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02-22-2007, 12:04 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: pa
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| Potty Training Gracie is 4 months old and not doing well with potty training. Well let's put this another way, I am not doing well with potty training. When she came home at 8 weeks she was put in the kitchen with potty pads, crated when I left the house, and of course, slept with me at nighttime. When she first came home, she was very good about potty pads. As time went on, she was not happy being left by herself in the kitchen or in her crate. She chewed the plastic on the baby gate and made a nice hole for herself, and chewed threw her crate (it's a nylon crate with netting---adorable little thing in pink). I then put a board across the kitchen doorway to keep her in and she jumps the board and still gets out! Needless to stay, I have not been a very good Mom. She now has the run of the house and is not doing well with potty pads. My kitchen does not have a back door she must come through the dining room and living room to go outside. I don't really have a yard so I walk her on a leash. I have potty pads under my dining room table and one in the master bedroom and another bedroom. She was pretty good for a while but in the past week, she is totally disregarding the potty pads only while I am in the house. I am planning on putting in a slider and a side yard for her but until then what are your suggestions for daytime. Another obstacle....my Mom is 82 and lives with me. She suffers from dementia and I have a person that comes in the day to come for my Mom. When I gate Gracie in the kitchen, it is a real inconvenience! Your thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I love my little Gracie and want her to be potty trained so I can take her to visit family. I know I have not done her or myself any justice by giving her the run of the house. |
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02-22-2007, 12:08 PM | #2 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Have you thought of getting an xpen to confine her in. If you continue to give her the run of the house when she is not potty trained shes just gonna continue to potty in the house and develop bad habits that are going to be hard to break
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02-22-2007, 12:11 PM | #3 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: pa
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| Potty Training I honestly think she'll jump the xpen. She is something else when it comes to jumping and climbing and I fear she will hurt herself. |
02-22-2007, 12:15 PM | #4 |
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| Then get a big kennel. Some people on here have also made tops for the xpen I think using a twin fitted sheet. My Xpen was by precision and it was all metal there is no way she would chew through that
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02-22-2007, 01:06 PM | #5 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: San Bruno, California
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| When my Bubuu was younger she used to chew on our wood furnitures. We tried to crate train her but she just makes a whole mess inside. We have 4 dogs including bubuu and we didn't want her be in the pen with the rest of our dogs (1teacup pug, reg.pug and pekingese). But now she's a little grown up we let her be with the rest of the gang to play. Now she stops chewing our wood furnitures. We figured she gets really bored thats why she doest it. Maybe new toys from time to time will help.
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02-22-2007, 01:09 PM | #6 |
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