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03-23-2016, 09:58 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Weymouth, Dorset, U.K
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| Night time toilet troubles with seven month old Hi everyone, Thanks for allowing me to join your group. I know how special and specific yorkies can be from 16 years with my beloved Loki so I thought I would join a Yorkie based forum to get some advice with my newest one Teddy will be seven months on 1 April and he is a joy. He is very confident and outgoing and we love him very much, great with kids and other animals; perfect every way except one… Toilet problems. Now Teddy is fantastic at asking to go out during the day and we never have any accidents. I can happily pop out for 3/4 hours to go shopping and run some errands and I come home and the house is just as I left it. He doesn't chew anything, he doesn't pee and he doesn't poop. He is fed every morning around 9/10 AM, I tried to take him out for walk in the afternoon and he poops and he is then fed approximately 5PM and he then goes out for a walk with my husband between 8/9 PM and does a poop on this walk. Me and my husband normally head upstairs anywhere from 9:30 PM to 11 PM depending on how tired we are and Teddy has always been kept downstairs in our lounge as for the time being we don't want to share our room with him so we can retain our relationship and intimacy blah blah blah. He has been dry through the day for ages but he's never quite got the hang of not toileting through the night and whilst he stopped peeing and pooping quite a while ago, the pooping seems to have come back. It was every 3/4 days that we would find one and he would get this stern "no" and put out in the garden and he would get praise if we came down and there was nothing. However for the last five days he has pooped on our floor every evening and I'm not really sure how to tackle this? When we come down in the morning on a night when he hasn't pooped he is full of beans, happy to CS and runs upstairs and jumped on the bed. On the mornings when he has toileted, he is very quiet and skulks about because he knows that we're not going to be happy. He hasn't been crated so I don't really want to start doing that now in case it upsets him. I don't know whether I should maybe be feeding him earlier or later or whether to come downstairs and let him out again just before bed but certainly until he doesn't toilet during the night, I'm not prepared to allow him upstairs. By this age my old Yorkie had stopped Toileting on the floor and only in the garden so it's driving me crackers that I cannot stop Teddy from doing this. I know that Yorkshire Terriers can be difficult little so-and-so's to train and break habits but I would be very interested to get anyone's feedback on how I could possibly tackle this? Xx |
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03-24-2016, 08:11 AM | #2 |
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| Not sure if I got your schedule right, but I read that you feed at 9-10amIf my understanding is correct, then does that mean Teddy only has a chance to pee/poo twice a day? If you're sleeping by 9:30pm and not waking until 9am, that's 12 hours of holding in his potty! And if he doesn't get walked in the afternoon, whatever time that may be, that's 12+ hours. Do you also have pee pads for him for indoor potty? Or maybe I read your post wrong... General rule of thumb for puppies is that they can hold one hour for every month they are old. So at 7 months, Teddy can probably hold 7 hours to 8 hours in between potty breaks. My schedule differs from yours slightly but Scottie hasn't had an accident in months and he's outdoor potty trained. He's fed twice a day and walked three times a day. Basically, he has his potty-walks before his meals and potty-walks before bedtime. potty walk at 6:30am
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03-24-2016, 08:54 AM | #3 | |
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Sorry if it was a bit confusing, I was getting myself confused writing if I'm honest 😖 So we come down in the morning about 8 AM and Teddy is let out straight away. He is then given his breakfast about 9 AM but it can sometimes take him up to an hour to slowly eat it. I let him out in the day as often as he asks to go out but as far as I'm aware he only has a poop (first thing in the morning if he hasn't done overnight), he does one in the afternoon about 3 PM and this is either on a walk or in the garden. Then is given his dinner about 5 PM and he goes out for a walk with my husband at approximately 8 PM and has a poop on this walk. Me and my husband go up at the earliest 9:30 PM but in the last few days we have been going up closer to 10:30 PM – 11 PM and Teddy is always let out last thing before we go to bed. So the longest time he is probably left overnight would be 10.5 hours and the shortest time is about nine hours? We haven't found any traces of your rain and it's only a poop during the night? He doesn't cry during the night to be let out to the toilet at all when we are asleep but I guess maybe he's not able to hold long enough? So in total he is having three poops a day; One of those sometimes being over night, if not, its first thing in the morning when he is left out? Does that make more sense? x | |
03-24-2016, 08:56 AM | #4 | |
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