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07-11-2010, 05:55 PM | #1 |
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| House training Why are Yorkies sooo hard to train?!? Any suggestions? I have 2 girls 1 will be 3 in Oct and the other is 7 months old. |
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07-11-2010, 06:39 PM | #2 |
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| how are you training them? Potty pads or outside.... Do you crate train them?
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07-11-2010, 06:57 PM | #3 |
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| Welcome To YT! Hopefully you can answer the questions RDB911 asked so you can start getting some help. This can be such a hard task and there are a lot of great ideas here. |
07-11-2010, 07:05 PM | #4 |
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| Welcome to YT!! I have to tell you that I have had Yorkies for 20 years and I have never had one that is 100% potty trained, 100% of the time!! I have had some that are better than others but they are not like a big dog that would rather hold it and blow up than go in the house!! I have one Yorkie that used to "fake" squat when we would go outside, she would squat and look like she was peeing but if you picked her up, her privates would be dry and she wanted to just come in the house quick so she could pee inside!!! They are very smart and I think sometimes vindictive!! But they are sooooo cute and loving that I put up with it!! Good luck, maybe someone has a magical training method that they can teach both of us, because crate training never did work for me with Yorkies.
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07-12-2010, 02:03 AM | #5 |
No Longer a Member | What kind of options are you giving them when they are in the house to go potty? Pads? Or are you strictly outside only? Have they been fixed? Let us know so we can help out, plus the training forum has lots of info for training these special pups to go potty in their zones (outside or pee pads or both) |
07-12-2010, 02:48 AM | #6 |
Poppy's Mamma ♥ Donating Member | I have never potty trained a dog before now as my older dog was 3 and already trained when we got her. I now have a 7 week old yorkie and she seems to be doing pretty well on the puppy pads, she has only had the odd accident and the times she has they have been very near to the pad as if she just missed it so atleast she is trying. I am going to start taking her outside to potty once she has had her needles but she seems to know that the pads are where she must go at the moment. Like another member asked are you crate training your pup? and are you using the pads or not?
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07-12-2010, 07:54 AM | #7 |
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| wonderful Well, mine is 14 wks old and is learning to go to the door and in the process ring the bell. I've crate trained him and he is doing very well. Remember puppies have no control and if they gotta go they will just go. Best thing to do - get on a schedule. First thing in morning, outside. After eating and/or drinking, wait maybe 10 minutes unless it has diahrrea then immediately outside. After naps, immediately outside. AFter playing hard and winding down, DON"T HESITATE - outside! (This was the hardest for me to learn because I couldn't tell when he was tired to play and then he'd go.) For all those crate training and have not had much success. I have some tips. I was worried at first because he would just go spastic when we left him in the crate. First thing is be tough, but sensible. Work with him on a weekend while you are staying home if he is not doing well at night. In other words, put him/her in for a few minutes at a time and when he shuts up for just a few seconds praise him/her. Let them stay in there and ignore them when they start to cry again. Do it a few times then after about 10-15 min and you get a silence in between cries praise him and let them out to run around and play. Do this during the day a few times. At night I found if I waited until he fell asleep with me on the couch and then place him in there, but sat by the crate a few nights while petting him thru the door and letting him know this was his safe house he did better. Sometimes he would cry while I'm sitting there but I would tell him quiet or hush and ignore him. He finally would quiet down and go to sleep after 15-30 minutes. Once I walked away if he started to cry I came back and if still crying bang on the crate once and say "quiet go to sleep". I would walk away and usually he would whimper a little and then go to sleep. Key for me was to ignore him after the first command. Now, he makes no fuss and he is comfortable in the crate. Next stage is to get him to go in there on command I am one proud momma! |
07-12-2010, 10:21 AM | #8 |
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| Thank goodness, when I got Roxie she was already housetrained, she is a little over a year old now and she is crate trained as well, so thats a big plus. |
07-12-2010, 10:39 AM | #9 |
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| When people refer to crate training, how long are you supposed to leave the pup in the crate for? My baby is 14 weeks and we are still having a tough time training him...I never did pee pads bc I wanted him to learn to go outside so I just constantly take him out. He goes like clockwork in the morning and at night but seems to be a little machine all day, peeing in little places all over. I feel like I should have done crate training from the get-go but I can't bear to leave him in a tiny crate all day So I guess my question is....is he in this crate just during the day or is he supposed to stay in it even when I'm home from work? Advice would great!!
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07-12-2010, 10:44 AM | #10 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: BA, OK, USA
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| another help on spastic babies Another thing I do once in a while is give him a natural relaxer. You can get it online or maybe at petsmart or petco. It's all natural and does not hurt them just relaxes. One is called Natural remedy for pets. or Sleepy tyme for pets. It has really helped with the separation anxiety. He is so much better. |
07-12-2010, 11:01 AM | #11 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: BA, OK, USA
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| To dzbabykel I found working with him on a gradual basis was best. First rule of thumb, ignore them when they cry. Do NOT under any circumstances open the crate and pick them up while crying. They will never learn it is okay to be by themselves if you do. This is how I started to do it at night about bedtime. I waited until he fell asleep on the couch and then placed him in there and closed door. Once in there he will spring wide awake. So sit with him and pet or play with one hand in a cracked doorway and relax yourself cause this could take about 30 minutes. After a few minutes of play, remove hand, and sit quietly. If he barks or whines tell him "quiet" or "hush" and then do not say another word. Mine would finally go to sleep. But then I would walk away and he would whine. I would go back to the crate and hit it once and tell him "hush". This went on for about a week or 10 days. One night after a week I placed him in there and sat there and said "It's night night time Rosco. Go in there and go to sleep" and I couldn't believe what happened! He went back in the back, snuggled in his blankie and went right to sleep. I waited a few minutes and went to bed. Didn't hear anything until 3:30am which was potty time!!! they are like human babies and will cry incessantly at first. You have to let them cry it out but not more than an hour at a time when first doing this. That's why doing it on the weekend is better - you have time and can do it in short 10 to 15 minute sessions, but when ready to bring them out WAIT UNTIL THEY STOP CRYING FOR A FEW SECONDS, immediately say good boy/girl and then get them out. I took two weekends and did it twice on saturday and twice on sunday. And the rest was play or sleep time in the house outside the crate of his choice. Now he goes in with little or no fuss. |
07-12-2010, 11:04 AM | #12 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: BA, OK, USA
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| crate training P.s. if he seems to whine while sitting there and won't be quiet while you are there, it is okay to pet him until he falls asleep. I did that for 3 nights after I thought about it. Then after that I decreased my time petting him at that stage. |
07-12-2010, 11:34 AM | #13 |
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| With crate training Roxie, she sleeps in her crate at night, and when I am at work, but I have someone go home during lunch to let her out and play a bit, but when I am home she is out with me. For a smaller puppy, I would crate the puppy when you arent able to watch the puppy carefully, to make sure they dont sneak off and pee. |
07-12-2010, 11:54 AM | #14 | |
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07-13-2010, 07:51 PM | #15 |
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