Potty training issues!!!! HELP!! Poop on carpet!!
 

Hello everyone, I'm new to this site and i think i get really use some help from Yorkie owners. I got a 7.5 week old Yorkie about a little over a week ago, so that makes him 8.5 weeks. His name is Enzo, and Enzo has pooping issues :) ! I don't really know what to expect from a young puppy like that and most of all a Terrier. Sooooo Enzo will make it to the Puppy pad to go pee after he wakes up and after playing. I also make sure to pay attention to him to pee on the pad. But the second i don't look he pees just a little anywhere on the title in our condo. That i can still live with because i know i still have some much time to work on that. Here's the problem... Enzo will hold in his poop the entire day and not go on the pad at all. As soon as he gets out of his kitchen and dinning room area (that's where we try to get him to stay since it's tile) he runs to find carpet and poops there instantly. I know i've only had him for a week or so, so i shouldn't expect anything big. But i'm kind of a neat freak and it bugs me just a little when he poops on my carpet. :) I really want to be doing things right with him from the very beginning. Please help. I'm wide open for all advice.

Thank you :)

I definitely feel your pain! My Cody is 14 weeks and he still has a few accidents on the carpet!!!GRRRR! I take him out to potty and he will pee no problem but 4 whatever reason he feels the need to poop on my rug!!!! And he does it when I am not looking!!! All I can say is Good Luck!!;)

Are you on a regular potty schedule? Maybe he likes to poop in a quiet area, thats why he runs off into the condo to find a spot. You can also give him rewards for pooping on the pad.

My Romeo is 5 months old and he still refuses to go on the pad No matter what.He wants to go out to do it. But with our weather it's impossible sometimes. In a way I guess I'm lucky cause he will only go in the kitchen, but not on the pad

You don't like cleaning poop up off the floor for one?? Try 4 dogs that use pee pads...for some reason at night, they all decide maybe they should go wherever(don't do that in the daytime)..so, soon, they will all be sleeping in the laundry room. I have always put their nose down by it and tapped their butts and told them you poop on your pad, and take them right to it..Don't exepect too much out of your baby, he's not even 9 weeks old yet, and they really have no control over their bladders and bowels until at least 12-14 weeks, and sometimes it takes a long time to get them housebroke..My youngest is almost 6 mos. I got her at 11 weeks, and by 14 weeks, she had the peeing on the pad down pat, but, now the pooping, she'll go in the laundry room about 5 feet from the pad, she may get it one day, she may not..I have learned that their love is so unconditonal, and if they have accidents the rest of their lives, so be it..they live such short lives, that I find the older I get, the little things in life(like poop here or there) really don't bother me that much anymore...:)

My pup is great at holding his pee, but not so much with his poop. He does a better job holding it when he is in his xpen. But if you put him on the carpet, all bets are off! I can't let him out of my sight for more than 10 min without running the risk of an accident. So, 95% of the time, he is in his crate, xpen, or my lap. The only time I can really let him run around and play is when we are outside. My pup is almost 5 months old. Sorry but I think you have a long way to go. Most people on here say that their pup wasn't house trained until 1 year to 18 months old. My best advice is to keep your puppy confined or in your arms most of the time unless you are outside. Also, get a good carpet cleaner like nature's miracle or simple solutions. I'm a neat freak too, but alas, puppies don't care about neatness LOL! And don't worry your baby will be potty trained before you know it!

Welcome to YT!!

How does he know he's supposed to go on the pad? Do you reward him? Also, he's too young to be able to hold it. He just goes when he feels the urge. If he is pooping on the carpet then you are allowing him access to the carpet. You need to confine him when you can't watch him. Or you have to wait until he goes before you let him run around.

Yorkies take a lot of patience. It might be 6 months or a year until he is fully trained. It happens sooner IF you are consistent and watch him constantly.

Usually accidents happen on the carpet, in my experience. Also, the pad FEELS like carpet to him. There are people on here that had to remove all throw rugs from their house because the dogs think they are pads. We trained ours to go outside so there's no confusion.

Good luck and just have some patience!!

My husband and I use to live in a condo and we did the pee pad's so we wouldnt have to go down three flights of stairs 10 times a day but Jasmine would only pee on it she wouldnt poo on it and it prolly took about 18 months for her to fully potty trained. Good Luck!!;)

Do you guys who train with pads have dogs who hit the pad when they poop every time? Because maybe it's just because mine go outside, but they have to run back and forth a good 5-15 feet several times before they go, and then when they finally pick a spot they waddle at least 5 feet from where they started. There's no way they would poop on a small pad. We even shoveled a spot about 5x5 for them with the new snowfall, and they will pee in that spot but they venture out into the snow drifts to poop.

HA HA! Sounds like my dog!

Mine usually get it on the pad, but, sometimes not..it is very easy to clean up though..been doing it for almost 10 years, it doesn't even phase me anymore

Try picking up the poo with tissue and then placing it on the pad;) Let him sniff it there, and soon he'll hopefully get the idea that the poos go on the pad. He's really very very young, its gonna take some time.

