Yes, the crate is in my bedroom. Right next to my bed on the floor. I don't think she will get fat because she gets over 2 hours of exercise a day. 1 1/2 hours of walking and then she runs around the house chasing her ball CONSTANTLY. I do, however, moniter her weight and if she feels at all like she is putting on weight, I cut back on her food. Like when I broke my toe end of July. We couldn't do our daily walks and she WAS putting on weight, so I had to cut back on the food. I think that is when all this started with her waking up in the middle of the night wanting food.

I made the mistake of giving her a snack one night and that was it, everything snowballed from there. Cripes, these Yorkies are something else, I have to say!!

I had done the same thing, with her crate on a coffee table next to my bed. But I got sick and tired of having to lift the crate off the table and put it on the floor to let her out, so I just put the crate on the floor. Maybe this confused her and that is part of the reason she keeps waking up. I also went through the sleeping on the couch with her thing. That is when she would sleep through the night and wake up at 5:00. I would get up and go on the couch and we would fall back to sleep till 7:00. Boy, I thought THAT was bad, now I so wish I had that back! At least I got to sleep all night till 5:00.

sportschick: why do you have to put the crate on the floor to let her out,
can't you just open the door and lift her out? Emy's not allowed to free
roam the house, so I carry her from the bedroom to the kitchen, where
she is babygated, and I carry her to the livingroom to the couch. She only
has access to kitchen and front entry where I have that gated also with
another crate. Keep front door open so she can look outside, works out
good so far, don't trust her yet, she still chews alot.

Wow! We lucked out with our girl! Audrey has slept through the night without a peep in her crate since the first night we brought her home at 8 weeks old.

You're in a sticky situation with landlord neighbors who can hear her....It sounds like you have a good plan to work on, I hope it works out for you and you get some sleep.

Sam has slept with me since i got him he loves cuddling up with his mummy and i love having him with me, he has his supper at 8 and then he is let out to do his poops etc we go to bed at 9ish and he has a play on the bed and is usually asleep by 10 and he sleeps all night till 7 when the kids get up for school so am lucky as he is only 13 weeks old

I used to have to do that with her because, you are right, you can't trust them for a LONG time not to pee and poop wherever they want. Now I can just open the crate door and she runs into the kitchen on the pee pad. When I am home, she has the run of the house. When I go to work, I allow her the kitchen and the living room and I put another pee pad tray in the living room. MOST of the time she is very good, but she does have her "incidents" which usually involve her not getting her way and I swear she gets back at me by peeing or pooping on the floor NEXT to the pee pad tray.

Now she has decided that when we go for our daily walks, she will just stop. I end up having to drag her forward. She will do this every few minutes now. She just stops, sniffs the ground and then wants to look around at everything, THEN she will move forward. I mean what the heck is going on with this doggie?? Is it equivalent to the terrible twos in children? She never did that before, as a matter of fact, she would walk/jog so fast that I had to jog with her. She has these long, long legs that really move. And she will lift her leg up and try and sniff her pee pee area. I am assuming she wants to pee, but she very seldom will pee outside. She will hold it till we get home and go on the pee pad.

I do hope that her legs aren't bothering her and that is why she keeps stopping or that she has some kind of urinary tract infection.

I am curious if anyone else has gone through these types of things when their Yorkie hit the above 12 month old stage, and if so, how long does this last? In other words, is all this stuff "normal" for these little doggies or should I worry that something is going on with her physically.

This is my first dog, and I am having to learn everything and I want to make sure I do things right and keep her healthy and safe.

LOL, Emy does the same thing....when we go for a walk, she is constantly sniffing, sniffing, sniffing, it drives me nuts, I'm always gently tugging on
her while she's sniffing, cause I know the next thing will be whatever it is will be going into her mouth. She also walks for a ways, then just stops and lays down, I have to pull her then release when she starts walking again. Sometimes I can't keep up with her she puts it in overdrive and just wants
to run, I'm going to get her a treadwheel, she needs to run run run, and I'm
not a runner. She's only 6 months old, and I swear the terrible twos thought has gone through my mind alot recently.

Abby(dob- July 18,2011), has pretty consistently slept in her crate since she came home at 11 weeks (Maybe except for the first 3-4 day break in, when no one got any sleep) but now for the last week she has been waking at 3:30 am and making this crazy whirring cry,she can go on forever and if she stops she starts up again 1/2 hour later. I checked her the first night to make sure she was ok but she just wanted to play! now we will just wait it out, hopefully she will give up soon! These teenage times are hard but how the problems are handled will make a difference in how well they behave.

