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08-06-2009, 11:12 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| New owner needs advise! Hello! Hope someone can shed some light on our situation with our Yorkie! Pancakes is 4 months old, we have had him for 4 weeks. He has been such a joy! Sleeping through the night, playing well with other dogs, playing well with people, learning to walk on a leash, loves his crate...but we live ina condo and we are haivng a hard time house training him! Our breeder said that he was litter box trained, so we went out and purchased a littler box used the same litter that the breeder was using and have introduced the box to Pancakes upon his first day's arrival. We have him setup in a crate...bed, drinking water and litter box. There's no extra room for accidents. And he loves it in there, no whinning, barking, pawing to get out. He is in his crate whenever we are not able to be supervising him and at night time. We are taking him outside to potty train and that has been going well, very few accidents. At night he uses his litter box to pee in, and occasionally during the day when we have to leave him alone for a few hours while we are at work ( 2 days a week he's alone, 3 days a week Pancakes is in Doggy day care) but most times he will just hold it...I mean for hours! Just yesterday....we came home and he messed right outside his litter box?? What is happening with him...he used the litter box to pee in and has used it before to mess in but now...he's not using it during the day he is left at home?? HELP!!!! |
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08-06-2009, 03:13 PM | #2 |
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| Just keep doing what you're doing, he's still a very young puppy still and will have a few accidents. However, I wouldn't freak out over him missing the litter box 1 time. As he goes through teething, neutering & the teen-times you may see him have accidents then too. One other thing to consider, when mine get a little constipated, they kind of creep around as they try to poop. It could be that he started out in the litter box, but ended up outside when he actually pottied
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08-06-2009, 05:52 PM | #3 |
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| I agree with the above poster. Of my five I have only one that doesn't travel when they poo.
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08-06-2009, 06:01 PM | #4 |
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| Pooing outside of litter box Maybe everything was in the litter box but his rear end. He may have thought he was in if his paws were in or if at least two of his paws were in. Also, like a cat, he might not like using the box if it is dirty. |
08-07-2009, 06:17 AM | #5 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| Pheww!!! Thanks for your reply's! Being a new dog owner is a little stressful and we just want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to make sure our boy is well behavied and balanced! I will keep an eye on him, it's only happened once so hopefully it was just an accident. Thanks again Yorkie Talk user's...it's such a great help knowing that there are others out here who we can talk to and share advise with!
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08-07-2009, 01:13 PM | #6 | |
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08-07-2009, 01:16 PM | #7 |
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| With our old cat I know that if ANYTHING was in the litter box he would go outside of it! Good luck!
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08-07-2009, 01:19 PM | #8 |
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| You can also check his hair under there, if it is long sometimes things will cling to the hair only to fall off someplace else.
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08-07-2009, 01:21 PM | #9 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| Great advise! Perhaps I have found myself a picky Yorkie! Looks like I will be cleaning out his litter even more then before and that might help Thanks!
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