to me to change them. Whats up with that.

Won't go on pads or outside but will come and pester when they need a diaper change.

I think I have just raised myself little monsters

[AbbysMom08]

I am having issues with my Abby.
She does let me know when she has to go out so we do pretty good during the day and evening. It's during the night we have the issue. She messes in her crate. Her crate is only big enough for her to stand up, turn around and lay down. This makes me crazy!!
I was so upset early last night. I had just taken the old paper (with pee on it ) out of the drop pan in her crate, wiped down the drop pan and bottom grate in her crate with Nature's Miracle ( of which I should buy stock in ). I left the door open to her crate. I turned around and she was in her crate. I thought ok, but as I looked closer she was peeing. She just walked right in there and peed. I am just beside myself. She didn't even tell me she had to go.
I don't know what to do with her anymore. Right before I put her in the crate at night, about midnight, I take her out to potty. I get up about 5:45a and take her out. Sometimes, (most times) she has already messed in her crate. She is 8 months old and I would think she would be able to hold it longer than 6 hours. She is not fed late.
This just makes me crazy as the other 2 yorkies I had, never did this. I was so very lucky with them and I NEVER had a problem with potty training them. I guess I was just very, very lucky.

[QuickSilver]

Originally Posted by mfannin

I feel like such a bad mommie. I have 3 rescues and all three I hate to say are in diapers. I've been trying to get them to use pads for years with no luck, I've tried litter boxes no luck. two of them are terrified of outside. So now my neighbors know me as the crazy lady who puts diapers on her dogs.

The bad thing about it is when they have a poop they come right to me to change them. Whats up with that.

Won't go on pads or outside but will come and pester when they need a diaper change.

I think I have just raised myself little monsters

Well, you are an angel for taking the rescues, so that more than balances it all out. I would think it would be extremely difficult to train three untrained dogs at once. Though obviously they are trainable since they know to come to you for a change....

Originally Posted by AbbysMom08

I am having issues with my Abby.
She does let me know when she has to go out so we do pretty good during the day and evening. It's during the night we have the issue. She messes in her crate. Her crate is only big enough for her to stand up, turn around and lay down. This makes me crazy!!
I was so upset early last night. I had just taken the old paper (with pee on it ) out of the drop pan in her crate, wiped down the drop pan and bottom grate in her crate with Nature's Miracle ( of which I should buy stock in ). I left the door open to her crate. I turned around and she was in her crate. I thought ok, but as I looked closer she was peeing. She just walked right in there and peed. I am just beside myself. She didn't even tell me she had to go.
I don't know what to do with her anymore. Right before I put her in the crate at night, about midnight, I take her out to potty. I get up about 5:45a and take her out. Sometimes, (most times) she has already messed in her crate. She is 8 months old and I would think she would be able to hold it longer than 6 hours. She is not fed late.
This just makes me crazy as the other 2 yorkies I had, never did this. I was so very lucky with them and I NEVER had a problem with potty training them. I guess I was just very, very lucky.

AbbysMom08, I don't have an answer for you, but I am looking for one. Hang in there!

[QuickSilver]

One last post for the night. Thor is having what I hope is his last creative potty inspiration. Now that the micro-pees aren't getting him tons of treats, he is working on the micro-poop. Usually he goes once a day. The past few days, he's been going more than four times, squeezing out things barely visible to the human eye.

[lje213]

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

Hi everyone!

I thought we should have a thread for those of us in the potty training trenches. We are the ones who buy Nature's Miracle in bulk. We are the ones who have pulled up all the area rugs in our house. We are the ones with tears on our faces, sweat on our brows, diapers on our dogs. Our heads are bloodied, but unbowed.

I'll go first. On the goal of thirty accident-free days, Thor and I are back to Day 0. Last night, we were playing indoors. Usually I growl and him and he takes off running. Amazingly, I was literally standing almost on top of him, wondering why he had stopped running for a second. Then he started again and I Knew.

I think there's a silver lining in all of this, in that I corrected him (though I did have to catch him first) and took him back to the pad. He's doing extremely well with the pad in my living room, so I think now I need to extend that training to other pads.

