How long can a yorkie hold its pee? Does wieght make a difference?
 

Hello, My wife and I are thinking of getting a Yorkie poo. The mom is about 6 pound Yorkie and the dad is 4 pound toy poodle. My question is when the dog is fully grown, will it be able to hold its pee for 9 hours. My wife and I work 9-5 plus driving time equals about 9 hours. I will be able to take the dog sometimes to my office but maybe only 1-2 times a week. I will be coming home on my lunch break for an hour and taking the dog out and playing with it, but eventually i want to get away from this when the dog is older, this is only temporarily while the dog is a pup. Does the size or weight of an adult dog determine how long a dog can holds it pee? is their a difference between a 5 and 10 pound dog on how long they can hold it? Would we want to leave water or food out during the day when it is an adult? Thanks

That's a good question but I don't know if there is an actuall answer.
A puppy, they say, can hold it urine for 1hr for each month that it is.
So a puppy that is 5mos old should be able to hold it's pee for 5hrs
increasing this time as it get's older. Some Yorkies are very hard to
train, it seems to be a fact for the breed. I know some member's have
small Yorkies who are fully trained all day. Buddy is a larger boy,
weighing 16lbs and he's good for 9 1/2hrs. We sleep in on weekends
and have gone as long as 10 hrs without any problem. Weather this
has anything to do with his size I have no idea. He has no water
during that time because were sleeping.
If your baby is a small one leaving a pee pad down during the time
your away may be a good idea if you think he can't or won't hold it.
In general, yes, Yorkies can hold it for 9hrs, depends on the Yorkie.
Good luck and welcome.

I would also suggest a pee pad to make it easier on everyone.

I leave a pee pad down for Teddi but she might use it once a week...sometimes she goes a week without using it. Before I go to work I take her for a walk and she poops once and pees about 6 times (so I think she gets it all out of her). When we get home I feed her breakfast and I go to work. When I get home from work (about 8 or 9 hours later) I take her out to pee (sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't). Then right before I feed her dinner (about 7:30 pm) I take her out to pee. She then eats dinner and I take her out before she goes to bed and she will pee and sometimes poop. Oh and she is 3 years old and 3 lbs.

Pixel is only 4 pounds and I leave at 8 am for work and don't get home until 5:30 - 5:45. I leave him in an ex-pen with a pee pad every day (just in case), but he probably only uses it about once a month or even less. So he can easily hold it 9.5 hours. :D He also holds it all night while we sleep (8 hours). Have fun with your puppy if you get it and I think you should ;)

UGH! I'm glad you're Yorkie's can go that long! It's rare for mine to go more than 4-5 hours. Most nights we are up between midnight and 2:00 AM cause she has to go out to pee.
My Biewer...he goes all night without having to pee. He sleeps like a dream. However, my Yorkie is just a bit more busy and she doesn't hold it that long.
Currently I am working on convincing her that she DOES NOT have to pee in the middle of the night. Some nights I win, some nights she wins. Good luck!

Sydney is 4 years old , she is about 10 lbs. and she goes out about three to four times a day ( she lets us know when she needs out) ... but she can hold it up to 10 hours without a problem. If we are gone for a long period of time , she does fine. Her last time out at night is about 9/10 p.m. and she doesn't go out again till morning , around 7 a.m. or so with no problems. She was never pad trained , only outside trained.

CHloe is 19mo. old and just under 3 lbs. so she uses her pad alot. I have a pad out for her at night and in the morning it is used atleast once , so she doesn't seem to hold it to long . I know she can go atleast 6 hours if she had to. When she sleeps with us ( rarely) she will go about 6/7 hours before waking us up to potty.

we stopped putting the pads out when Ruby was over a year old. She holds it all day 8 hours and during the night too. Rarely do we have to get up at night with her.
It just takes a while to train them. Ruby is about 6 and a half pounds and almost 3 years old.:aimeeyork

Lexi was able to hold it for 8 hours at 5 months old.

At 2 years old, she can hold it for 10 hours. She is a bigger yorkie weighing in at about 10lbs.

Bella's Info
 

Bella is 3.9 lb. and 14 months old. She potties for the last time at 7:45 p.m. or so and is in her crate for night time from 8:00 p.m. until 6:30 a.m. She does fine holding her urine for long periods of time. She's gone 9 hours. She has NEVER gone in her ex-pen or crate. But, she is more likely to go every 3 hours or so when she is up and loose in the house. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Thank you very much for every ones input. I didn't think of it before about leaving a puppy pad out. When should I introduce pee pads to the dog when I am trying to teach it to go outside? What is the best method of doing both?

