Anything wrong with what we are doing?

[SoCalyorkiLvr]

It is really the owner that requires the training and not the yorkie!! LOL!!! Like Nobella said it takes great patience and persistence but it is really not HARD. Yokries are smart and they like to have a JOB and therefore they respond well to training and that includes a combination of obedience training nd house training.

Little yorkies cannot be expected to "hold it" successfully until they are about 6 months old as their bodies are not fully developed until that point to allow for bladder control. This is why I am opposed to crate training...that and I just don't agree with putting dogs in small cages for longer periods of time.

10 weeks is very young and at this age he needs to go potty every hour or so. He needs to be taken out after he wakes up, after he eats, after he drinks, after he plays, after he naps and every hour otherwise. I find that using an xpen outside where he is confined to a fairly small space just for going potty where he is left (with you a short distance away encouraging him to "go") until he goes and rewarded when he does is very effective. You can walk away and he will get the idea that he doesn't get out until he does his business.

I don't think it is confusing to train with pee pads and outside.All of mine picked up on it very well and since mine are not allowed outside without me due to the danger of birds of prey, I like the convenience of both.

Good luck with your training!!

[Hamoth]

Originally Posted by YorkieRose

I know I am pessimistic when it comes to housetraining a Yorkie. I have had many well trained ones...but it took a long time. My 14 wks old is doing very well, but she is far from being safe to let on carpets..fortunately, here in Florida we only have them in two bedrooms.

I read the posts and this is the number one problem, over and over. Until I started insisting on male neutering at 6 months, I had many puppy owners complain years later they did not have a trained male.
I must say my Katherine was 100% trained, but not until she was spayed at 5 years.
Let's face it..I am a bad mother when it comes to training Yorks...I had my Doxie pups trained at 12 weeks without fail. Same with a Min Pin I had a few years back...not my Yorks! LOL

LOl. Well funny that within hours of writing this:

At 8 months his last accident occured and none since

WE had an accident...although I don't think it was accidental. We had to dig up our old hazmat gear from the bottom of the "dog box".

[yorkiedorkie]

It just takes patience. A couple punts of the balcony should do it! j/k I would just recommended being patient. Don't yell at the dog, it's true, they just want to please you and make you happy. I'm typically a little firm with my dogs. If they pee, I show them their mistake, say no and put them outside. After doing this repeatedly, they learn and do well. With my new pup Timmy, he makes all kinds of mistakes, poops after he eats and he has really sharp raptor like claws that tear up the rug. But its ok, I show him where he did wrong, tell him no and we go about are business and play. He especially likes this toy squeaky computer that has a GW on it. I show him that and he spends hours playing with it. Anyway, enough about Timmy, he's a fun pup. But have patience!!!

[Sophiaa]

Originally Posted by vainchick5

10 weeks old is young but only having had him for a week, and expecting him to be potty trained is wayyyyyy to high of an expectation. I think you may also be confusing him by trying to train him inside and outside. I think the outside will come more naturally later, but you have to kind of pick which one you want to start off with. He's ONLY 10 weeks. He doesn't understand what NO is or why your voice sounds so loud/scary. Unless you catch him in the act, it is useless to yell at him for something he won't understand. When they are older like past 1 year, they begin to understand you better but for now, you gotta just be consistent and patient. I used to sit on the floor next to Coco and her pad for hours on end. I would ignore my cell calls, the tv and everything else. I would sit there with her, at her pad forever, if that's what it took for her to understand the words "Coco do your business". She would whine and whimper and want to go play but until she would do her business we would just sit there. After about a month or a month and a half, it totallly clicked in her, that when I say those words, if she went potty, we would go and have fun and she would get treats. It will eventually click. Coco was potty trained at 4 months.

I'd like to ask you where did you sit with her? In closed room? Thank you!

[mustangbee]

10 weeks is very young.
Princess was a year old before she caught on.
It takes time, Rambo will train, they all do.
Good Luck to you!

[troubletb]

Ok I disagree with some of this. My Lilly is 15 weeks old and she can and does hold it all night. The reason I know this is because she sleeps with me in my bed and she can not get down by herself and my bed has never been wet (at least not by her!) So she can hold it for 8+ hours. My 10 week old can not, so him we forgive. I have wee wee pads all over my house. I had to pick up all my throw rugs as I guess they seemed like wee wee pads. Lilly is very good about going on the pads, but don't move them because she still goes in that same spot.

I just had this conversation with my neighbor, who has two yorkies (brother and sister) he said they crate trained them. (they do not work) He said they would keep the puppies in their crates and take them out to pee, bring them into the house play with them for a while and put them back in their crate. (even during the day when they were home) His dogs are trained and he says they have very little amounts of accidents. SO, I guess anything is possible. I have Bell trained, but that was two and a half yeras ago and I only had one to train, Now I have two babies and its VERY HARD!

[medusa512]

potty training edgar has been a bit rough for me because all my life i've been around large dogs. they have bigger bladders and you automatically train them to go outside. (lake michigan vs puddle) yorkies have teeny bladders!

i agree he may be confused with the go here, go outside thing.
have you thought about taking a wet pad outside? he will smell the "go here" smell on it.
and right now, he will go where he happens to be b/c he just can't hold it that long.

edgar is 7mo and he still has (very few) accidents. but now, he knows.
it will get easier, just be patient

[kksmommy]

I'm crate training my two puppies (they're 12wks old). They hold it all night long. Before bringing my daughter to school in the morning, I bring them out. We spend a good bit of the day going in and out of the house and I bring them out just before bed. The smaller pup has more accidents than the larger pup. I should mention that I keep them on the leash with me while we're in the home, so I can keep up with them. At first, I was trying to take them both outside on the leash in the same area; however, they both wanted to "do business" in different parts of the yard. If I just take them outside, they go to "their part" of the yard and do their business. This is working for us... I think they're doing so good for their age. Proud yorkie mommy