Please help me I really want to keep him...
 

We bought Kiko back in December of last year when he was still a puppy, he just turned one in June but he is just extremely Hyper!!!! We love him very much and have tried to adjust but is very hard. We tried from crate training, keeping him on a schedule taking him out and he still does his business where ever he pleases, sometimes he does it outside and we walk in the door and he goes again!!! , He sometimes goes in the pee pee pad in his area but when we are not looking he rips them all into confetti size and I have to spend a long time picking up and cleaning,I also get scared because he is getting those tiny pieces of dirty pads on his eyes ... that is issue No 1, next issue is the non stop barking.... I tried the coins, spraying him with water, the Dog Repeller, and nothing.... he barks and barks. We take him for walks to give him some exercise, my son plays with him but as soon as we place him back in his area the barking begins and he does not stop. Lately he has also been biting, not sure if is playful but when we play with him he bites and is really creating an issue as my son is getting scared of playing with him. We love him and he is the cutest but i have seen other Yorkies and they are not as Hyper as he is....I know each dog has its own personality but not sure if there is anything we can do to help him.... please tell me that it will get better as he gets older!!!!
I really appreciate any suggestions!!!

Is he neutered? As far as the behavioral problem goes...you have to be consistant. Everytime he starts to bite ...a firm NO! is in order.

Aw i cant really help as my Poppy is just 12weeks old but i hope everything works out xxx

Oh my. It sounds like you have come to your wits end. Yorkies can be very difficult to housebreak. I have one that was perfect and another that I have found is not so perfect. It sounds like he really wants a lot of attention. You really do have to be consistent with everything you do, lots of praise, and treats are a good idea. Obviously this all requires a lot of time and patience. I really wish you good luck with it all.

that is my first question as well

Yes he has been neutered as we were told that was going to help.. but so far his behavior is the same. He was neutered at 6 months.

Have you discussed this with your vet? Any basic training? Calling in a professional?

Maybe he needs puppy class!

"We take him for walks to give him some exercise, my son plays with him but as soon as we place him back in his area the barking begins and he does not stop. Lately he has also been biting, not sure if is playful but when we play with him he bites and is really creating an issue as my son is getting scared of playing with him. We love him and he is the cutest but i have seen other Yorkies and they are not as Hyper as he is....I know each [COLOR=green !important][COLOR=green !important]dog[/COLOR][/COLOR] has its own personality but not sure if there is anything we can do to help him.... please tell me that it will get better as he gets older!!!!
I really appreciate any suggestions!!! "

When you say you place him back in his area what do you mean? A crate, x-pen, gated kitchen..ect.. I ask because the only time I put Tink in her x-pen is when I know I will not be able to watch her 100%. The rest of time she is where ever I am. Maybe he is barking because he is confined too much? One thing I do with Tink is I leave her leash attached to me in the mornings so she cannot wonder off. This lets her spend more time with me before I go to work without letting her get into trouble while I am busy getting ready.

Just a few suggestions. Good luck !

That was my thought as well. All 6 of my little ones have the run of the house. Close doors, gate off rooms but by all means let that baby stay by you if you are around. I had 2 -12 week old puppies running around my house when I first got mine 3 years ago. They ran,played and did the puppy thing all day and most nights. I never crated them. Not that anything is wrong with x-pens or crates but limit the time in one. I have a friend that had to have a yorky after seeing mine and see turns up with a puppy. Well every time I talk to her I ask where her baby is the same response is in her crate. I finally told her to get the baby out of that crate. She started bringing her over to my house to play with my group and at a year old she was so hyper because she spent TOO much time in a crate. Now after a little over a year and me getting after her she finally lets her out of the crate and she is a much nicer dog.
As far as pee pads, If once they are used you throw it away. If they rip it apart it won't be dirty with urine, if it gets in his eyes.
When my girls were babies, if they put there mouth on my skin I would say (firmly) No teeth,and to this day they would never put there mouth /teeth on me. Good luck, and hang in there

Maybe he's one of those dogs that need to know if he should pee inside or outside. If you are struggling with the potty training; I would stick strictly to outside training. You will HAVE TO GO OUT WITH HIM when he goes out to potty. That is key. Stay with him until he does his business - perhaps using a command phrase such as 'go potty' over and over again until he does it. When he does pee (or poop) PRAISE him like crazy. Have a party. Give him some high value treats the instant he is done. Do this for two weeks and I'll bet he will get the hang of it.

Shredding the pee pads is normal puppy behavior. Lucy still likes to tear up paper.

