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06-17-2006, 08:40 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Overland Park, KS
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| Refuses to "go"!!! We just got our 5 month old Yorkie, Brutus, on Tuesday evening. We got him from a pet store where he's been in a kennel all his life and has been able to relieve himself whenever he wants. I really want to train him to go outside. We keep him in a crate over night and when we are gone during the day. I take him outside first thing when I get up in the morning, when I come home for lunch during the day, and when I get home from work in the evening. The problem is that he is so excited to be outside that he won't relieve himself while out there!! I'm really clueless as to what I can do to make him realize he needs to go while outside. I even kept him outside for an hour last night and he never went!! Any ideas?? Please help!!! |
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06-17-2006, 10:54 AM | #2 |
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| We got Penny at 5 mos., also, and she wasn't trained in the least bit. For us, it was a waiting game outside. We would walk her up and down the block until she went, praising and treating her immediately, and eventually she figured it out. We made going outside sound like something fun by raising the pitch of our voices when we let her out of the crate and getting all excited ourselves about the idea. It sounds like you are on the same schedule we were. It just takes time and patience. Your baby spent 5 mos. in a kennel, and it's going to take awhile for him to get used to the idea that his new life involves time out of the kennel. |
06-20-2006, 10:18 AM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Alabama
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| I don't know if this will work but its just a suggestion. I'm guessing your pup actually goes in the crate. Maybe you can put a towel or small blanket or something in there and maybe he will go on it. Then each time you go out you can take the towel outside and set it on the grass maybe he will smell it and go on it or grass around it. Keep taking him to the same place with the towel then after he has gone a few times maybe the area will small like it and you can quit taking the towel. Just an idea don't know if it will work or not. I read once that you are training them to go outside praise them for even doing something that seems like he's going to go. Like if he is circling a little bit or is smelling out a place to go. Then you've let them know its ok to go there. It worked for us but we weren't in the same situation as you, with the pet store/crate thing, so I don't know if it will help you. Good luck, I'm sure he'll come around soon enough.
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06-20-2006, 10:22 AM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Alabama
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| Oh and MissPenny mentioned waiting game....Maybe on the weekend you can spend all day outside and when he goes, because he is bound to go eventually, praise the heck out of him. I will say that our breeders had been using pads so Reagan wasn't so sure about going outside either. We got her on a Thursday, she didn't go potty outside at all on Friday, then Saturday we went down to my in-laws and were outside all day so she just eventually went and when we praised the heck out of her she learned that she could go outside.
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