HELP! MY MOM wants to give away my pupppy!!!!
 

Hello everyone! Well finally after begging for 10 years I got my yorkie puppy! It was my graduation present since I graduated hs. We've had Princess for about a month. My mom is so angry that we've had her for a month and she is still not housebroken! I did research and we understand that she has a tiny bladder that isn't fully developed in puppies and that is an explanation of some accidents. The problem is...today we had her outside for two hours after she ate. She would not go outside. As soon as we brought her inside she went twice on the kitchen floor. We were trying to crate train her, but I think we took her out a little too much and blew that training method. I have exactly one month to train her or my mom is giving her away :( . I'm staying home for college so I can take care of her, but my mom said one month or she is gone. Does anyone have a method to housebreak Princess that will work in a month. Please help me keep my puppy!!! thanks everyone!

how many months is your puppy?
have u thought of wee wee pad training her??

there are scented pads where the doggies can smell and it attracts them to wee in the pad...

im so sorry to hear that u might have to give her up .. plz keep on trying with ur baby ... dont give up

We start ours off in a 4x4 crate with a pee pad in it. Once they start using the pad they seem to have it down pretty fast and get out more and more to just run around untill they use it all the time. Good luck and keep us posted.

You might consider parlor panties for her.

Some puppies just take a little longer. A yorkie is the easiest dog that I have ever housebroken. Sometimes it just takes a little more patience. I would suggest putting her in a crate whenever you are gone. And then taking her out immediately for her to go outside to the bathroom.

My yorkie is 18 months old and I haven't had a problem with her in a long time. I'm not a big fan of the pads only because I have a 14 year old shih tzu that was trained that way and I have always had problems with her not being completely housebroken. That is just my preference. Good Luck. Hopefully your mom will change your mind if she is not completely house broken in a month. How old is she a month may not be enough time? Every dog is different and some will take longer than others.

I hope this helps I'm sure a lot of responses' that you will get will be repeative.

My yorkie is 4 months and she is doing well, she was tough at first, but persistance in her training paid off. You have to be patient, sorry you might have to get rid of her. I hope you all can stick with her training and make it work out.

One month is a lot to ask. I am sure it took your mom more than a month to train you. Sorry, I am not too patient with unrealistic expectations.

Go back to the crate. Set up a time that you take her out on a regular basis. Something she will get to understand as her time. Take her to the place that she has aleady gone. Take her ther with NO playing or anything to get her sidetracked.

If you know of another dog that can "set an example" for her by pottying near or on hers area that would be good.

Be consistant

Be patient...you are right that they have tiny bladders and can't hold themselves as long as an adult.

This is a great suggestion! This is what helped jump start Daisy, she saw the neighbors dog and immediately squatted and has been going out side ever since.

I too agree with FireFish that one month is a lot to ask of a puppy.

Not to be offensive.....BUT HOW LONG DID SHE THINK HOUSEBREAKING WOULD TAKE? A dog is not a toy that you discard when it doesn't behave the way you want him/her to!!! If she did research she would have seen that it sometimes takes MONTHS/YEARS to fully house train a yorkie...you can't buy one and then a month later give him away, he is a BABY!!!

If you have had her for a month that means she is still under 4 months old. She simply may not be fully trained in another month, especially if she is still tiny. We stopped having crate accidents at about 6 months and we still have the occasional indoor accident but only if we let him out of the crate and aren't watching him closely. Crate training works - only let her out of the crate on a leash and/or if you are in the same room watching her. Right now, she doesn't even know that she needs to go until it is too late. Eventually she will begin to tell you when she needs to go - my guy is 8 months and started waiting at the door just 2 weeks ago, but he will only wait about 5 minutes and if no one sees him he just goes on the carpet. Again, this is where the crate works well!

