Again that was just MY two cents..not trying to argue...just trying to help the OP and support her fully so she can hopefully learn some new ways to train her dog and have a long life with him...and no I dont need to lighten up..

I have read TONS of peoples posts about the frustrations of housebreaking...its not the first time people have posted on this subject and I always offer hope and thoughts for the poster and so far all of the people who have posted their frustrations havent had to rehome and are loving owners who have gotten over the hurdle with housebreaking..I still see hope for this poster..

Dawn

Every breed has it's problems - housebreaking happens to be a big problem with Yorkies. Sadie is a year old and is 90% trained to potty pads. She still has "accidents", and she never has access to carpeted areas unless I am with her. I either keep the doors closed to those rooms or have a screen up to prevent her from going in them. Although she has been the most difficult dog I have ever had to housebreak, she certainly is the least destructive - unless you count an occasional paper towel shredding!!! She's also one of the most affectionate and loveable dogs I've ever had.

Maybe a big dog will be housebroken in 2 months - but big dogs also love to eat furniture, shoes, walls, etc!!! And let's face it, their poops and puddles are huge.

Hang in there!! :p :p

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iam sorry you are having such a rough time with pt, all three of mine still have an accident once in a while. i guess its someting you just get use to. my girl was easier to train then the boys, they still mark if they are left alone for to long. i really hope things get better for you so you can keep her:)

I agree to disagree. I am finished with this post, it is going nowhere!

I didn't read the whole thread, but the words "get rid of" really hit a nerve with me. I can't even say those words in the same sentence as Jake (my yorkie's name). Potty training any dog takes patience, time, effort, consistency and more patience. You have to be willing and ready to really work hard with the dog before you even get him/her. If you're not consistent, the dog becomes very confused. It's a commitment you have to make before the dog is even in your home.

It sounds like you want to keep the dog, but your fiance doesn't want her. I think it's unselfish of him to not try harder if he sees she makes you happy. Did you include him in the decision to get her since you're going to be spending the future with him? If so, then he should have known it was going to take alot of time and effort to potty train her. You said he thinks she's an overly expensive dog that he doesn't have patience for. I'm sure the dog picks up on his feelings, which probably adds to her confusion. If the two of you are fighting about her, I'm sure she picks up on that too. When you're in a relationship, you BOTH have to be willing to put forth some effort. If you're both not doing it, then that's not being consistent.

One thing, have you taken her to the vet to make sure she doesn't have a UTI? That's something that definitely should be checked.

In all honesty, I think you should try to rehome her. I'm sure someone right here on YT would be interested in her.

If I were in this situation, I think I'd keep the dog and rehome the fiance:D

WOW! What a thread. My two cents is...there probably is alot of stress in the home, and that won't help...I know how my husband was with our other two dogs...he didn't really want them, doesn't really like them, and it was tough with a capital T! He's much more tolerant of Mugzy, thank goodness, who at 6 months still is only about 1/2 trained. I also think once the wedding is over there will be alot less stress (I believe we all know how stressful wedding prep can be!), and alot more time to concentrate on potty training. If you work, can you get a reliable neighbor kid to come over once or twice a day to take your baby out to potty and play? I also agree that you should clean up the messes ASAP, not only for your furbaby's sake, but also to help keep your fiance/husband calmer. GOOD LUCK!

i am feeling your pain. we have two that is not trained yet. one 9months and the other 6 months. ohhhh my husband is at his wits end. my muffie took a year so this is how we look at it. but we don't stop, we cont try to train. it is very frustrating.
our carpet is distroyed. after they are all potty trained, we are going to have to replace all of it.
i wish i had some advise but i don't.

Well.......

I totally agree. Our Maltese was no problem to train. Max our Yorkie, we ended up ripping up the carpet & putting tile down. He now goes every time on the pee pads. We have had him since Jan & he is 7 months. But for us, it was keeping Max & getting rid of the carpet.

I think this thread has taken on a life of its own. Has anyone even noticed that the original poster is no longer posting?:confused:

I said i was finished but i just have to share this with all of you. I had a finance and we went together for 4 years, he hated my yorkies, and my yorkies hated him. Their names were Sugar and Spice, litter mates that i treated my self to when my husky died. Every time he left his clothes on the floor they would pee on them, they would growl when he came home from work, they would pee outside all the time for me, and when he came home they would pee all over the house. When the auguring got bad, i moved out, and would not all him to come into my house, as it was our house, mine, Sugar and Spices, and i did not want their safe haven disturbed.

