OMG Do They Ever Stop Peeing IN The House
 

Really at my wits end with this dog. Just saw that he peed on my ottomon in my living room. I have never never had a dog like this. I am really discouraged. I know I can crate him and I can put diapers on him but what am I going to do crate him for life. That would be crule. Can not crate him 24/7. And then what your suppose to have diapers on them 24/7 too. Has anyone had a yorkie that has peed in their house its whole life. He is 11 months old. I really hope he grows out of it but I don't see that happening.

Hi....Have you tried pee pads?...I use them held by a plastic frame so Teddi doesnt tear or pull them....I know it would be ideal for our dogs to toilet outside, but the pee pads work a treat for me and keep the house clean....I had to remove my lovely shag rug from the living room 'cause Teddi loved to wee on it....I know how frustrated you must be feeling right now and your dog has left his scent at all the places he has used....I know people here on YT will give you more information about crating.....hope you find a solution....:animal-pa

I gave mine a treat everytime they went outside and went potty

I know how you feel. I have a 2 year old female Yorkie who still pees in the house! I have crate trained her since day one, taken her out every hour and only been in 1/2 hour and find she has gone on the floor. She knows it's wrong because she takes off when I find it. She also has marked since 10 weeks old. She was spayed at 4 months. I now have a 6 month male yorkie who I got 1 month ago and he is fully trained. Only made 2 mistakes the first week we had him. He will cry to go out but Maggie will only cry to go out to poop. You cannot take your eyes off of her or she will pee! I just has her checked for bladder problems but all her blood work was good. She also had liver shunt surgery 5 months ago and her liver was 1/5 the size it should be. I am afraid to try pee pads because I do not want the other one to start using them as he does very well at going outside about every 3 or 4 hours and is 4 1/2 lbs and Maggie is 6 1/2 lbs. I wish I knew the answer,lol

Is this pup neutered.....if you can neuter them before they start marking, that will usually keep them from hiking their leg on everything.....as far as squatting and peeing, put a belly band on him, and take him outside every 3 hours, take the pee pad off, tell him a command you want to use (Go TT!) let him pee and when he does, give him a treat and lavish lavish praise! Put the belly band back on, go back inside....3 hours later, repeat....do this for a week....then go to 5 hour trips....and repeat....in another week, go to 8 hours, repeat! When you are not home with him, he will have to be crated or isolated in one small room. Housebreaking these babies can be a challenge like none you have ever encountered! You must be consistant, persistant, diligent and determined! He is trying to make you do this HIS way.....you have to be smarter and more determined than he is, that it is YOUR house, YOU are the boss, and HE will do it YOUR way!!!

Way long ago I raised a couple of German Shepherds from 6-8wks...The first was housebroken by the end of day three (completely), the other took longer--all of a week! I've had my Piper-girl for about 8 months; she's four yrs and I'm still working on housebreaking! I act all excited when asking is she want to go outside, watch her and if she's not concentrating, I call her back in and try later. If she does her business, I get even more excited when calling her in and give her a piece of (canned) chicken, all the while telling her what a good, good girl she is...Basically, when I'm home, Piper is 99% housebroken. The 9 hrs I'm at work is another story; sometimes the house is spotless, sometimes I come home to a barn, sometimes she uses pads, other times not...Our little sweethearts are notoriously intelligent, infamously stubborn, and relentlessly determined. And I couldn't be happier with Piper, all of her quirks, that silly little personality, her sweet nature, her patience...I love her beyond all reason and wouldn't change one thing. I am sure you'll get your little guy housebroken--just remember, you've met your match! You'll make it!!!

I personally think diapers are cruel and not going to teach him anything. You have to start from the beginning. Limit the space he is allowed by using a play pen. Take him potty every hour and praise him with a treat when he goes. Mine is completely potty trained and would not go inside no matter what.

I'm still working on mine. Sometimes I think he is trained and then he will pee and poop I the house. I feel your pain.

How do you know when they are trained? Is there a set an out of time?

ya its crazy no rhyme of reason. He will go on the pad for days and hold it in all night and when I am at work. He only pees when I am home with him. I hate to have him locked in the kitchen 24.7 so I let him come in the living room with us when we are watching tv and he will jump down and lift his leg and pee on the couch or the ottomon with us right there!! I really believe he is the devil and will always pee in my house!! LOL

Is he neutered?????? He is marking........some people have managed to housebreak this behavior...I have never actually seen it, but I do not think you will see that any time soon! Put a belly band on that baby so he doesnt ruin all your furniture! Putting a bellyband on a male dog is no worse than putting a diaper on a baby! It is only "cruel" if you LEAVE a sopping wet, peed in belly band on the pup!!! You KNOW to CHANGE the pee pad inside the belly band every 3-4 hours if need be....remember, marking only involves a couple of squirts of pee, not a copmplete bladder emptying, so changing the pad every 3-4 hours should be more than enough! No guilt in putting a belly band on that boy!

Sounds like he is marking. Is he fixed?

SIGH - Teddy pees IN his band. Like really pees.


Boy dogs can be frustrating!

Yes he is neutered. My last dog wore diapers at the end because he was 16 and had dementia and I remember saying when he was gone, I do not miss the diapers!! Now I have a new young dog and I never thought I would have to do that with a young dog!! I really do not want to have to put him in a belly band for his whole life and change a belly band several times a day. That is just crazy!!

Then you have to step up on the potty training. Start from scratch.

Not suggesting every day, all day long, for the rest of his life! Just until you manage to get him trained....but you are going to have to POTTY TRAIN him! The belly band just keeps your stuff from getting peed on until you get him trained. Belly bands or housebreaking....both are going to require effort! Dont know how old he was when you had him neutered, if he had already started marking....or if there is a female around....good luck, and gird your loins for a good battle of wits!!!!