Take her out immediately after she wakes up, after she has been in her crate, during and after playtime, etc. Take her to the same spot. Make a HUGE deal about it. You will see that even though she KNOWS she is supposed to go outside, she may not be able to hold it long enough to make it there every time. This is where the crate can help. When you take her out of the crate - pick her up and carry her outside. Your mom is probably only concerned about accidents in the house - so definately keep her in her crate when you aren't watching her. Also, make sure that the crate is NOT too big. She should not be able to pee in one end and lie down in another. This is only cruel if you leave her in it longer than she can hold it. (Go by YOUR puppy not that chart that says a 4 month old puppy can hold it 5 hours. Loki is 8 months and can only hold it 3 hours in his crate during the day but he does sleep 7-8 hours at night.) It might mean lots of baths until she simply gets old enough to have some control. Good luck!

Oh, and it might be worthwhile to buy a little steam cleaner. We have a little bissell that was about $90. We have white carpet and it's even gotten out diarrhea. Any time he has an accident we clean it up right away with that and we have no smells or stains.

Princess is 3 months old. Do you think it is too late to properly crate train her? I won't give up and I'm sure if my mom sees that I am trying this hard that she won't make me give her up. I hope my mom was just frustrated b/c she had two accidents today. My mom loves her just as much as me, and this is our first puppy so we are learning together. I'm going to try your suggestions. One more ? ..... we tried the potty pad, and she just runs around with it in her mouth or lays and chews it. We bought the holder she manages to rip it out!!!! How on earth do you guys get your yorkies to pee on that pad??? We have that ones that are scented and they don't work for us either. This is so frustrating.... I'm not going to give up.... I'm taking her to PetSmart right now to get her out of the house and buy her a treat. Thanks for everyones help and Thank goodness for Yorkie Talk!!!

Princess is still a baby!! Do not give up on her, she can be trained :)

Sammi is 19 months old and has accidents, everyday...

Please keep us posted

Lots of love
Fran

CONSISTENCY is the key - take her out after naps & then about every 45 min to an hour when she is up playing. Always talk to her when you are taking her outside, such as "let's go outside & potty" & then say "potty" when you put her down. While she is going say "good girl", "potty outside". I had our two 85 - 90% trained within two to three weeks. Granted, I felt like that is about all I was doing during that time - but it does pay off!!! Good luck!

Oh My!!!! That is a LOT to ask of a puppy. There is very good advice above, but to 100% train in a month probably will not happen. Your puppy is just a baby. They feel they have too much life to live to stop and pee or poop in the right place 100% of the time. I sure hope your Mom changes her mind. There must be other ways to calm her nerves about this. Are you keeping up with everything else? Is there any brownie points you can work on with her? I would sure hate to see you lose your puppy. I wish you the very best and a miracle when it comes to potty training. In the meantime, set your goal and work on it constantly and consistently.

This may sound a little graphic, but when your puppy poops in the house, take it outside where he is expected to go. Leave it there and the next time you take him out, put him by that and let him smell it. For some strange reason, that gives them the urge to go. ANY time your pup wakes up it will have to pee.

I changed that to "her" and "she", but it didn't take it....sorry to have called Princess a boy.

I'm sorry your mom is giving you a hard time about this. Hopefully, she will come to understand these thingst take time and she will loosen up as she see your hard work and little steps of progress. I wish you the best in your endeavors.

You can try doggie diapers. I've seen them at Pets Mart. What I used for my dog's was a dog exercise pen. You can get them at www.petsmart.com and www.petedge.com You put food, water, a bed and toys on 1 side and then you put a wee wee pad on the other side. This worked for both of my puppies. Good luck!

I have to agree with the posters who feel it is unrealistic to expect your puppy to be housebroken at 5 months. Mine still have accidents at 10 months.

If it is the mess in the house she doesn't like I would keep pantied on her in the house and take it off when you take her out to poop or pee. That eliminates any mess or damage to the house so your mom should have nothing to complain about.

I hope your mom loves the puppy as she does one of her own children. The puppy trusts that you will understand that she is not perfect and she may have accidents for a long time, but she is now a member of your family and deserves " unconditional love" just as any family member does.

It sounds like she was just expressing her frustration but she would not actualy make you find the baby another home. Good luck.