He got pretty upset about us not being able to be together, so he asked me to marry him, and i loved this man, when he asked he said their is one condition and that is you re home your yorkies or better yet put them to sleep so you don't have to worry about them.

Well i started crying, and he said are you crying because you are so happy that i asked you to marry me, and i said no, i am crying because our relationship is over, I can always find another man, but my yorkies are my kids and they will be with me till the day i die. I have never had one regret, and married a man that loves my yorkies as much as i do, he will even pick up a poop, and not get mad at them. He is just the best, he helps me with all my dogs, does their laundry, and always will get the goats milk i feed the babies. If i am out of milk, he will run to the store for me and get it. I have never looked back, and found the most wonderful man to share my life with and the love of my life my yorkies. They are about 99.9 % potty paper trained, but mostly go outside, i have the doors open so they can go on the decks on in their yard. My life is good. It would have been H--- had i married that selfish, selfish man, if a man really loves you, he lets you to have the things you love, and visa versa.

You are right this thread has taken a life all of it's own.

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I totally agree, the guy would definitely go!! You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats animals.

LOL! I noticed :rolleyes:

Laurabelle, if you're out there - do you have an area, the kitchen maybe, in your house that has no carpet? I have had to put xpens all around my front room with white carpet :eek: It doesn't look very attractive! But pee is much easier wiped off the tile floors!
Truffles I thought was going to be hard...and now at 9 months, she still makes mistakes but its the baby who is just a nightmare! LOL! I am chaulking it up to her very small size (= small bladder) and she is still just 5 months old. I have hope! But my husband gets mad too...more than I do, so I understand.
I also had a male Maltese-big guy 11 lbs, and he had seperation anxiety - he also would potty in his crate!! I wash bathing him everyday and washing his bedding. He was impossible. I probably wasn't the best trainer though, but I thought I did everything I could....
Anyway, just wanted to say that you aren't alone. It does get frustrating, but if you can, take some of the suggestions in this thread and try them if you haven't already. Do not give your baby full run of the house though - that is the first thing!
Good luck!
Trina

I can understand your frustration with the potty training issue. I have purchased 7 yorkies ranging in age from 8 weeks to 2 years old and not one of them were potty trained and as of to this day not one of them are potty trained yet. You have to be there to watch them 24/7 which I am not or else keep them caged all of the time and that isnt an option as far as I see it either. We had a brand new house with the nicest carpet because we paid a few thousand dollars extra to upgrade it when we bought the house and it is all ruined. I didnt realize I was going to have dogs when I moved in. On top of that the carpet is a light beige. (Well used to be, now it is beige with yellow polka dots) We will eventually rip it all out and start over with tile or something else but I can hear what you are saying about getting upset and needing to vent. There are days when I think I cant take it either especially when they make it a point to come in from being ouside and pee or poop on the floor as soon as you back is turned or run upstairs and do it where you cant see them. It is enough to drive anyone a little crazy at times. It is very hard to train one when there are others going in the house and since half of mine were at least 8 monts old and not potty trained, it is even harder to get them to learn at that age.

wow your carpet kinda sounds like mine...i sure hope my fur-kids don't tear up my carpet...crossing fingers...

Its not quite as bad since spring is here and we can leave the doors open for them to go outside which they do most of the time but winter is a mess. I spend every weekend shampooing carpets and that is getting old quick so will definately replace the carpet as soon as possible and then I think it will be alot easier to train them.

well i may not have the same problems as you..since all my babies are potty trained..i think...i have 2 maltese (1 female - 3 years old and 1 male 7 years old) .. 1 toy poodle (7 years old) .. and 1 yorkie (2 years old)...

well i can't exaxtly say that...cuz my toy poodle was purchased from the pet store and she has her own way of thinking...so she is not completely pottytrained...

and my yorkie she has a submissive problem...where she will dribble pee when you call her name if she is doing something...so i guess she will have to wear a diaper...

aww man i can see it now...me spending most of my time scrubbing my brand new carpet...argh!

We have an very old carpet here so it doesn't bother us much when there is an accident. But 5 out of 8 are completely trained and 2 are partially trained and will be completely trained soon. The only one who isn't trained is our newest addition Brownie. He has submissive urinating which makes it hard but I am confident with time and more training he will be completely trained too!!
We are trying to make sure they are all trained now because we will be moving soon and will have all new carpets. We are picking up a potty tent soon to see if that helps but I am happy that we have as many trained as we do!! We work really hard with them on their training and it so nice in the end to see all that hard work paid off!!