Lastly, exercise, exercise, exercise! I second the Puppy Class suggestion. Perhaps he needs to romp around with other pups and get rid of some of that playful energy - along with learning some small commands.

Hang in there and work on the training.

Get a remote control vehicle that the puppy can not hurt himself on and have your son run the car for him for maybe 15 min. once a day at the same time of day. Good way for puppy to drain off energy and fun for your son as well. My Zeke loves to chase remote controled vehicles. Also, he loves to chase a tennis ball. For some reason these dogs seem to require more attention than most dogs. He should get better as he gets older. They need to be walked a lot, or at least mine does.

You've gotten a lot of good suggestions. I'd like to add some. If you and your son are playing with the puppy, are you 2 being consistent? What I mean is, does the puppy exhibit behaviours that you excuse while you are playing with him but them when you are tired of it, discipline the pup for it? If while you are playing and you let the pup put his mouth/teeth on you and you let it go for the sake of play but then when it is not playtime and the pup does it, you say it is not good?

Potty training needs to be just that. You need to keep the pup on a strict schedule. Not necessarily to the minute but to the same routine. Once he gets up, eats, when you get home from school, or work. You need to let him know what the routine is. He may still continue to have accidents, but unless you are consistent with what you want, he will never learn.

Have you tried the holder for the training pads? I know that at first mine didn't like the hard holder...it was a different feel under their feet as we used the pads on the carpeting at first. Once they realized and got used the hardness, they would use the pad in the holder.

You may want to take your little ones to puppy class. This will be a great learning and bonding experience for all involved. Instead of calling it puppy class, I say it should be called human and dog training. I learned much more than Hot Rod did at his obedience class. He was my first dog ever and I had no idea what signals and vibes that I was giving off to him until it was brought to my attention. You have to remember, dogs do not speak human, you (and your son) have to learn to speak dog.

What may make sense to you will not mean the same thing to your pup. It's almost like having a child, but you have to learn a whole different language.

Best of luck to you and your son and your pup. It can be done, you just need to be consistent, patient and open to it all.

I can't help as I have girls but I wanted to say Poppy is a very cute name!!!
Kendra

You sound like us when we first got Kona. He was very high energy, leader of his littermates, and barked until we thought we were going nuts when in his playpen. We read so many books and watched so many videos on dog training. Now, he's a great dog, barely barks, loves his crate, and is mostly without potty accidents. He is still not well socialized but we're working on it. But he's great with us.

Here's what helped us the most:
- caesar millan - dog whisperer. We watched many many episodes, got his DVD, and read several of his books. Watching him really helped us and our dog so much. We think our dog has a very strong leadership personality so we needed to learn how to be a good leader for him. We learned how to tell him how we want him to behave and how to correct him. Not everyone likes his methods but for us, he was a totAl life savor.

- for potty training, we took him to the peepad and eventually outside everytime and say "go potty" and watch him pee or poo. We praised like crazy and gave chicken. When we caught him in the act inside, we'd say no no no and pick him up, take him to the pad and say go potty here. If he finished there, we'd say good boy. If he didn't, we'd let him walk off Knut at least he knew where we wanted him to go. There's a book we read called housebreak your dog in 7 days or something like that that helped us.

- for barking we did 2 things. I'm not sure which did the trick but he's pretty quiet now. He still barks at strangers but we're still working on that. So the first thing we did was we tried to ignore it. The worst was when we got home from work, he'd start barking as soon as our car drove up. So we started parking on the street and creeping in. We tried to catch him being quiet when we came in and praise like crazy. If he barked, we'd stop walking in and stay there or go back out the door until he stopped barking. When he stopped we would go towards him, etc. This took a while for him to get but he got it. I had to wear earplugs during these weeks because my nerves were on end. The other thing we did was say no bark when we barked when we were already near him.

- we had private trainers come by our home to see what we were doing wrong and give suggestions. This was decent but watching dog whisperer was what really helped us the most.

- we took him to puppy obedience classes. This helped get him more socialized which was also part of the problem. Were still working on the socializing him. But I think the classes helped him a bit.

- oh, for shredded peepads, we sprayed bitter apple on them. Then he kind of grew out of it. You might want to try those reusable peepads if he still hasnt grown out of it.