We put our potty pads right next to both doors that Brody typically used to go outside. He got the idea that he was supposed to be somewhere near these doors to go to the bathroom, but he never figured out that he should be on the outside. The potty pads work good for us, but he is still not completely housetrained (he's 8 months old). I will take him outside for hours at a time, and he will still go back inside to pee. I don't know why. We started using Nature's Miracle potty pads and really like those. However, if she is chewing on them, you might not want to use them.

It's definately not too late to crate train. All the crate does is discourage them from soiling their sleeping area, allowing you to take them directly to the grass when it's time to go rather than them choosing a nice spot on the carpet. That's why the crate has to be VERY small at first. Like, if they potty in the crate they have to lay in it (Gross, but that's the theory.) Make sure the crate is not a punishment - give her a treat when she goes in the crate and put her toys in there with her. You can also try feeding her in the crate (with the door open), since food is a good thing and she can associate it with being in her crate. Make sure you have a WIRE cage and not a plastic travel carrier. She needs to see out. We used an 18" crate with a divider panel when Loki was tiny and he JUST moved up to a 24" crate.

You also have to be careful about letting them out when they are crying. Gradually you will learn the different from an "I have to potty" cry and a "I don't want to be in here" cry. Loki is still pretty good sounding like someone is torturing him to try to get my attention but if I ignore him for 5 minutes he stops. If they are just crying for attention you have to wait until they stop even for few seconds!! to pay attention to them and let them out.

Ha ha ha ha no problem. Thanks so much for your advice!!! I tried that but I turned my head and she began to eat her poop! Ughhhh I'll put Tabasco sauce on it this time lol!

You can still crate train. Aside from that, when she is loose in the house put her in a puppy diaper. (They sell them in Petsmart) It won't help train her, but her accidents won't be in your mom's house. Maybe if she is not cleaning up messes she will be more patient and will be willing to wait longer for her to be trained.

In regards to her eating her poop...If you give her a little peice of pineapple with her food, it will deter her from eating the poop...Supposedly it makes the poop smell less appealing to them...GROSS I know, but it works...

Good Luck!
Fran

I read somewhere that a puppy doesn't KNOW when it needs to go potty until at least four months...they have to know ahead of time in order to tell you that they need out. You might want to hang a bell on the door and teach her to ring the bell each time you take her out. Just imagine how impressed mom will be if she learns to ring a bell to go potty! ;)

Get a pen and rubber flooring.
 

Get a play pen from Petsmart (cost like $70 bucks) and the rubber squares (the interlocking kind for exercise flooring) and a litter box. I did this for my boys and if they pottied in the wrong spot I didn't care as much because it was really easy to clean.

I tried using the piddle pads but my boys thought it was a toy. I even went as far as tapping the diaper to the floor. They can now use them, but they are almost 1 year old. They do well but are still not completely trained (about one accident every two weeks or so). I also did a horrible job about teaching them because I work like 11 hours a day and let them eat and dring all day.

Hope everything works out.

Lots of good advice above.
What worked for me is : I used diapers. I didn't take my eye off of
Ahia while I was training her. I trained her to go outside. She picked it up rather quickly. I took her out very often, offered her a treat each time she pottyed. (I have to say, for Ahia, the treats did it)
If your mom didn't see any messes (due to the diapers) might be she would be willing to give her longer to pick up the training.
what i used was doggy diapers with human panty liners. I just cut them in 1/2 and the sticky on the back makes them stay in place. great for when they are in heat also. cheaper too.
I hope you mom will give her longer to train.

Your mother was upset about a baby peeing on the kitchen floor which is probably tiled? I call that good aim! Much better than hitting the living room carpet!!

At six months old she will probably be on a good start of potty training, but VERY unrealistic to even think she could be fully potty trained before 8 months old, in my opinion. And it will probably take her a little longer. If it is such a big deal, put a doggy diaper on her instead of giving her up. Think of her as a small toddler. Even if she knows where you want her to go, she will probably not be able to tell you or even care to tell you until she is a little more mature.