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02-22-2014, 04:00 PM | #16 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
Posts: 4,119
| ZoE is pad trained. For us it is best. I work multiple jobs and my schedule can be erratic. I don't expect myself to leave for work in the morning, and not use the bathroom at all, all day long, until I get home in the evening, and I don't expect ZoE to either. Personally, I think it's cruel to force a dog to hold it all day. Having the pads available to her whenever she needs them, just makes sense. Pad training also makes traveling easy. I've put a pad down in bathrooms, my kid's dorm room & apartment, and even in the open trunk of my car, and ZoE will go on it. And living in Michigan, with the horrendously snowy winters, I can't imagine using anything else. There is three feet of snow outside my back door right now and the temps have been below zero many days of the past few months. Who wants to be outside in that?
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02-22-2014, 04:11 PM | #17 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: West Coast
Posts: 96
| Toby *was* 100% outside trained. He would stand at the gate and whine whenever he needed to go out. It *was* great. We would put his harness and leash on, take him outside and he would do his business. Then we brought Max home. Max is not trained at all--and now Toby isn't either. UGH! Max likes to go potty anywhere and everywhere--and at first his favorite place to potty was Toby's crate. We had to nix that one pretty quickly! His least favorite way to potty? On a harness and leash in the yard. So now Toby has regressed and Max isn't trained. It is like having two toddlers in the house.
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02-22-2014, 05:10 PM | #18 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Abbotsford, BC Canada
Posts: 65
| Leo goes outside 90% of the time. I am 90% trained He is 25 weeks old, hardest dog I've ever trained. He will only use the pad if he is left in the x-pen for a few hours. I go out with him every time he goes out. We have a fenced yard ... but he can slip through, he's so tiny. I feel it's best I go out with him anyway, that way I can see what he's done
__________________ Keep calm and Kiss your Yorkie! |
02-23-2014, 11:18 AM | #19 |
YT 1000 Club Member | I have a Doggy Door out to a very secure area for my guys, and it's available to them almost 24/7. The only time they won't go out on their own is when it's raining, and then we put paper down right in front of the Door, and they use it. The minute it stops raining, they're out there !
__________________ Dogs know that you love them, weather you own them or not Mbrs of YT Teapot Club: SNEAKERS since Apr 2011, Ichabod SOON ! RIP my darling Becca. |
02-23-2014, 11:41 AM | #20 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Prince George British Columbia Canada
Posts: 4
| wee pads are good but when you are home take them away |
03-22-2014, 07:53 AM | #21 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: United States
Posts: 12
| Thanks everyone. Since its spring I'm going to train Mickey to use the yard and potty pads on rainy/snowy days. |
03-22-2014, 12:54 PM | #22 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Custer, SD
Posts: 141
| Outside on the lawn! We used pee pads when I first brought her home at 12 weeks, but started taking her outside about a week after I got her. Wanted her to get use to us first since her whole world changed. |
03-22-2014, 04:15 PM | #23 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Huntington, WV
Posts: 2
| Cherry and Sammy go outside, but some mornings I find "presents" in my closet. |
03-22-2014, 06:16 PM | #24 | |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | Quote:
Her ratio is almost perfect now and normally the errors are my fault, like when I forget to open the door to the Pee area. With laminate floors throughout now however its much easier to mop up these occasional mishaps. There are definite compensations though, as a comical little side-show ensues from these digressions. Adopting a pitifully pensive expression, she slinks around, nervously licking her lips looking for a hideaway and then getting very excited when we are reduced to howling with laughter at these dramatic capers. Mostly, 'en toilette' she's very fussy and Irina cuts pads up so providing her with 'fresh surfaces' to address, otherwise alternate pastures are sought to bless! Sometimes during a brain storm of excitement, she'll rush in from her walk, considerately having a fast-forward leak on the way in! We are in a top floor apartment, living only 30 yards from the North Sea. So at my age and with the climate over here this winter, I've been happy to coalesce with her percentage's. Last edited by docmartin; 03-22-2014 at 06:17 PM. | |
03-22-2014, 08:09 PM | #25 |
I ♥ my Cookie Monster! Donating Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: South Texas
Posts: 2,999
| If it's #1 Cookie will usually just go anywhere on the grass, or if it is raining or just rained heavily she'll pee on the back patio. But for #2 she almost always prefers one of the flower gardens in back, even if it's super muddy outside after a rain. She will not poop on the patio.
__________________ Cookie ;;; RIP Minnie |
03-22-2014, 08:33 PM | #26 |
Wee Winston Wiggles Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Kewanee, Illinois
Posts: 9,666
| 100% outside, no matter the weather. He loves being outside. Winston has never gone potty inside, never, not once...since day one @ 8 weeks old. Bragging? Yes! Thank you very much...
__________________ As Ever, Kathy Intruducing Bentley Winston and Spencer: RIP My Sweet Angels |
03-22-2014, 11:02 PM | #27 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Chandler, AZ
Posts: 726
| Lexi goes outside 100% of the time. If we are traveling, she may use a pad in the bathroom. She doesn't really care for being on a leash to go. We have an area that we made just for her. It is a little fenced spot right off our deck. I put a piece of outdoor carpet at the bottom of the stairs and this is where she pees mostly. She goes poo in a flower bed in the bark. On rainy days she may poo on the deck quickly so she can get out of the rain quickly. Kind of a princess. |
03-23-2014, 12:10 AM | #28 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Alaska
Posts: 3,299
| Joel goes only outside, front or back yard, no matter the weather. |
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