Feel like a Failure!
 

I am starting to feel like a failure. Peanut is 4 years old- He will be 5 in May. He isnt potty trained at 4 YEARS OLD! I know it is my fault. I have tried everything under the sun and for some reason it doesn't work.

I feel as if I shouldn't even be able to own a dog if I can't have my dog potty trained, I mean really-

Just had to get that off my chest.

aaaw Sorry you are feeling this way, you are not a failure. I am still in the process of training Miss Priss and she still has accidents. Plus when I brought her home, well a couple of months later, my peke, Yoshi started marking and he was neutered at 5 months and is almost 7 yrs old.

Awww dont say that! Ralph is potty trained but has his accidennts. He litterally just had one. Have you tried pads? Sometimes they are easier to train your dog on(:

Thanks, I got Pnut neutered at 4 months. He marks all the time. Even when we go to people's houses, I will catch him marking! So I always have to watch him like a hawk- I just feel like I am doing SOMETHING wrong if we can't get it fguered out. I mean I understand if he had a couple accidents, but it is like all the time. Sometimes he will go pee in the kitchen and then prance away like he did the right thing!!

Yes- We have always lived in apt/condo so I trained him on pads. Then we bought a house last year and I started to train him outside- He KNOWS where to go he just doesnt LOL. When it rains I have to put a pad down because he wont go when its wet outside!

Also he loves to pee on rugs/bathroom rugs -

Ralph is the same way! But i got a potty bell to put on the door and literally spent two weeks taking him out at the same times and everytime i made him hit the bell with his paw. And now he goes to the door and hits the bell with his nose and we go out. But it took us a while to get there. For the marking have you tried a bellyband before?

:p We tried the bell, he was scared of it :rolleyes: Yes we have tried the bellybands, He kinda used them as diapers- LOL Not sure if I was using them right but he would just pee in them...

Awww you're not a failure! I don't really have any advice, but just keep at it! Peanut sure is a cutie :D

LOL! Ralph wasnt scared of it thank goodness...until last month when my dad came to visit...he decided to chase Ralph around the house and now ralph thinks the bell is a toy so the bell is gone but he still goes to the door. I have never used the band just heard of it. Some dogs are stubborn it doesnt make you a bad mom! (:

You are not a failure at all! Knock that nonsense off!:p

Gimoz when he was little liked to pee on bathroom rugs, so I just started closing all the bathroom doors. Is it possible to confine Mr. Peanut's access of the house until he can be trusted a little bit more?

What about belly bands? Those actually helped us with potty training because Gizmo hated them being on and hated the feeling if he wet in it.

Thank you- We have a special bond so he is lucky for that!! He is a wonderful dog, besides that of course. I have never seen him not like someone, he loves to meet everyone. In fact if someone doesn't give him the attention he wants he will make sure he gets it LOL. He is always near me, he always knows when I need him the most, he is such a sweet dog. He has such a great personality, He gives me so much unconditional love- I can deal with the accidents!


LoL Oh No!! I am sure Ralph had a great time with Gpa didn't he!! I tried to put the band on when he was home, I figured " He wont want to pee in it" Well I was wrong he just peed in the band LOL.

LOL I cant help it!! Peanut does only have access to the kitchen, living room and dining room- The only place I can put a gate up is the hall- which is where the room and bathrooms are-

:sidesplt: Peanut loved the bands, Loved them so much he peed in them and didnt mind it!

Oh Mr.Peanut...What is your Momma gonna do with you!:p:eek:

LOL oh yes he did. Oh no hahah. I never got the band. I know my old boss used it with her male yorkie he stood like a deer in headlights when he had it on! I am so thankful ralph doesnt even know how to lift his leg! When he sees other dogs do it he just stares like hes so fascinated how they are able to do that. Lol

LoL.... He is a special one :D

LOL, Ya Peanut loved the bands, I thought to myself I better take these off or he will be like a 90 year old man and not know how to control his urge haha

Oh Peanut loves to hike his leg- When we go walking he hikes his leg on anything he can, to the point where he hikes and nothing comes out, but he will still prance off like he is something!! Sometimes he hikes his leg so high he tumbles over!! :p

How old is Ralph? Is he your only doggy?

I'm right there with you! Mine will be 2 in July. Similar situation as yours, went from an apartment to a house and she's just not getting it. And she loves to pee on the bathroom rugs as well. I don't know how well it's going to work bc I just bought them, but I bought the washable pee pads one of the members here sells (Washable and reusable dog and puppy pee pads, belly bands, and diapers by T. Bumpkins & Co.). I'm going to remove the rugs from the bathroom so she gets used to going on those and put them in all of her "spots" to go potty in. Mine loves to go in the kitchen too, next to the dinning table of all places, and doesn't seem to think there is anything wrong with that. :rolleyes: So I'm hoping that by putting the pads in all of her favorite spots she will at least get pee pad trained. Have you tried that? Hang in there! Peanut will get it. He's so cute you can't really get mad at him for it. :p

Wow they sound very similar- What is your little girls name?

