New here - Bell training?
 

I'm a new member. I've not gotten my Yorkie yet, but expect her in about a month. I'm trying to think through the different views on housetraining, and reading all I can.

Several of you have mentioned bell training. This sounds great!! Please tell me more!!

Carla

Take your pet out after naps, food and play. Don't expect a puppy to be trained until about 8 months or so. Lower your voice and repeat the same command, potty now or whatever. Lift up your voice with praise and a treat when they finish. I took mine out every 45 mins when I first got them, but I am retired so I could do that. Go to the same spot in the yard. They will get it. I'm not a fan of the pet pad but some people testify to their worth. The main thing is patience and consistency. I said "potty NOW" so many times my husband just about killed me it got on his nerves so badly. Now, at age 3, they will do just that, potty on command, NOW.

LOL! I have said if I had a nickel for every time I said, "go potty" I would be a millionaire. But you know what, both of my boys will "go potty" when I say it. My Rexy never has accidents in the house, but Rowdy is not neutered and he marks sometimes - but mostly just little sprinkles and it comes and goes :rolleyes: Anyway, both my boys did very well with us taking them out about every 30 minutes. And my Rexy always "went" when I put him on grass - it was the cutest thing - when his feet hit the grass, he went potty. Of course, he also "went potty" in the house before he figured out he was supposed to potty ONLY outside. It didn't take long though!

Good luck.

I am new to this site today!! I have had my little "Lily" (Yorkie Puppy) for 2 weeks now and she was born March 12th. so she is just a little over 11 weeks old. I made the mistake of letting her sleep with me and not in her "crate" that she cried in!!lol She did great like that until she didn't want to sleep all night anymore and she wanted to play in the middle of the night!! I put her in her crate last night and she cried but not as bad as I thought it would be. She is very stubborn and just as cute as she is stubborn so it's hard to make her be confined when she cries!!lol I have a "play pen yard" for her outside to go potty so she can't run from me so easy because our yard is not fenced in and she doesn't listen yet at all. She is doing pretty good with going outside to potty but it is constant watching her and like everyone says .. I take her out about every 45 minutes to an hour. I need to know if it is best to divide her wire cage so she can't move around and go to the bathroom at one end and sleep in the other at night or to leave the front part empty and just put something for her to lay on in the back of it and let her potty in the night if she has to in the front?? I can't put newspaper in there because she shreds that faster than I can get out of the shower!! Pee Pads she takes in her teeth and shakes them like a "toy"!! She only weighs aoubt 2-1/2 lbs. and her mommy weighs about 5lbs. and so did her daddy so I think she will be a nice size little girl. She eats real good and seems healthy.
I don't know much about "Yorkie's" at all ... I had a teacup poodle for 19 yrs. and she was the greatest!! I don't remember her being this hard headed!!lol
Any help that anyone can give me I truely appreciate!! What kind of shampoo do you all use and how often can I bath her? Her coat seems real good right now. I try to brush her every day but she is pretty wild with all that too and I have bathed her once and she hated the hair dryer!!lol Oh well it is getting warmer out so maybe she will do better with all that too soon!!
Thanks to you all.......
Karen

Roscoe is now 14 weeks and he is trained to go outside we first tried him on the pads and every accident we had we would give him a stern NO and put him on his pad......but after a week of accidents everywhere I decided to take him outside.......after everytime he went outside we would make a huge deal clapping and jumping and saying good boy and giving him a treat right away.........we would make sure he knew it was a big deal.........and now he goes to the door and jumps at his leash (which hangs at the door).........we still have pee pee accidents cause he doesn't bark so he may be at the door and we don't hear him...........try to make a big ordeal out of him when he goes outside.........good luck

Hey there. Welcome to YT. I have a rescue that I believe originated from an Amish Mill in PA. She had been abused etc. Trust me the potty training has nothing to do with where they came from. Yorkies by nature are hard to train. I should say MOST Yorkies as there are exceptions to the rule. I also had Newman, who passed away a year this August at 10 yrs. old. He came from a small puppy mill operation and was the easiest to train and NEVER did a thing in the house. Consistency is what you need. Start by taking him out every half hour or so and using one word as a command such as the word make. When he goes, make a big deal out of it and use a reward I call mine a cookie. So my girls know when they make they get cookie. When training, I would say Make Make Make and keep saying that word over and over, until they went. When they went I'd say good girl, and praise them and then say cookie cookie and give them a treat. It worked great and within a few days they knew the routine, although they still did have accidents. Try the every half hour, then do every hour, and then maybe every two hours until you learn his cycle. Take him directly outside after he eats or plays etc. It's a long process and could take a year or more but it's worth the troulbe. They are GREAT dogs and very smart.

Elaine

Izzy,
Thanks for your help. I am doing the same thing with "Lily" right now going outside. She is little younger so I have to be patient I know!! She is getting better but when it is wet out in the mornings or raining I have a hard time getting her to stay out long enough to do anything!! I thought about trying the "washable pads" for inside until she gets broke?? She shreds newspaper and shakes the puppy pads like a toy!!lol I don't want to "pad train" her though and confuse her at this point?? Any advice out there on doing "both ways"??? I am ready to try ANYTHING!!
Thanks so much!!!

haha Roscoe used to do the same thing with the pads.....grab them and run around the house......I just had to realize it wasn't his fault he was having accidents....it was our fault for not taking him out often/long enough......I find that his bladder is so little he pees ever 30-45 minuts so I make sure me or my gf take him out and keep him out till he does something.......Roscoe also hates the rain and chooses to do his business directly on the sidewalk instead of the wet grass............but I agree with you...I feel they get too confused trying to learn both.

