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Training a 3-yr old male Yorkie My Yorkie is a rescue. He's 3-4 years old as far as the vet can tell us. He was trained pretty well when we first took him in but over the past 6 months he's been peeing everywhere! We take him out frequently all times of the day and he pees and poops outside. I don't think it's as much an issue of not going out enough as it is a marking issue. He has peed on every door jamb, table leg, chair leg, and corner in the house. We never see him doing it. I just keep finding it. It's driving me crazy and I don't know how to stop it. I've tried cayenne and that didn't help at all. We're planning to have him neutered soon. Any suggestions? |
I had my JoJo neutered and I still find little accidents. My Teddy, when he was with us had a marking problem. Just clean it up and thank God he is healthy. That's what I did after yelling, "Who did that? What is going on around here? Bad dog!" I hope you get your Yorkie trained. Males are pretty hard. Right now JoJo is chewing on my placement. That is why God made them cute. It is hard to yell at them! If all else fails get a belly band and wrap that sucker around his belly. That will stop the pee and keep your home clean. I threatened to do that every time I see pee! |
Hi and welcome. Do you have other dogs in the house? I would put him in his ex pen and clean everything very well with enzyme cleaner. I would still go back to housebreaking. Good book "How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days" Is very helpful. And I would invest in a belly band Also |
Mine is almost 4 and still has a marking problem. I bought belly bands to use when visiting family and he follows me everywhere when I'm home, but I still occasionally find "accidents". I'm sure they aren't accidental, just his stubbornness when it comes to doing what he knows is right, because he will look so guilty until the spot is cleaned up, then he's all happy like it never happened.:( And yes, he was fixed when he was 6 months old. |
I would confine him in a crate or small pen when I couldn't be in the room to watch him. Clean the peed-on areas with the special biological cleaner and then you will just have to be certain he can't re-mark until he's better housebroken after the neuter. I think it might take a few months before a lot of the marking urge will leave him after that so you will just have to keep taking him out very, very frequently to get the message across that he will always have ready, frequent access for "going" outside, watching him very closely when he is out of his crate/pen to prevent marking, confine him to his crate/pen when you leave the room or home and hope that in time he will get the idea that the better place to mark is outside for all the world to enjoy his wonderful scent. But I suspect that since he's marked so much all over the house, he will have to be closely monitored for repeat performances for at least another year or so until the urge and his memory/scent of where he should re-mark are lessened and hopefully gone altogether. |
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