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10-19-2013, 03:58 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: sterling heights,mi.,macomb co.
Posts: 25
| New yorkie owner OK this is our first Yorkie and my wife is convinced that we will need to put pee pee pads in the bath tub when the cold and snow arrives (soon). It took forever to get him house trained and I am convinced this will undo our hard work and teach that it is OK to go in the house. He doesn't know the difference between a bath tub and the living room carpet.What do you veteran Yorkie people do with your dogs when it is 20F degrees and 6" of snow on the ground? |
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10-19-2013, 04:38 PM | #2 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
Posts: 23,247
| What about a potty patch that looks like grass? Mine absolutely will not go potty any where but outside. I have had to take her out during a pretty bad hurricane and everything. We haven't been getting that much snow the last few years but the first two winters we did and we just shoveled a path and a potty spot.
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10-19-2013, 04:42 PM | #3 |
♥Love My Snuggle Bugs♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Missouri
Posts: 4,290
| It gets really cold here in Missouri also. We keep coats for our two and they do their business outside. I usually have towels warming in the dryer to wrap them in when we bring them in if there is snow or just wet grass out.
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10-19-2013, 04:45 PM | #4 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: North Ridgeville, Oh. US
Posts: 1,396
| My husband shovels a path.
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10-19-2013, 04:46 PM | #5 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: North Ridgeville, Oh. US
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| Oh, sorry, and Welcome!!!!
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10-19-2013, 04:55 PM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
Posts: 226
| Potty pad I don't put the pads in the bath tub. I just put them on the floor in the laundry room. Piper uses the pad and goes outside as well. Jilly only goes outside. Congrats on your pup! |
10-19-2013, 04:59 PM | #7 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
Posts: 23,247
| I wish you where waiting for me with warm towels when I come in lol
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10-19-2013, 05:02 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| Some dig a path in the snow & put a coat on their pup to go potty outside in the winter here in Michigan. I've always pad trained as it's the most convenient for me with my lifestyle & work hours. As to not knowing the difference between the bathtub & living room carpet.... I've trained my dog where to go, not just on what to go. Her potty area is in one spot in the house, and that is the only place she gets rewarded (a treat) for going. She picked up on the training very quickly and doesn't go potty anywhere else in the house. Just like kids get trained to go to the bathroom to potty and don't just squat and go anywhere in the house.
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10-19-2013, 06:35 PM | #9 |
♥Love My Snuggle Bugs♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Missouri
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| Lol I have tried to train DH to do that for me but he is a no go.
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10-19-2013, 06:53 PM | #10 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: sterling heights,mi.,macomb co.
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10-19-2013, 07:03 PM | #11 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| No. I suggest you get up, forgo the dressing, and go outside and quickly shovel a small area. Then you'll realize why your pup might prefer to have a coat on rather than go outside nekid himself!
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10-19-2013, 07:45 PM | #12 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Sayreville, NJ, and Stuart Fl,
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10-19-2013, 07:48 PM | #13 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Redondo beach
Posts: 675
| Mine is trained to potty on a pad during the night, or when I can't get a walk in, like if I'm at a doctors appt or something, and he also is trained to go outside on walks as well. I'm just wondering how your yorkie will get in and out of the bath tub? How old is your yorkie and how big? They can et injured very easy from just a small height. I think of it this way, it's better to have Gizmo go on a pad then on my floor :-) I also have an exercise pen that his potty pad is in, and there are some you can buy (like the Richell one I have) that have a tray in the whole bottom of the pen, so nothing ever gets on the floor :-) |
10-19-2013, 08:31 PM | #14 |
♥Love My Snuggle Bugs♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Missouri
Posts: 4,290
| Believe me these little ones are smart and they do know the difference if trained right from the carpet and the pee pads.
__________________ CharleneMama to Laddy and Kyra and Always in our hearts Lolita |
10-20-2013, 09:38 AM | #15 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Arkansas
Posts: 1,310
| My husband was also very much against potty pads. However, I've been using them in addition to outdoors bathroom anyway against his will. Barney could not be contained in his play pen. He kept escaping. So we have been working on potty pad training and he's doing fairly well. I keep his pad by the same door that he uses to go out to do his business when we're home. DH came over to the dark side. It is much handier if the dogs know how to use both. When we're home, they go out. When we are at work and during the night they use the potty pads. In the big picture, potty pads are not something worth arguing about. If it grosses you out, let your wife be in charge of changing the pads.
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