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12-10-2012, 09:15 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Reading, MA
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| Previously pee pad trained yorkie is peeing all over house Hi all, well I am back for some more advice from the experts here. My dog is just about 17 months old and WAS totally pee pad trained. She would also pee outside when we walked. She is now peeing on my rugs. I have carpeting throughout my house. She pees, of course, in certain spots. I will come home from work and there will be wet spots on my carpet. She has pee pads in 2 places and she knows that is where she is supposed to go. I allow her the living room and kitchen when I am at work. She has had this arrangement since she was about 10 months old and it has been fine until now. When I am home, she basically follows me around. Today, she actually peed on the carpet right in front of me. I blocked her off in the kitchen and finished getting ready. I let her out of the kitchen and she immediately went to the OTHER place where she pees and peed there in front of me again! I am at my wits end here. I would also like to point out that I had the caprets cleaned and it seems like that is about the time this started and has just gotten worse and worse. It started out that she would do an "excited" pee when I came home from work and progressed to what it has become now. She also peed on my throw rugs in the bathroom. I didn't even KNOW it until I picked them up and saw stains on the back. I also have changed pee pad brands a bunch of times to try and find ones that don't "track" pee. I have found a brand that I am going to stick to now. Could this changing brands be part of the problem?? Anyway, what do I do? Do I lock her back up in the kitchen when I go to work? I hate to do this to her because she was miserable in there when I was first training her and is so much happier when she can sit on the couch and look out the windows. And what do I do when I AM home. I am always throwing her ball around for her to chase so she can get exercise since it is cold and we can't walk as much. If I have to confine her all the time, she won't get any exercise. I thought about just putting pee pads where she is peeing on the rugs, but I don't know if that is a good idea either. And I do clean up the pee right away with Nature's Miracle but it obviously isn't working because she goes right back to the same spot. Please help!!! |
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12-10-2012, 11:20 AM | #2 |
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| Did you check her checked out for a possible urinary tract infection, or maybe a kidney issue ?
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12-10-2012, 11:25 AM | #3 |
Zachary's Mom Donating Member | My male Japanese Chin, Yumble, does this sometimes. It so far has been due to Urinary Tract Infections. For some reason he seems to get them a lot. I don't know what causes it for sure but I also have this problem and am on a low dosage antibiotic to keep if from happening. We have pads in the bedroom and now have one in the living room. Don't like having one in the lr but it is better than cleaning up pee. I would take him in for a checkup or if you vet will do it, just have them check a urine sample for an infection. Louise |
12-10-2012, 11:30 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | I would honestly consider keeping her confined to a room of the house while you are away at work again. That would be the only way that you would be able to supervise her enough to know that she will not be peeing all through your house while you are away. When you are home I would just pay close attention to her for a couple of weeks. Treat her like a puppy that you're potty training. Keep her with you and start making scheduled visits to the potty pads when you're home. If she goes anywhere else in the house, quickly correct her. She will learn in time. I'm sure she probably started peeing around the house while you were gone at work. If that is the case than no one was there to correct her for her behavior and show her that is not okay. Yorkies are a harder breed to potty train, and need absolute consistency (sometimes even well into their first year). I know it must be very frustrating right now, but if she does not have some kind of infection, and this is just her peeing where ever she wants than I think that would be the best approach as to how to fix this problem. |
12-10-2012, 11:53 AM | #5 |
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| I do have a vet apt. at the end of December for her booster shot (this is the last one she is getting!!) I did think about urinary tract infections, etc. But everything I read about the UTI's is that her pee would smell or look different, she would have trouble peeing, etc. None of this is the case. Her pee doesn't even smell - THANK GOD - she drinks a lot of water because she is NEVER still, constantly running around playing. SO, can she have a UTI with no obvious symptoms? It just seems like she has decided that everything is now her toilet, including the pee pads. I fear I am going to have to block her off in the kitchen and start all over with her! |
12-10-2012, 12:00 PM | #6 |
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| I would get her into a vet before the end of the month. And I would rule out physical causes before I assume its a behaviour issue. Frequent drinking and urination can be a sign of illness...and if you have just had your carpets cleaned (before this started), it might also be a reaction to the commercial cleanser that the carpet cleaning company used. Better to be sure than to treat her as if its a behaviour issue when she can't help herself. |
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