I bought the belly bands from Cathy (T-Bumpkins) She is amazing! Her work is stunning, I was upset they didnt work for us, bc they were so cute!! Let me know if the bands work for you, I have some extra pad things that are just sitting in my drawer, I will send them to you if they work for you!!

I never really get mad for him, that is probably the issue LOL. It is just pee!! Lucky for us we have the fake wood floors so it is easy cleaning!!

Wow! Thanks so much :) I will definitely let you know. Her name is Stormy. I guess she's just trying to live up to her name. ;)

The only things I could say to try you likely have already tried, but I can assure you are not the first, the last, or the only one who's had some kind of puddle trouble from the canine kingdom. Please...please-please-please-please-please...do not feel it is your fault your Peanut shares a different sense of correct potty habits than you like. If they were all perfect, the mop and doggie diaper folks would be out of business, you know! :D

Sometimes they have difficulty differentiating between which texture is a potty texture and which is not, too. Sometimes they just don't seem to wanna...! :p

I had a 'Doodle' who was meticulously trained for outdoor potty. I say that like it really happened when in fact the training DID happen, but the learning/compliance did NOT! I had a fenced back yard I took him out in and I swear he would wait..legs crossed...however long it took outside for me to believe I must have just not seen him puddle and that he could not have held it thaaaat long and let him back into the house...hours, even...whereupon he would run to the hallway and flood the area. :eek::confused::rolleyes::p

He also never quite grasped how the game of 'fetch' is played. Oh, he'd chase the ball, all right, but would put it down and run back without it...and you couldn't 'trick' him into bringing it with him. His idea of "fetch" was for me to go get the ball wherever he'd laid it down. :p

He was a gorgeous long-haired sweetie...but a defiant little lovable rascal. I don't now if he would have ever 'got' it...he passed as an adolescent after a guest let him out front where he met the 'wrong' parts of a car.

I trained dogs before, and after him with complete success...but not him. :D

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I can't get mad at mine for it either. I can't even raise my voice bc I feel bad! Everyone tells me to smack her with a newspaper or fly swatter and I just feel bad for their dogs! I'd rather have accidents than smack her. It just makes me want to smack them instead. :p

LoL love her name!! No problem would love to give them to someone who can use them!!

I love her name...I named my Yorkie-Poo "Stormy" because as a little puppy he was very energetic...not destructive, just whirlwind-like. Yours is the first I've seen with that name is all these year! Love it...! :D

Thank you- I am sorry you lost him, he sounds a lot like my Peanut-A very special little guy I am sure he was.

Peanut is pretty smart, I have taught him a handful of tricks, High Five, sit, stay, down, speak, roll over, we are working on " play dead" cant seem to get that one yet- Also if I put a his fav bone or treat in my hand and grab around it, show him both hands in a fist he will pick which hand the toy/ treat is in. I recently taught him to bark and point to the hand that has it, He will also fetch and bring the toy back- I know he is a smarty pants, but the potty traning is not is specialty! :D

hahah oh no!

Ahah that is so funny! I see small dogs like that when I walk Ralph and poor Ralph just watches and he just doesn't get what they are doing. But I am glad he doesn't know how!

Ralph will be 2 in June (: Right now he is my only dog, I had a yorkie a while ago and had to give him to a friend because of some stuff going on in my family. But I want to get a little girl yorkie named Lauren, so I could have Ralph and Lauren, but Ralph would not be keen on that...if i am on my laptop to long he knows how to hit it closed with his nose...hehehe but I created the spoiled monkey :blush::p

Oh he is a clever little guy! I guess they can't all be good at everything. :D

LoL Ralph is probably like, hmm I wonder If I can do that.... But I wonder what they are doing HAHA~

LOL Ralph and Lauren- That is good! I just love Poodles! Esp the toy's they are so cute!! How much does he weigh? My cousin has a toy poodle, she is white, her name is Pinky. She is a little doll!

Peanut is the same way! He LOVES to be the only one. I had another yorkie male, his name was Pigpen- thats where the 2 P's come from in my screen name. He was a handful! I had to rehome him.. At the time we were living in a condo, he needed way more room, a backyard and someone to entertain him 27/7 I found the perfect family for him. 3 kids, ages 1, 5 and 10, Stay at home Mom, big house with grass and a pool!! I knew in my heart it was perfect! She even called me a month later and say Pigpen is already trained to go potty outside!! I knew then it was the right thing to do and I wasn't sad or hurt anymore~

I guess we all have our flaws! :D

You aren't a failure. Ive had a lot of people tell me Yorkies are hard to house train, and the boys are the hardest, even if they are neutered. So it sounds to me a lot of people have been in the same boat. Also we are right now trying to train Gypsy, she has good days and bad. Honestly her good days seem to be more a matter of our timing being in line with when she just feels like going, so not really sure it's sinking in yet, lol.

Thanks- Yorkies are def a breed of their own aren't they~ :rolleyes: They are lucky they are so stinking cute!