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is it posible to train your yorkie to stay home alone while you are at work? Hi everyone, I am planing of adopting a yorkie puppy, but before i adopt a puppy i have this big problem. I heard a lot of people said you jsut cant leave your yorkie at home alone, becasue they dont like to be alone. My problem is iam a preschool teacher, i cant take the dog with me to work. i have to leave her home for few hours while I have to go to work. Is it posible for me to train the dog to stay home alone and wait for me to come back from work to play with her? |
Yes! Most people do have to work, run errands, have a life, LOL! Yorkies can stay alone just like any dog. Make sure they have a safe, comfortable place to stay, water, toys, pee pads, etc. |
It'd be great if they didn't have to stay alone, but sometimes you just have to. I don't really know of any training, but I do think they get use to the pattern though. Plus to me it depends on how long you will be away and if you can spend the evening with them. I work 8 hrs with an hour lunch in between. I live pretty close, so I usually go home at lunch time to give her a break. An x-pen with water & puppy pad works great. I also have a web cam I keep on her so I can give myself assurance that she's ok. My previous Yorkie that I had for many years was raised the same way, and both of them very healthy, happy little Yorkies. |
Well, I believe Yorkies need more human time than other dogs, just because so many good breeders have said this, in fact, some breeders won't sell their dogs to people who are gone all day. Yorkies are kind of perfect for a person who wants a baby. I think the way gardengirl77 describes it is fine, she works, but comes home at lunch, so the dog is never alone for long stretches. I do not think this is ideal the first year, and if I were you, I'd look for an older dog, around the age of two. |
Yes, you can. Sophie is now a year old. I teach. She stays at home while my husband and I work. She is pee pad trained and has free reign of the kitchen, living room, and dining room. No accidents. Doesn't tear anything up. She is alone during the day every other week (hubby works a swing shift, so works days one week and nights the next). I get to be home with her every weekend, all holidays, and of course for summer break. She does just fine. Of course, she's VERY excited when mommy gets home from work :) |
While I never had a puppy while I was working, I did have several adult yorkies who were fine being left alone while we worked. They were alone for up to 9 hours at a time. We did have a doggie door leading to an enclosed covered dog run outside (sort of like a huge chain link box). It was a great way to let them potty safely when we weren't home. |
I am sure you can but we didn't want Tessie to be alone so we got her a friend (Hobbes) but now she needed more friends so we have Calvin and Sassy. So big party going on while I am at work. |
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Sounds like a good deal :) |
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When she was a puppy she'd cry whenever she couldn't get to me, like when I was on the other side of the gate in the hallway. Then she was ok if she couldn't get to me, as long as she could see me. At first, she'd cry whenever I left. Now she's learned, I leave but I always come back, and she's ok with me being gone. Of course, she now watches when I'm getting ready to go out to see what purse I grab. As soon as I grab the kwigy bo, she gets excited & runs to the door cos she knows she's going with me :D. |
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That's a big help! Thanks to all of you :) I appreciate you help |
I taught preschool for over 20 years, and Yes, I lived in the bay area too.. I did not have any puppies or small dogs back then. I waited. Now i am at home virtually all the time. If I was still working full time I would want a yorkie baby to be at least 6 months . I think it is easier on the yorkie baby to be a little older when left alone. I brought home a playmate when My yorkie was a year old. They have been a great match together. It is just really hard to leave a very young, very small yorkie puppy alone. Yes, these little bundles of joy are easily compared to human babies. They need a lot of TLC, and somone watching over them, making sure they eat enough and are safe. Some are too small to even jump on the couch . If you do work full time and are going to get a new yorkie puppy , then their is so much more to be concerned with. If you have a friend or family member to come in a few times when you are away to make sure your puppy is fine and give your puppy human contact then that should be ok. Place the puppy in a Ex pen Do not let the puppy have free rein over your place. She or he will be too young, and this could be dangerous. |
Jovi and I get up at 4am - she goes outside, eats, plays and then crashes at about 5am - while she crashes i get ready for work, then I take her for a walk and about 6:30 put her in her pen and leave for work. My neighbor stops in and lets her out and plays with her before she goes to work at about 10:30am. I get home at 3:30 and we spend the evening hanging out. Jovi is 18weeks old and we've been doing this since she was 9 weeks old - It's okay to leave them no Mommy guilt allowed. They will be fine as long as you keep them in a safe place.:p |
I am going back to work on Monday and I am a wreck. Doggie daycares are so expensive. I guess I will just deal with it. She has a large playpen so there is room for food, bed, pee pad. I just hate knowing she will be locked up all day. I would love to have a play mate for her but my husband says we can't buy another dog. I am sure all will be fine and she will still be spoiled probably more now. lol |
