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10-05-2014, 08:52 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: South Florida, USA
Posts: 64
| Jeter's potty training success! My little Jeter turned 3 mos old yesterday , it's been exactly two weeks since I brought him home and he is the smartest puppy ever! . He is already about 90% housebroken already! When he is awake we take him out every 45 min to an hour unless he has been drinking water then we take him out roughly 15 min after he has water. I place him in a patch of grass in front of the front door and tell him to go potty and he pees almost immediately. My 8 year old, DaVinci, is 100% pad trained and only goes out for exercise and to socialize but he might go while outside. The breeder told me she'd started potty training Jeter a few weeks prior to me taking him home, I watched him go to the sliding glass door to go out before taking him to his new home and thought that was pretty good for an 11 week old puppy. Since he hasn't had all of his shots yet I didn't want to take him outside yet because I live in a condo and don't have a private area for him outside and most of my neighbors have dogs. Fortunately everyone picks up after their dogs so there isn't any poo from others in the grass. I tried to get Jeter to go on the pee pads but he wasn't having it so I decided that he will go outside after carefully inspecting outside to be sure there isn't any poo from other dogs in the area I take him to do his business. He wasn't leash trained so for the first few days I would just put him in the grass and he would go. It took 2 days to leash train him and he no longer fears the leash. A few nights ago it had rained a lot and on our walk we encountered tiny little frogs jumping out of the grass in my puppy's face while trying to sniff out a spot to go. I freaked and picked him up and brought him inside immediately, I would rather clean pee off the tile floor than he get really sick and possibly die from swallowing a baby frog, in Florida we have poisonous frogs, snails, and slugs, eww. There were a few times he had gone on the pee pads because he loves to do everything he sees his big brother do so I decided to put down a lot more pee pads throughout my apartment in all the places he's had accidents inside. Now, every time he pees or poops outside he gets a treat and praise, the few times mom or I saw him pee on the pads we do the same, it's really cute because he looks at us as he goes knowing a treat will follow. As soon as I added more pee pads inside he went over to the pad all by himself, no command to go potty, and peed, we gave him treats and praise. Because of the rain and it was nighttime and dark I was not taking him outside in the dark because he has to put everything in his mouth. I guess he just didn't want to pee on the same pad his big brother is using. He is now pooping and peeing on the pads, he sleeps in bed with me since day one and gets up during the night and goes on the pads. He's had very few accidents in the house in the past four days since using the pads! We still take him out for walks during the day but once it gets dark no more outside. He already knows the command no, he stops whatever he is doing as soon as I say no or Jeter no. He also knows sit, stay, and stop! We are working on come and lay down. Sorry for such a long post, I am just so proud of him and his learning so much in so little time. At this rate he will be completely housebroken in no time ! I am one proud momma! |
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10-06-2014, 07:48 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Wow, what an amazing little fella - SO SMART! Wish I was as good a trainer as you are .
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10-06-2014, 08:33 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: South Florida, USA
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| I really think training is easier for some dogs then others. My older yorkie was no where near as easy, he wasn't difficult but my mom wasn't living with me at that time so he didn't have the benefit of someone always being at home to take him out. He really didn't like going outside and preferred pee pads and went for walks to exercise and socialize. Jeter is doing both and it's making life easier, I don't have to take him out in the rain or late at night, he gets out of bed and goes on the pads until I get up in the morning. |
10-06-2014, 08:15 PM | #4 |
YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: FL
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| Wow! Way to go Jeter! I've been wanting to start potty training Teddy but I'm too scared to bring him outside as there's so many people who own bigger dogs in my neighborhood who clearly just do not care about what their pet is doing when they're being walked. So I'm waiting till his last set of shots, he's taken really well to the puppy pads too! He'll be 11 weeks on the 8th. Also it's been a bit rainy and living in FL I know exactly what you mean about the frogs! Yuck. This cooler season coming up hopefully they disappear for a little while. Jeter is definitely one smart little guy though, I wish my Teddy would cuddle with me. He has far more interest in his crate then cuddling with mommy lol. |
10-07-2014, 12:06 PM | #5 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: South Florida, USA
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| That's a benefit of not using a crate, more cuddling for me. Both of my boys are curled up on my lap happy momma is home early from work. |
10-08-2014, 04:34 AM | #6 | |
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and thank you for sharing the information. I always share these types of training thoughts with my customers, and people at the shelter. I volunteer at a shelter, and we support other shelters. You would be amazed at how many people are too lazy to work with their dogs as you have here! They drop their dog of at the shelter for "housebreaking issues" when if they would have just take the time as you have to work with your baby and communicate expectations they would have made a life long friend. Maybe placing these dogs in a new home is better in the long run, but being at the shelter is a traumatic event for these dogs. Thank you for taking the time with Jeter, and sharing the experience here.
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10-08-2014, 04:35 AM | #7 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | Wileys mom, LOL you made my morning with the unicorn comment, I'll use that quote
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