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04-13-2015, 05:50 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2010 Location: Central Texas
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| Advice for housebreaking an older yorkie My Yorkie is about 4 years old. I have never been able to fully housebreak her. I can take her outside and an hour later she will still go in the house. I keep my back door open half the time and she still will go in the living room where the door is wide open and go in there. I leave her out all day long when I am at work (just come home at lunch to let her out) and I do not believe she goes anywhere (I have wood floors). As soon as I get home though, even though I let her out immediately, she still comes and goes in the house several times. It isn't a matter of her not knowing, she just refuses to go outside unless I walk her out there and even then she goes multiple times. She also tends to go more on carpet, like the rug in my living room or sneaks off to my bedroom, She is my second Yorkie. The first I never had a day of trouble with, but I was able to crate train her. I was never able to do crate train this one because of severe anxiety issues when placed in a crate. Other than tying her to me (which honestly is not realistic), any ideas on how to break her? I am going to try and start putting a dog gate back up again, which may help some. I am at the point where I am thinking she is to the age I will never be able to break her. |
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05-11-2015, 05:42 PM | #2 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Portland Maine
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| Maggie won't really go in the yard either, only on walks. I think maybe trying the gate and putting her in the bathroom or somewhere easy to clean is a good idea. Crate training works for MOST dogs because they don't want to mess in their "home". The idea is eventually for your house to be her "crate" and the outdoors to be the place to potty. Maybe seeing she is in the yard all day, she thinks of that as her "home" and the indoors as a place to potty. I got Maggie at 4 also, and couldn't crate her, and she had messes constantly. And its only been in the last month and a half that she has been consistantly going outside and not on the floor. I can't really say what finally made it click for her except we just kept up on the routine and praised the heck out of her when she went in the grass (my neighbors prob think i am nuts, we just moved in feb, lol).
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05-13-2015, 05:45 PM | #3 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2015 Location: Decatur, Indiana
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| i'm in the same boat! My yorkie will be 9 in August, and we have issues with him peeing in the house as well. When we got him as a baby, he was litter box trained, so we carried that over and he is trained to use the pee pad when no one is home or in the middle of the night. It is located in the laundry room, same place as his food and water, and he does reall well with it....sometimes. He is spoiled so if there are over three (yes..three) spots on it, he refuses to use it and will go on the rug or on the floor right next to it. The rug is for our entrance into the house from the garage, so it needs to be there. The funny thing is, we have a brown one and a pink one. The pink one he will not pee on as often, but the brown one he will use constantly! He still poops in the house randomly as well. Sometimes he will come in from outside and go in the house! It drives us nuts! I am thinking he will never be trained now that he is so old we must have done something wrong with this one. |
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