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I too think I rescued Aiden from a house where he and all the other pups went and ate whatever, but I'm being very carfull,and crating him is working well. He goes only on his pee pad in the crate now. He still goes on the floors,but It's getting less and less. I have him on the best routine I can,seeing as though we're at work/school from 7am until 2:30 when my son is home. The poor little guy..You let him out and he's so happy to see you,but you can't even speak to him or pick him up of he'll pee all over you!! LOL I love him so much, that I figure he's gonna have good days and bad,and he's ony 4 mo. DONT GIVE UP<AND BE CONSISTANT!!!! I find that if I let him out the same door every time,then he goes in the same area,it is better. And when he goes PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE!! Good Luck:D

Hi. We got Anna in March. She was 4 months old at the time. We were told she was going outside. She didn't know what outside was. I called the breeder, and she assured me she was going outside. She didn't know what a pee pad was. She held it for 16 hours when we first got her because she didn't know where to go. I felt so bad for her. Finally, we figured out she was most comfortable going in her crate, and probably had been spending most of her time crated, regardless what we had been told. Long story short, we started over with pee pads. Every 2 hours we would gate her in the kitchen with a pad, tell her to go and wait. It worked better if we left the room. We would make over her like crazy when she got it. If she didn't go, I'd wait 15 min., put her back in the kitchen on the pad, and tell her to "go potty." We also started charting when she went and where. She picked it up pretty quickly.( a couple of weeks) She still wouldn't go outside. She started going on the deck, and in the last month or so has started going in the yard. She still prefers to poop on the pad, but has started pooping outside too!!!! It just took us figuring out what her experience had been and starting over.

Did I understand you right that "you put a pee pad in the crate"?? I tried to divide the crate and just put her in the front part w/enough room to stand and turn around?? That didn't work....she cried all night!! Next night I took divider out and put a towel (she tears up pee pads & newspaper) in the front of the crate and made her a little pillow bed in the back of the crate. She goes on that towel even if I get up in the night and take her out 2 or 3 times?? I don't know if I am doing the right thing or not?? She cries horrible in that crate still and I don't know if she is crying to go out to potty or just crying to get OUT?? Probably both but I thought if I at least put something in the front she will go on it and not lay in it?? She is 12 weeks old and I have had her 3 weeks!! I am getting very frustrated!!lol I can't believe she screams and cries when she is confined in any way!! She HATES it!!lol She will lay in her little plastic cage in the daytime but the door has to be OPEN!! If I close that door she wakes up and throws a fit!!lol She is the cutest baby and I love her to death but she is getting the best of me!!ANY SUGGESTIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!
"Lily's mommy"

We played this game too. Our Tucker came from a couple who didn't have time for him because the wife had cancer. They left him in his crate all the time and so he had no choice but to pee and poo in his crate. After cleaning up a million messes we devised a weird but successful system. We bought washable pee pads from Little Bit (a YT member) and placed one under a laundry basket. That way if he chose to use the potty it was absorbed and not so hard to clean up and he could get away from it. It wasn't good for his skin to be bathed EVERY day! After a month or so of this he started to learn that the pad was the place for poo and pee. We also had him start sleeping in the bed with us and that was extremely helpful because he didn't want to pee on the blankets. We had about 4 accidents in the bed, but we are accident free in bed and out now and he is 8 1/2 months old. It took 3 1/2 months to get him completely trained, but it was completely worth it. I think we got lucky because he took 3.5 and Lexie took 1 month to become completely potty trained. If you have any other questions feel free to pm me! Good luck!!!

Ignore ignore ignore!!! It might be really annoying to hear your furbby crying & whining, but after a few days she will get used to being in there & she will stop with the whining & crying. Of course, this is after the fact that you have taken her outside to go potty. If she doesn't go potty when you take her out of the crate, just put her back in there & let her bark & whine & cry all that she wants. Don't take her out of there until she stops complaining, because if you do she will learn that crying & whining equals getting out of the crate. Of course, please do take her out every hour to go potty, but other than that, don't let her out if she is whining & crying. I made the mistake of taking Bear out of his xpen when he was whining & crying & now we are paying for it lol! He is getting better at being in there though, but let me tel you, you do not want that bad habit to start! Good luck!

Amy

Amy,
Bear is so cute!! He's so tiny!!lol So do you think I need to take her outside every hour during then NIGHT out of her crate?? I have a xyard outside that I take her to go potty out there and put her in that outside but she screams out there too!!lol She is just very stubborn little girl. She is 12 weeks old and I've had her 3 weeks tomorrow!!
Thanks!!
Karen

Good advice here. I also recommend the consistent training method. Takes lots and lots of time and patience. The supervision is the key. My Yorkie pup's feet never touched the floor if he did not perform outside. Also, I used a harness and retractable leash for walking him in the area that he was to use.

Lots of good luck! You can do it!