OK, ot seems like it is not we humans doing anything wrong, it is our Yorkies that just decide they are going to make us miserable for awhile.

That being said, I guess we just have to deal with their "quirks". Which is fine, I wouldn't want any other doggie. I walk a lot in where I live and I see all kinds of dogs, small, medium, large. I wouldn't trade my Beanie Boo for the best behaved dog I have seen. And there are so many that just walk nicely while their owner yaps on a cell phone. AHAHAHAHHAHA, there is NO WAY I could talk on a phone while walking her. I need both hands to guide her leash and if she even has an inkling of being free, she will vacuum up everything in her path.

Oh god Jackson is THE quirkiest dog ever. He can drive me nuts at times, I swear.

He's nearly 4 now and he can just be .... so WEIRD haha. He's terrified of 4 major things: fly swatting, the smoke alarm, loud thunderstorms, and gun shot type noises. So ANY of these things will completely set him off .. i.e. acting weird, won't go to sleep, pacing, whining, etc. and because he's scared of fly swatting - it, in turn, makes him scared of flies/bugs. So if God forbid there is a fly in our bedroom at night, he sits by the gate and wants to get out and doesn't want to sleep.

He remembers everything... my mom set off the smoke alarm by cooking in the oven. We had something in our oven and so she ended up doing two nights in a row. NOW he's just terrified of the smoke alarm, but also smoke. He associates any kind of smoke with the smoke alarm now.

The problem really is: he's very smart! lol. He's also very well trained though. But having a smart dog can be awesome and incredible, but it can come with it's quirks too! I'm so glad I am not alone, LOL...

O.K., what is a tread wheel and where can one purchase it? I would so LOVE to get one for Beanie, especially when winter comes. We had a very mild winter last year when I got her, but I am afraid this winter is going to be brutal here in New England. And you know what that means, no walking and now walking means a nutty little Yorkie!!

ahahahahaha, you cracked me up with the fly swatting. That is TOO FUNNY. A dog afraid of fly swatting and I thought my dog was quirky. Beanie loves loud noises. The louder the better, she will try and run after motorcycles, the street cleaning machine, etc. When there is a storm with lightening and thunder, she sits up on the arm of the couch and watches it. She also didn't mind the fireworks. She thinks the freakin Dyson vacuum is a toy and tries to bite it. I have to block her off from the carpeted area of my house when I vacuum because the thing is so powerful, it would suck her right up. I swear she is nuts!!

One thing I used on Gracie when she was a naughty puppy was to get a rolled up news paper. I never hit her with it but I would either hit it against my hand or an end table or something to get her attention. It was quite effective. Of course I would also tell her "NO" at the same time. Maybe that is way the "NO" is so effective now.

Gracie has her own fleece blanket and a queen sized pillow that she loves to sleep on while on my bed but as I have said, when she gets chilly she wants to be right up next to me or under the blanket. I sleep on a memory foam mattress so I don't move around much at night. I don't mind her cuddling and she has her own steps so if she needs to get down at night she can get up and down herself. Yup, I have adapted myself to her quite well! Or she has trained me quite well I guess.

Maybe you could leave a little food down in her dish at night so she can snack without bothering you at night. Gracie has never been a big eater so I have never had to deal with a night time snacker.

Years ago when we first got our Shih Tzu we lived in an apartment. I tried to crate train but he made so much noise at night I couldn't do it without disturbing the neighbors. Apartment dwellers have to find other options.

I feel your pain. I live out in a wooded area that just crawls with wildlife at night especially. So when I walk Gracie she is always smelling all the scents that other animals have left. It used to be she just wanted to walk as fast as possible but now it seems she has turned into a hound dog that wants to smell everything! I always look to see if there is anything where her nose is but sometimes she starts to roll and that is where I draw the line. She gets a 30 second sniff and then I move her on before something more serious (like rolling) starts to happen. I'd never get away with a treadmill because she looks forward to her walks and even knows when I usually take her. If I'm not on time she "reminds" me.

You know I thought about getting a memory foam mattress. I did try laying on one at a store, but I felt like I was "stuck" in the mattress. I slept on one of those "topper" ones at my friends camper and I actually woke up with no back pain, so I started thinking about buying one again. I wonder how Beanie would be on one of those, if she would feel "stuck" in it. But it might make my sleep better and then I wouldn't move around so much which would make HER not move around either.

I am going to get her doggie pajamas to keep her warm, although I can already forsee a huge struggle trying to get her to be still long enough to get her legs into them. And then see if she will even tolerate them on her. She tries to get the little sweaters and coats off of her when I put them on her when it is cold. This dog doesn't like anything confining!!