we leave for work at about 8 in the morning, make sure millie has her bed, pee pad, toys, water, biscuits and food and maybe a chewie (which she just buries anywhere!) we leave her free in the living room on her own as our other two dogs are two big to be left with her incase they snap at her as they are all protective of food/beds/toys. my dad comes home from work about 2 o clock in the afternoon and is with her all day then and she loves it, she jumps up on the the arm of the sofa and shows her belly to us and sqeaks until we kiss her belly, she gives us fantastic little welcome homes. shes fine with being left alone as long as shes got her bed and toys to keep her occupied, shes only had a few lil accidents on the carpet but nothing more, shes never chewed anything or ruined anything. i used to leave her with my nan when she was a puppy whilst i was at work as she was so young, but for short periods of time (an hour or two) when i popped out i would leave her in her crate but started leaving her alone in the living room when she was nearly 10 months old good luck!! |
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Also- you could send her to daycare only once a week- would cut down a lot on the cost, but give her something interesting to do in the middle of the week to break up the routine. |
I have thought about that. Maybe send her 1 or 2 days a week. I work in retail so my hours change. My granddaughter is going to babysit on the weekends so I shall request those days to work and then it will only be 2 or 3 days during the week to deal with |
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She will be fine when you go back to work- it will be 1000X harder on you :D |
I had the same problem and worries about leaving my little man during the day. He goes to daycare twice a week where he has a best friend named Maverick. But $32 per week is expensive. I have a small tile area where I gate him the other days. I leave him with his bed, his monkey, water and a potty pad. I would like to find bigger gates so I can gate him in the kitchen. ( the doorways are too wide for my gates) Then he could look out the back door...but for now this works. I wonder if he will ever be able to stay home alone and wander the house!:D |
Brandi has free roam of the house. She stays home alone for up to 9 hours a day but for only two days in a row as I work from home every Wednesday. To be honest with you, I think she prefers her me time because whenever i work from home she doesn't get any sleep because she's so busy following me around. I swear sometimes she gives me look like "Can't you just sit still for a few hours while i get in a nap...geeeze ''. The other thing too is if you are nervous, you can always setup a webcam to monitor her. That's what I did when I first got Brandi. I wanted to make sure she didn't have separation anxiety. This went on for about a year. Once she was potty pad trained, I begin to give her more excess to the house while I wasn't there. Now she has full access with maybe an accident (usually my fault...forgetting to change potty pads or something like that) once every few weeks or so. I don't use the webcam anymore because she has run of the house. I used it mainly when she was confined to her ex-pen while I was at work. |
I am just going to have to work it out. I have ordered a large xpen that is bigger than her playpen. I will put her crate, toys and pee pad in there as well. I went shopping for doggie day cares today. The one I went to the dogs are out all day playing in the play room with a nap time. The problem was the small dog side the dogs were huge compared to Abby and she was shaking so bad just looking at them. The other one she would hear and see dogs but never have contact which I felt better about but she would be in a pen 90 percent of the day. I have one more to look at maybe the third will be a charm. She will only go 1 or 2 times per week since that is all I will be able to afford. |
Nancy, with the daycare that is all open play with nap time, ask the staff if they separate the bigger dogs from the smaller ones. That's how they do it at our daycare. Moses was scared and shook really bad when I first started taking him to daycare. He whimpered and crawled under the chairs to get away. But after 3 months, twice a week, he loves it and now jumps out of the car and races to the door every time we go! He still cowers when the bigger dogs surround him, but the staff is right there to whisk him away! So don't discount the free roam daycare! Moses spent many a day behind the reception desk until he got used to it. You can also check to see if the daycares have a facebook page. You can "like" their page, then message some of the other "friends" to ask them about their experience with the daycare. Good luck! |
Thanks for all the info. Yes they did separate the dogs, but there were no toy dogs there. Their small dogs were a lot bigger than Abby. I like the idea that they are not caged all day but I wish they had what I call small dogs. lol |
ZoE has had the run of the house since she was 20 weeks old. I've arranged my furniture so she has a perch to look out the front & back windows to see outside. I feed her and play with her before I leave in the morning, after putting down fresh pee pads & water. She does really well by herself. |
Do you worry that Zoe will potty in the house as well as on the potty pad? I thought Moses was doing so well until I found a spot on the bathroom tile where he pottied. It's a spot where I WAS putting a potty pad while gating him, but quit using that area coz he was missing the pad. I wonder if I didn't get the smell out and he thought he could go there. So I would worry that he was using the pad, but also was going somewhere else in the house while I am gone to work. Potty training ismso maddening! |
My Lola is alone from 8:30 until 9:30, but I pop back every lunchtime apart from Wednesday to let her out for a wee-wee. I bought her 'Kong' boredom breakers, which you fill with treats, and I hide little bits of carrot (her favourite treat, my weird little doggie) around the room which she likes to crunch and chew on. Most dogs are fine alone for a few hours at a time. They will usually cry for a little bit at the start, but only for about half and hour until they realise no-ones home and they fall asleep. I recommend puppy training pads (piddle-pads :D) to put down when you are gone though, to prevent an accident if she really needs to go but there's no-one to let her out. Alternatively, if you have a secure garden you can get a cat flap for him/her to pop out of when they need a wee-wee! :D xxx |
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