Take a look into grid training for the potty training... Puppies chew and this is one way to avoid confetti puppy pads. I like this system because you can use both inside and outside after they figure it out... There are some posts on it in the training section. I listed a huge description of my homemade grid in a post called "WizDog & UGO DOG"

I have the craziest little energizer bunny at home... sometimes we even joke that he's the energizer bunny on steriods. These are some things that help:
-Get potty trained consistently spend a huge amount on it, so that when they are confined you can give them more room.
-Play fetch all the time...
-I like the toy remote car suggestion, by BF just plays chase a few times a day, where he runs around the house and Harley chases and barks... it's so cute too
-WALKS lots of them... Every day, and a few times a day. Destruction occurs because of boredom.
-LOTS of socialization with people and other dogs. Harley has two "big brothers" that we get together at least twice a month, and a huge small dog group that also gets together monthly. It teaches a lot of manners, like not biting, how to play etc. and it allows them time to burn energy. When I get to Dexter & Newton's house and let Harley off leash, he goes nutts for like an hour, and then crashes.

Good luck. Welcome to the energizer bunny club!

I have a yorkie with almost all the same proplems ! :confused:
When we got him we did'nt raise him anything up at first ,he pee'd inside , barked nonstop, then i started to raise him more up , ban him things that he should be banned, AND when he stopped being naughty I tried to be the best person in the world, said ''Good boy Fido! you're so good boy!'' or something like that, now he's 2 years old and he's almost perfect :D
I got him when he was turning 6 months old (5 1/2) , then he was used to pee on this litle pee pads.

Take the pee pads from him, put them right up to the door at first, when he gets used to having it there then put it outside up to the door, then he see's that he is suppose to pee outside.
It's really really hard to potty train a yorkie if you still have peeing pads, its almost impossible! so put them firt right up to the door , then outside after some time, then take them at all :)
Fido was about 3 months getting potty trained but ofcaurse sometimes he did mistakes, most often was it my fault (I forgot to take him outside).
He didnt know how to let me know he needed to go outside , i reccomand you take him outside every 2 hours.
And dont forget to say ''good boy'' and such things, and give him treats when he does right! :D thats so important!

About the barking, Fido still barks, yorkie's bark, thats really normal cause they were trained to be guard dogs in the begining and chasing rats and mice.
But you can make him bark less.
I ban Fido to bark, but i encourage him when he stops, if i have treats on me i give him one when he stops, he barks less now than he did a year ago.

Fido runs around the house alot and is very energic dog, if he doesnt get his excercise, then he's hell inside! If he gets excersise he just chills inside.
Try excersising him more, Im sure that he will be MUCH easier then, Fido doesnt even bark when he's tired after a good walk or a run.
Beeing so energit grows off him i think, Fido is very calm now inside even if i dont walk for 1-2 days.

One thing else, DON'T give up on him, its a part of getting a DOG to raise them well up and just don't give up if something gets hard, then you should have gotten a cat or something, a dog is responsibility and hard work. but you will be happy in the end when he will be a perfect dog, all the hard work pays of ! :)

How much excersise does he get (i dont know how i spell excercise)?

About the biting when he plays, that is normal, ban him that right away!
What worked best for Fido was to pretend i cry , walk away and don't give him attention for a LONG time, then he thinks ''Oww, i hurt her! i must never do that again!''.
Fido wont dare biting my hands now when he's playing.

You CAN figure something out of this who does not include giving him away, if i could fix this in my dog (nipping the hands, much of the barking and the energy!), then you surely can also! you just have to be patient!:)

Please do yourself a favor and switch to washable pads. Believe me, it is not gross or smelly and they wash up fluffy and clean and he won't shred them. Here is a link that a member turned me on to and I'm soooo thankful she did...http://www.odcmerchandise.com. They are larger, more absorbent and economical than disposable. It's why they use them in hospitals.

I'm blessed with little Harlie as she does as she is told and will sit and stay and "go-side peepee poopoo" when we're available to her. So, I'm not much help on your behavioral issue but like the others have said, consistency is the key to training. Whether it's people or puppies they must understand sites and sounds (your motions and speech) to some extent.

Harlie is very active and has a lot of energy that must be bled off after we all get home. We spend at least 2 hours with her running in the back yard, playing fetch with her ball and frisbee, playing tug-o-war...etc. Every 3 days she gets a good scrubbing and that bleeds off a little energy too. In the evening, I hold a rawhide chew for her and she sits in my lap and will chew for an hour.

Yorkies are people animals, you're all they have and they want your attention to max until they're tired. There's nothing sweeter than when they fall to sleep inyour arms after a good play session. Good luck and keep the faith...he'll be just fine :).

Don