I also got the grass-scented pads yesterday. They don't smell any different to me, but I desperately hope they smell different to Thor.

Loli will soon be 8 months and I think we are finally getting it! (maybe!) She has now scratched on the door two times in a row! It's great! My husband and I both go running when we hear that wonderful sound! There are definitely good days and bad days though! Sometimes I wonder if she truely gets it! I try not to get discouraged when she has an accident. Things are definately better then they used to be. Good luck to you all!

[ellie18]

in response to puppy abby:

sounds like ur puppy thinks the crate is a safe area to go potty in now. maybe try putting her in the crate right after she goes potty outside during the day. then take her out ~1-2 hours later. keep repeating the process so she learns to be in a clean dry crate? she can hold it. mine has held it for 10+ hours before in the crate (i overslept) and she is almost 9 months old. can she see you when she is in the crate at night?

[Bellaandhelen]

Day one again. Poor Bella had an upset stomach yesterday evening, but thank goodness she is feeling well this morning . I am optimistic about today because my hubby will be home with her all day while he is post-call. I think we are ready to get it right this time.
Helen and Bella

[charonjames]

So I have a big problem.... Kobe is 1 year old and is not fully potty trained yet and I just don't know what to do. When I'm at home with him he does pretty good about not peeing or pooping on the floor. He's not to the point where he is telling me that he has to go so I just take him out every few hours and that seems to be working. I tried the bell training method but everytime I would make him ring it he would back away like he was scared or something so I just stopped. I would like him to tell me at some point but that's the least of my concerns right now. The problem is when I'm away. I used to leave him in a xpen that is about 2'x4'. His bed took up one half and the pee pad frame took up the other half. Well I'd get home and he would have ripped the pee pad to shreds despite the fact that it was in a frame. (By the way I've tried 2 different types of frames/holders so that's not the problem.) My mom said that he was probably just rebelling because he was mad that he has to be in a xpen all day (9 hours while I'm at work) and then a 2'x2' crate all night (8 hours) when we're sleep. (I've tried letting him stay our overnight confined to my bedroom but I would always wake up to poop on the floor.) I figured that she may be right so I decided that I would let him have the finished basement as "his area" while I'm away and I just close it off with a baby gate. I have his bed down there, a radio, food and water (I have to leave the food or he'll just eat his poop instead), a variety of toys and his framed pee pad. As of today he's been staying in his area for almost two weeks but he will NOT pee or poop on the pee pad while I'm gone despite the fact that he's knows that he's suppose to be going on it and he's been going on it for the entire year that I have had him. To make things worse, for the past two days I've had to come home to the pee pad that he decided to start destroying again. I just don't know what to do :-(

[arabiandaz]

Quicksilver, I LOVE your posts!!! I'm new to the forum and went right to the training thread since it just isn't happening with my 5 month old "Elf". Well, besides learning that it might not just be my own inabilities, which helps, I got hooked on your posts!! They read like a comic novel! Not that I don't sympathize with your plight but you are so clever and funny with your discriptions. I envy your accomplishments even though you sometimes only make a day or so. I can't even make more than a couple of hours and that's most likely because the urge just isn't there or I happened to be lucky and catch him. The only plus is that since his first day with us at 9 1/2 weeks he has not had to go all night long and then when he gets up in the morning I take him out and he does eveything. He gets lots of treats and praise but he doesn't seem to catch on. I take that back to some degree. Often he will go over to his special spot and squat like he's going, does nothing and then runs over for his treat. I can't decide if he is smarter than I or not too swift at all...............

[Bellaandhelen]

Yay! We've made it through day 8 (so far). Bella even used her potty pad this morning before I woke up when she usually goes only outside!!! I was so excited and happy I could have cried. Even my hubby was so proud of her. I'm still driving home at lunch every day- which I actually really look forward to and haven't gotten fired yet, so we'll just see if I can continue without getting in trouble.

[QuickSilver]

Originally Posted by Bellaandhelen

Yay! We've made it through day 8 (so far). Bella even used her potty pad this morning before I woke up when she usually goes only outside!!! I was so excited and happy I could have cried. Even my hubby was so proud of her. I'm still driving home at lunch every day- which I actually really look forward to and haven't gotten fired yet, so we'll just see if I can continue without getting in trouble.

