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05-28-2007, 09:23 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Posts: 37
| New puppy owner, a few questions Sorry in advance if this is too long Hi all, I have a 15-week-old Morkie (maltese/yorkie). I've had him for a week, and so far he is doing well, but there are a few issues that I want to nip in the bud before they become a habit. 1. For two days, he cried at night in his kennel, but once I started completely ignoring him and isolated him, he learned not to be so vocal. However, today he was whining a lot when I put him in his kennel. I never keep him there for more than 2 hours at a time because I work from home. However, today we had some houseguests and he was just being BAD. He went nuts with the crying and barking today and finally he's gone to sleep! Is there anything else I can do besides ignore it? I've tried making sudden loud noises to get him to stop, but he just growls and barks at the noise. 2. POTTY TRAINING. After less than a week, he's good with his schedule. However, I've noticed something -- I have not given him much chance to make a mistake. You see, until the middle of this fall, I am living with my parents and they don't want the pup to run free of the house and they certainly dont want him to potty inside on accident. So, when I play with him, I'm usually outside with him or playing with him on my bed. He does not potty in his kennel or on my bed. But, a couple of times I had him in the kitchen, he made a mistake each time. Otherwise, if I take him out to potty every 2 hours during the day, he goes immediately. My question is: What do I do in the mean time before I move out? My main concern is that while he knows that outside means potty time, he doesn't seem to understand that outside is the ONLY place he's allowed to potty. I have a bell hanging from the back door, but I think he's afraid of it. I walk him from my bedroom to the back door, and once he gets to the back door, he stops and tries to turn away. He won't go toward the bell for anything (i even tried peanut butter on the bell). I have to nudge his nose to the bell to ring it. He is afraid of the door until I actually open the door. He does well with holding it in the kennel, but once he's out, how will he let me know when he needs to potty? |
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05-29-2007, 04:02 AM | #2 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: PENNSYLVANIA
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| My best advice with the crying in the kennel worked wonders for my yorkie Vinnie. He cried the first two nights and drove me crazy, and of course I felt horrible, until someone told me to wash a t-shirt, then wear it around after it was clean so it would adopt my smell and wrap it around a water bottle so at night he would be warm and be able to smell me and perhaps even think it was me. Honestly, it worked wonders, and after about 2 months, i believe, although it's hard to remember, he was used to our routine and pretty confident we'd still be there in the morning so he was fine with just going to bed without it. Congratlulations on your puppy and I hope this works, good luck! |
05-29-2007, 04:15 AM | #3 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: PENNSYLVANIA
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| As for potty training, small dogs are notoriously hard to train. They have smaller bladders and normally come to use when their kidneys aren't fully developed. Expect mistakes, they will happen, they're just babies and they're not human. As I learned, they don't understand so when they make a mistake, it's only a mistake to us, because they don't know better, it's our job to teach them. I've had Vinnie on pee pads, he's just shy of 7 months old, while we are in an apartment because there are lots of big nasty dogs around us. Now that we're about a month away from moving into a house we're starting with the outside training. If we would tell Vinnie to "pee on the pad" he would, which was our first step. Then we started getting him used to the leash and just being outside, he naturally would pee outside when we took him so we praised the heck out of him. We got him used to the word "outside" and now I won't take him out unless he gives me a little bark when I ask him if he wants to go "pee outside". That is so he gets used to telling us he wants to go outside, then we tell him to "pee outside" once he's out and he practically performs on command. I'm sure you could substitute the bell for the little bark! Good Luck! |
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