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03-29-2006, 10:54 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: California
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| First Puppy...Need Advice Hello everyone! Last week we brought Ginger home. She is a Yorkie/Pomeranian and is currently 9 and a half weeks old. We are following all the potty training rules and are still having such a difficult time training Ginger. We were told that she was potty pad trained when we got her. She has not gone once on the pad and prefers our carpet. I tried the training drops as well to no avail. We take her to the pad after meals, nap, awakening, and playing. She can never stay there. She runs away from the pad and it seems like she doesn't like us watching her go. I've tried blocking her in next to the pad, but she holds it until we let her out. We clean the places she goes with a solution that prevents them from coming back, but she just finds a different spot. When we catch her in the act, we pick her up and take her to the pad. My husband and I both work all day and leave her in the kitchen, which is also where we leave her pad at all times. We put her toys and crate, which she sleeps in at night, in there for her as well. She goes all over the floor and never on the pad. Lately, she has been tearing up her pad. A friend of mine suggested that we leave her in the crate all day long, but I don't know how I feel about that. I feel like we've tried everything and it just doesn't seem to work. Do we just need to be patient and consistent or are we doing something wrong? Could it be because I put her crate in there with her, she is now mistaking the kitchen as her den? Please help! I feel like I'm doing everything wrong.
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03-29-2006, 10:57 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | I didn't pee pad train, but I think you need to decrease the size of the area she stays in when you are not home. I'm sure someone who's successful pee pad trained will provide you with some helpful hints. Good luck....
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03-29-2006, 11:04 AM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Saskatchewan
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| I use the crate training method. You would not be able to leave her in a crate all day long. If you could get someone to come in during the day and take her out of the crate to eat, potty and play for awhile. Even at 9 1/2 wks old they are usually only in the crate about an hour. Our puppy is almost 5 months old and it is just in the last few weeks that he sleeps in his crate for 4 hours during the day. |
03-29-2006, 11:15 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 12K Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Council Bluffs Iowa
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| Welcome to YT. Where you can obsess about your yorkie and no one thiinks your crazy. 9 weeks is too young for them to understand much of anything. Keep trying but don't expect too much till 16 weeks. |
03-29-2006, 11:29 AM | #5 |
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| Since the puppy is only 9 weeks old I would not lose my patience yet! It could take alot longer than that! When I got Daisy she was doing the same thing that you are explaining! I used to put her potty pad in the bathroom and and close the door and just sit in their with her, until she would go on the pad! Then you praise, praise, praise! Eventually your puppy will get it! Just dont give up!
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03-29-2006, 11:31 AM | #6 |
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| try a wee pad holder. it works wonders... good luck and welcome
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03-29-2006, 11:47 AM | #7 |
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| darling..... a puppy isn't like a robot..... it's a puppy. Just like you don't expect a child to speak the first day... do you? You need to follow the training process for many months..... it's an ongoing process. A puppy can't possible be wee wee pad trained in 9 weeks. Maybe if it were confined to a very small area but if it is roaming around your carpet... then I'm sure you are not confining it. All different techniques works for training....... it's up to the owner to follow through. Pick a technique that suits your lifestyle and stick to it. You will do fine! They are really smart if you are smart at training them. My dogs are soooo well trained that all I have to do is say 'Potty' and they go to the wee wee pad. Ofcourse I am consistant and ALWAYS have the treats ready! Good LucK! |
03-29-2006, 11:55 AM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Chesapeake, VA
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| maybe try putting some wee wee on the pad...I don't pad train so don't know really. Crate training works well for me but I have help from the family and go home everyday at lunch time. |
03-29-2006, 12:01 PM | #9 |
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| I got kirby at 12 weeks and it took another 2 weeks......but.....my yorkie-poo took 4 months so you never know....just keep it up
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03-29-2006, 12:03 PM | #10 |
Donating YT 12K Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Council Bluffs Iowa
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| Ollie will be completely p pad drained shortly. I keep putting the pads where she wants to go, soon the entire house will be covered and VIOLA!!! she'll be trained. LOL |
03-29-2006, 01:54 PM | #11 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: California
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| Thanks everyone for your advice. I'm a first time pet owner and didn't know what to expect. I guess I am excepting too much too soon from my baby girl. I always heard that dogs, especially pups, require a lot of attention and boy, is that an understatement. It is so much work, but she is worth it all. My husband, who was against getting a small breed pup, is totally in love with Ginger. It took him about 2 seconds to cave. Any more advice about crate training? She currently sleeps through the night in her crate and we let her out for a couple of hours in the morning before we go to work. I come home during lunch to feed her. Is it too much if we put her in for 4 to 5 hours at a time?
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03-30-2006, 03:19 PM | #12 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Garner, NC
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| Puppy Training I have found that with my oldest Yorkie when we started housebreaking her, every time she messed in the floor I would tell her no and walk her to the door. I tied a bell on the door so every time I took her there I made her ring it and after about 2 weeks of doing this, she started ringing the bell and waitng instead of going on the floor. We resently just bought a baby boy and he was 9 weeks when we got him now he is 12 weeks and most of the time he will ring the bell, just be patient. |
03-30-2006, 03:46 PM | #13 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: central kali
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| I first started out crate training, it wrkd out grate. Kiroshi would hold it and in the morning when i let him out he would go on the pad. I soon began pee pad training and i have him in a k-9 keeper pen so he'd be in one area only and he had his bed in one area, food in one and pad in one area. He eventually caught on that the pad which has a scent is the area to go on. I did dab his pee on the pad to start off. It does take a while. Good luck w/that. |
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03-30-2006, 04:00 PM | #15 |
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| I like the crate training method personally! |
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