I think that is the york way. They have to walk all over to find the right spot to poop then you are right they will start then waddle off the pad or the area in the yard. So unless you put down several pee pads they aren't going to always get it on the pad. Plus they do like clean pads to poop on so you don't want to leave them down for long. Or they will just find another place to poop. Because its soiled and they can't poo in that place.....ha ha go figure.

You will get some great advice here sorry i cannot help you as i am still training my littlest one i know with the older one it only took him one time seeing the min pin go now he goes on the pad :) anyways i just wanted to say welcome to yt!

I also got my little puppy when she was 8 weeks. I started straight away with potty training in a cat litter box (so quite big box). She got it really quickly, I just put her inside and waited until she did her needs, gave her a big treat and just kept on doing that until she got it. Of course she pooped and peed elsewhere in the beginning, that is just what puppies do, but just be consistent. When she was small she could not jump inside the box by her self, but now she is big enough to go inside,and she never fails! Its important to keep it very clean though, she refuse to walk in if there is still poop or pee there, haha (very posh)! Now she is 7 months and never do it elswhere than the litter box! So maybe its a good idea to just put a big box... And use cat-sand (I also put newspaper, just one layer on top), it takes the smell away. Good luck!

Hi! Lolo is 8 months old and is fully 'potty trained' on 2 different pads. The same thing happened to us and apparently she didn't like peeing and pooping on the same pad. I know this sounds crazy, but try having one for pee (and also put newpaper there as the breeder told us that is their instinct) and then where ever she goes poo - in your other room I assume - put the pad. Hate to say it, but has worked for us like wonders. Good luck!!

Do not let him any where near the carpet. My breeder told me when I brought my pup home that he would have to earn his freedom rewards. We discovered what she meant when we had similar problems.

We also did not wait long enough for him to complete his business outside. We would bring him in praising him for going outside, only to find that he had more to do! We do not make that mistake any more.

In addition, if he did not perform outside, when we brought him in, his feet never touched the floor. He was placed in his crate or carried until we brought him back out.

We consistent.
Walk him always on a leash when you train outside. We did not use the pads, even though it was winter. We brought him where we wanted him to go and with the longer, retractable leash, he had some freedom to walk and sniff, etc.

Hope this helpful to you. Lots of luck. Hard to be so patient!

He has such a long way to go. He's only 9 wks... So you cant expect that much from him... :)

Yeah my little guy will pee on the pad EVERY time but 1 out of every 15 will he poop on it. He knows he is supposed too. He used too. I don't know what to do!

I think that I pretty much should wait til the puppy is at least 14 weeks and neutered, and then expect a little more out of him. We do have all the carpet areas completely blocked off but somehow the little guy just breaks through. We watch him like hawks when my husband and i are home and as soon as we see him sniffing around we put him on the pad and he pees on it fine, sometimes right next to it, but that's good enough for us for now. but when he needs to poop, he will circle around the kitchen and the dinning room for 10, 15 minutes, running like crazy and when he finally finds a spot on the title we grab him and put him on the pad. as soon as we do that he doesn't want to go anymore and just holds it in. i know that's not healthy for him to do that. my husband mentioned something about him not wanting to use the pad because it might be too close to his food and play area in the kitchen but we have another pad laid out about ten feet away when we re home and he still wont use it to poop. .... well i guess i'll take everyones advice and try to work on the little guy.
Now i have a random question about training to do tricks. is there a certain age that it would be ok to start teaching them simple commands and tricks ?

First off a puppy that young, especially a toy dog, won't be fully potty trained for months. It's like trying to potty train a 1 year old. They don't have the control until they reach a certain level of maturity. In fact, I read it takes on average until they are 1 year old to be fully potty trained. Finally, after a year we can now pretty much count on our fur baby to let us know when she has to use her pee pad (which, because of the sanitation issue is on our deck outside the back slider).

We have finally figured out that our little girl will not go poo on a pee pad that has been used more than a day (depends on how much they pee of course but a puppy is a pee machine). So we have to change the pee pad every day and a half or so. Actually, dogs prefer not to go in any area that is heavily soiled with their waste. So you might try either separate pads, or change the pad more often if you aren't already.

One other thing which isn't directly related to your question, but worth a mention, we found that the edges of the pee pad directly on the floor was not detectable enough for our dog, and worse, when she peed close to the edge, it would leak under the pad. So we bought one of those plastic pee pad holders. Ours is thicker molded plastic with snap down edges about 2 inches wide, and about 1 inch high so the dog can really sense it is not just part of the floor.

You can teach tricks right away. Is there a reason they are neutering him at 14 weeks? They made us wait until Loki was 6 months old. I think we had him neutered at exactly 6 months. He never learned to hike his leg. The way to prevent that is just avoid any poles or trees or anything upright on walks until he is older.

Also, you can't just keep moving the pads. First of all, the dog's natural instinct is to do it's thing outside. You are teaching him that it's OK to go in one part of the house - kitchen, bathroom, corner of the living room, or whatever. They don't seek out a pad like a cat would seek out a litter box. It doesn't work that way. If you train them to go on a pad and then take up the pad, they are more likely to go where the pad WAS rather than where you moved it to. That's why I recommend people train their dogs to go outside from the beginning if they ever want them to go outside. Because you can't just move the pad one day and decide it's not OK to go in the house anymore. They won't understand.