I have a Yorkie that I got 2 months ago.she is 2 1/2 years old and she seems to do fine during the day I usually check on her at lunch, but she keeps peeing in her crate at night. I put up her food and water by 6:30 and I take her out one last time at 10:00. I wake her up at 6 and usually she has peed. I would think she could hold it since she does during the day. any suggestions?

Mine made it a LONG time in his crate when he was little. Like first night home 4 hours, and second night 8 hours... he's been a blessing to train.

We use a grid system. it's a different option from the pee pads.

What is a grid system?

Pee Pads
 

We bought Jinx two months ago and she was 14 weeks old. The breeder trained her on pee pads and we have been using them ever since.

Jinx has never gone to the bathroom outside. She knows where the pads are and I change them once per day (about 35 cents per pad if you buy them online).

At night she will go about 7 to 8 hours without needing to use the pad, but at 14 weeks she needed to get up once during the night.

I would never ask a dog to hold it that long during the day when water is easily available.

In the evenings we pull up the water dish about 2 hours before bedtime and put her on a pad (in the bathroom) for about a minute or so. She does her business and is fine all night.

During the daytime I take her to work and have a pee pad on the floor in a corner of my office. Again, she knows where it is and there have been rare accidents.

Jinx is now 22 weeks old and probably won't grow much more. She's 4 lbs and completely trained to use the pads. Even my cat sometimes uses the pad. They are easy to fold up and toss away and you won't have to worry much about your dog going in other places of the house.

I would suggest an enclosed space to start. We have a 6' diameter play area where there is plenty of room for a pad + water + sleeping area.

Dogs will not go to the bathroom where they sleep (unless they have to), and once they do it becomes more difficult to train, so its important that you get a large enough play area where the pee pad covers at most about 25% of the area.

Here's another hint on pee pads: Your dog, once brought home, will find its own place to go. Its simply going to happen. Once they soil a certain area, make THAT the place you keep a pee pad down.

I've potty/kennel trained all kinds of dogs (from shelters, to abused animals, puppies, and older dogs) with good results.

It takes time, patience, and consistency.

It's a tray with a rubber mat that is a grid on top, and you put newspapers on the bottom. I find it a lot easier and cheaper to maintain for an indoor dog. Harley still goes outside when we walk, but he knows where his potty is.

In the US, UGODog and WizDog are two such products, personally I wouldn't pay that much for it, I made mine from scratch, out of a shoe tray and rubber mats, you can buy the grid mats at hardware stores. I keep promising to post pictures of Harley's I'll get a picture up as soon as possible.

I have a 7 month who has been holding it 8-9 hours, since he was 5 mths. He is around 6 lbs. He stays in a small area while I am at work, no pads--outside trained only. He has a water bottle available while I'm gone.

My yorkie is 1.5 years old, 8.2 lbs - She can hold it all night for 9 hours, but once in awhile every 6 months she might make a mistake in the house - either because we go too long without letting her outside OR if she gets too excited by playing with other dogs then she goes within 4 hours. She's usually good on average 6-8 hours. Good luck!

Blazer only potties outside. He is now 3 1/2 years old and weighs about 8#s. He goes out at 7am and then again around 3:20pm. He has free roam of the house and has no accidents. It didn't happen overnight, it took patience and practice. He's been holding it through the night since I brought him home at 8 weeks, though.

How much do you weigh and I assume then you and your wife both have no need to use a washroom for the nine hours you are away from home?
Forcing a dog to wait like that is not good for the dog. When ya gotta go ya gotta go and much healthier to rid of the waste when the urge is there. You can create infections, damage to kidney, bladder stones by not having reasonably regular opportunities for them to potty. I use puppy pads mine are the washable one or their are very good disposable ones on the market. I refuse to sell a dog or puppy where no one is home for that period of time without a neighbour relative or friend that can come in at least once a day to let the dog out, interact with it etc.

My 13 pound yorkie Boomer uses the pee pad all the time. He can hold it but prefers to relieve himself. My other Yorkie Thumper will hold his pee until I take him outside about 95% of the time. Rarely does he use the pee pad unless absolutely necessarily. Both prefer to poop outside.