I ran into the same issue with my dog, Chewie It took me a solid 18 months to house break him. Tried wee-pads at first and they seemed to work well. However, every area rug in the house turned into a wee-pad. So started over from scratch, ditched the pads, and trained him to go outside. Seemed like he was never going to figure it out, but he slowly made progress.

IMO, keeping them on a leash in the house is the best method. This way they are always in eye sight and you can correct them immediately. It's really important to catch them in the act and it greatly speeds up the process. It will also help you learn how to read your dog and when he needs to go. Remedial training is also important. Once he is house broken, don't stop praising and offering treats. Keep doing it...always.

I know it's aggravating and believe me I've been there, but it's worth the patience and hard work. Chewie is four now and he sleeps with us every night. Literally under the covers and curled up to my wife's stomach. He still has an accident once in awhile, but its rare, and usually our fault (i.e. we didn't hear him scratch). Now, only if I can get him to stop hounding everyone to play with him the second they walk in the door...lol.

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Bella i just over 2 years old we still have times when she wont use one of the many pee pads. We keep the upstairs blocked off and the living room unless we are with her. It has been so cold here in Ontario this winter I dont know how we would have been able to out door train her.

I know how your feeling I sometime wonder if it will ever be different.

We do the treats and praise to the point we sound very silly put if it works I will be silly. It seems like she just doesnt get it.

I bought a really good carpet cleaner lol and lot of natures miracle.

I feel for you, I had a male that had access to his pee pad 24/7 and used it frequently, but still would wet on throw rugs or the welcome mat when the spirit moved him. It was hard to figure out how to break him of that because he knew it was wrong but did it anyway even though he had access to his pad.

I now have a female who refused to use a pad so I tried outside and she housebroke very easily. I use the bell method, I have a ribbon with a bunch of jingle bells on the end tied on the door knob, when she rings it I take her our by leash to the same spot and don't walk her around, after she does her business she gets a treat, since she wants her treat she goes quickly. I like the bell because she knows how to tell me she wants out, often dogs have no clue how to tell you they want out. The bell is helpful when we travel because as soon as she sees me hang it somewhere she knows that is how she will get out to do her business.

I know it is often the most practicle situation to have your pup use a pad especially for those that work long hours or live where it is hard to let a dog out. But I honestly believe that there are VERY few pad trained dogs that never go some where in the home other than on the pad. Even if they only have one "accident" a week, if you have nice carpet that gets old pretty quick, plus it makes it almost impossible to take your dog to other people's homes. I also don't believe it's an accident because I think once they start getting older they know where to go, they just don't feel like always going there. A vet once told me that it is not natural for a dog to go inside, and if you force them to do it you will only be asking for trouble.

Ya I think unfortunately leaving the pad down it means okay I can go in the house where ever I want. He is confusing the rugs for pee pads. My brother keeps a pee pad down for his dog and his dog is 6 and she never has a problem going off the pee pad. But then again he has a female. I think it is a boy thing!!

my girl is pee pad trained and I love it, I just lay two down in my bedroom and she goes in there and pees every time. I was worried about it because I had heard how hard they are to train but I kept at it and she is doing great. I suggest that you start over and maybe give the pee pads a try, my pup doesn't tear them up or anything. When she poos I use toilet paper and pick it up and flush it and change the pads only when they have been wet on a couple times. I didn't want to train her outside because I work all day and my husband had a liver transplant and I didn't want him to be out in the bad weather and this winter has been horrible in Ohio. Best of luck!

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I hang a pee pad outside on the fence and JoJo knows to go out there. Lately he has left a turd on the kitchen floor because I left him to go to the grocery. He usually goes outside. He has marked the back of the couch. Why do you think God made our Yorkies so cute! So when they mess up they look at us with that, "Did I do that?" look and we just melt. Try the pee pads but outside. I made up my mind I did not want that 10 lb Yorkie peeing in my house! So I keep on after him taking him out often, even in the middle of the night so he does not Mark!

My dog and my parents dog (both YT's obviously) are both pad trained and never have accidents in the house -ever. Teddy has been trained since he was 14 weeks old.

BUT, he does mark and that is separate to peeing and potty training. My parents dog is a male but he doesn't mark or lift his leg to go!


Dogs vary so much in their temperament that it is so hard to make general statements about the best thing to do .. I just think you have to make decisions on an individual basis and do the best you can with the knowledge that you have!


I tried belly bands but they aren't working out for us... So, Teddy doesn't go anywhere unsupervised at the minute because, as soon as he's out of site, he will mark. I am hoping that tethering him to me and keeping him under strict supervision for a few weeks will deter the habit but I'm not hopeful. I think I'll struggle with this for as long as I have him..


It sucks but not his fault! He's not the only male who misses the mark in this house!!!!!

How do you do the bell system??? I would like to try this for Spice.

I am pressed for time today, but I will reply in the next day, or you can search my posts here, in the past I have typed some lengthy ones on how I did it. LOL the potty topic comes up a lot on YT because Yorkies are hard to housebreak.

Below is a good thread that discussed pad vs outside, I have some comments on their that might be helpful, but it does not explain the way I trained her on the bells, will try to find it


http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...-pee-pads.html

found another good thread on potty training, I have several posts on there about how I trained her to ring the bell. I am also a strong believe in having her potty on command and on a leash makes life so much easier when you know when they went and what they did. My sister has big yard and her yorkie goes out and plays then comes in and goes on the floor

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...ng-advice.html