Day 8 is HUGE! Congratulations!

Thor now has access to all but 1/2 of one room, which has a ton of stuff on the ground, and I want to get that cleaned up before I let him in - I don't want him to confuse all the paper with a new type of potty pad.

He's been doing pretty good at work too - I think he may at this point have gone 30 days without an accident there. He knows to look for the potty pad and will go on it unprompted. Unfortunately, the last time I let him loose, he tried to sneak a pee in. He was walking around all casual, like peeing was the last thing on his mind, and then he lifted his little leg next to a chair. I DID correct him before he let loose, and put him on the potty pad, and he did go there, but I don't think I can consider him to be completely trustworthy yet. I don't know, I guess I'll go another 30 days for work?

I'm guessing he would still go inside if he was brought over to another house with a dog. I'm not sure I'll ever be confident about that, so I'm looking into getting him some belly bands for those special occasions. The weird thing is that he has neverEVER tried to potty in a store. I wish I knew what they were doing right!

[shannonroselive]

As always, Thor is hilarious! I just thought I'd stop in and see how everyone's potty adventures are coming. I don't get on much anymore. Curly has apparently decided she is a full fledged potty trained girl. YAY!!!! But, there is one thing. She will almost always "go" on someone elses floor when we go visiting. I hear it's cuz they have pets or whatever but it's still not fun. All in all though, what a great pup we have! She is under my feet 24/7 which I don't understand either. She's supposed to be my sons dog but she latched on to me! Oh well. Everyone loves her and we love her right back.

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

One last post for the night. Thor is having what I hope is his last creative potty inspiration. Now that the micro-pees aren't getting him tons of treats, he is working on the micro-poop. Usually he goes once a day. The past few days, he's been going more than four times, squeezing out things barely visible to the human eye.

[AbbysMom08]

Well......here we are again
This am I was so happy because Abby had 3 ( count em' 1,2,3,) nights in her crate where she didn't mess in it. So happy about that. Well.....I took her out this morning about 6:15am and she did pee and I kept her out as long as I could to see if she would pooh. I had to get in and take a shower so I could get to work. I planned on taking her out again after my shower. Well.....I went to take her out of her crate and there it was just staring up at me.......a turd. (Sorry for the language). I was so upset with her. I am just beside myself (as usual). So that is my sad story for now. I so hope we have a clean crate in the morning.

[QuickSilver]

Originally Posted by shannonroselive

As always, Thor is hilarious! I just thought I'd stop in and see how everyone's potty adventures are coming. I don't get on much anymore. Curly has apparently decided she is a full fledged potty trained girl. YAY!!!! But, there is one thing. She will almost always "go" on someone elses floor when we go visiting. I hear it's cuz they have pets or whatever but it's still not fun. All in all though, what a great pup we have! She is under my feet 24/7 which I don't understand either. She's supposed to be my sons dog but she latched on to me! Oh well. Everyone loves her and we love her right back.

Yaaaaaay! That's so wonderful! We finally have a potty graduate! Yeah, I think it's very common for dogs to pee around other dogs. It's their version of announcing their presence.

Originally Posted by AbbysMom08

Well......here we are again
This am I was so happy because Abby had 3 ( count em' 1,2,3,) nights in her crate where she didn't mess in it. So happy about that. Well.....I took her out this morning about 6:15am and she did pee and I kept her out as long as I could to see if she would pooh. I had to get in and take a shower so I could get to work. I planned on taking her out again after my shower. Well.....I went to take her out of her crate and there it was just staring up at me.......a turd. (Sorry for the language). I was so upset with her. I am just beside myself (as usual). So that is my sad story for now. I so hope we have a clean crate in the morning.

Bummer! I can imagine that turd smirking up at you from its turdiness. Well, 3 days is a good start. When Thor had an accident after two days, he went 17 without an accident the next time. So there is always tomorrow. I am wondering if you should take her into the bathroom with you when you shower. Would she go on the floor there, or is this something she reserves for her crate?

Also, do you have a potty command word? If you can get her on a command, you won't have the long waits outside wondering, will she or won't she.