Toy dogs in general are hard to house train. They have such small bladders. Most of mine have been completely housebroken at 9 months, never had any broken at a younger age. It just takes alot of hard work, patience and time and persistance and it will all work out in the end!! Hang in there and try to stick with one routine, they need stability. Just keep doing the same thing over and over. It may seem like they aren't getting it but one day it will just click, trust me I have went through it several times. If you have any questions I will happy to answer them or if you need any advice just ask.:animal-pa

I feel your pain. My Teddy is 8 1/2 months old and I am home 24/7 (I take care of my hubby's 92 yr old mom who has Alzheimers) and I know when he needs to go potty. I take him out to do his thing BUT if I happen to be busy with my mother-in-law, he will go where he darn well pleases. So, like you, I have tried everything and I do not consider him housebroken. I just happen to know when he needs to go and take him out before that time.

It is VERY frustrating to work sooooo hard at potty training him and it just hasn't happened. I don't know what else to do but catch him before he goes in the house.

And of course I am a bugger for punishment as I just got a 4 month old little girl. No, she is not housebroken either so I am working on both of them. The one good thing with 2 is that they will stay out longer together but after dark is the worst as I do not let them out.

I know what I have said is no help at all but just know you are certainly not alone in this. I have had dogs all of my life and I do believe yorkies are the hardest to housebreak. But they are sooooo loving, loyal and I just can't imagine my life without them.

Generally, I heard that breed is hard to potty train. I've read a lot of posts by people who have trouble with it, well, sometimes I guess we need to be a little more flexible to the limitations of those small dogs... I never thought I'd have a dog that potties inside (neither has my husband :rolleyes: ) but as we both work, that turned out to be the only way to go... Pepper would go in his crate as a puppy, so I bent my rules and got an xpen. He has been consistent about going on his pee pad, he had a few acidents around 6-7 months of age but has been accident-free for about 5 months now... He just started pottying outside too, I never insisted on that, he kinda figured it out on his own but I know he'll always need a pee pad. My house is very clean, keeping it that way takes more work now than it did before having Pepper but I don't mind... If I was in your situation though, fighting over the dog and stressed about the wedding preparations, I'd consider if the breed is the right one for me.

my carpet is ruined. and we are renting!!!! but my furbabies just finished what my kids started!:D so it will have to be replaced. i got an xpen and put the furbabies in the kitchen. after reading all the responces i'm thinking of crate training then to go outside cause i'm tired of the odoor also!!! good luck!:animal-pa

we have a cream carpet and its old but we just cleaned the pee up with a carpet cleaner and it gets the stains out. i mean skoshi is now trained to go outside but you cant expect a puppy not to have accidents. and actually everyone in my house works and still we have time to train him. We kept him in the master bathroom at first while we were at work. but other than that he has free run of the house and always has. at first it was a lot of accidents of course but gradually we would catch him and make him smell it and make him follow us outside and also we think it was time for him to go outside we would take him. It takes persistence and dedication. he would never use it while he was in the bath room and we knew soon as we got home outside was the first priority and about 20 mins after he eats. and just everytime we think he need to go we will take him. and we always made him follow us to the door and now he goes to the door when he needs to go outside. we cleaned the carpets and i dont think we have any pee stains. you can work and train a dog to go outside. now pee pee pads never worked for us. just constantly taking him outside. it works really. he is 6months now.

we also have alway had small dogs. we had a beagle who would wait no matter how long till we got home to go outside and she would go to the door and bark when she needed to go outside. its just patience and you have to make that your #1 priority. we dont have small kids around either so we have a lot of time to focus on skoshi after work.

Crate her. The only other option is to take her with you everywhere you go. I crate mine in the car sometime, and when we spend the night somewhere ew, and at hotels.....but mostly he is free to roam..and he rarely has an accident.

Yorkies are difficult, but they WANT to please you, they just get excited and forget.

I hate to think that your little dog is somewhere that she is not loved. If you can't resolve this issue, and care for the dog properly, you should give her to a home that will be able to handle her.

What do you mean you crate her in the car? I hope you don't leave her alone in a car? I take my baby everywhere with me that I can, but I don't leave him alone in the car, what with worrying about the temperatures and dognapping.