Potty pad training poll for fun!

[Zeus is Loved]

We brought Zeusy home at 11 weeks, and he was trained by 13 weeks to pee. The poo took about a week longer, so 14 weeks totally trained. He has never had 1 accident in our home. We did not crate train. We gated him in our laundry room which has enough room for bed, food, water, and pads (with a small amount of room to move outside of those areas). He was changed to gating in the kitchen/laundry room with lots of room to move at about 15 weeks. He now has free reign of our den, kitchen, and laundry room. He used to be able to go the bedroom, but we had to take his ramps away from him due to luxating patellas and Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease. Since it is upsetting for him to not be able to get on "his" king size bed during the day, we gate him out of that room now.

[Zeus is Loved]

aweitzm1, I'm totally with you. When we set up the laundry room for training, we put the pads by the door to the garage because we didn't want his bed by the door (cold drafts). Now, we have tried several times to move the pads over in the laundry room away from the door; and I'm here to tell you, it traumatizes poor Zeusy. He just sits there and looks where the pad should be and waits.

I wanted to add that, although Zeusy goes inside at our house, he will go outside everywhere else, i.e my work, my mom's house.

[Russpilot]

We are still working on it in this house! Most times we have no problem at all, but then all of a sudden, no one can hit pads to save their lives.

[alaskayorkie]

I knew nothing about potty training when I got Eddie at 3 months. It took another 6 months for him to be what I'd call 100 percent -- not on pad but going outside. Never pad trained him.

I pad trained Jillie, and she picked up the pad within weeks in her Xpen but she still had accidents when we let her have free rein outside of the pen. We got her at 3 months old, and she was 100 percent by the time she was 8 months old. Now she uses pad and goes outside interchangeably -- but prefers the pad when it's cold!

[matese]

All my puppies (all now passed) were gotten at 8 weeks old, at 5 months old they were 100% pad trained and no accidents, at 7 months old they were 100% house broken with no accidents and had free roam of house while I was at work.

[Rachael1983]

Emma used the pad at her breeder and did very well the first few weeks but then she started by passing the pad for carpet. So then thats when I started taking her outside and didn't give her the chance to pee in the house. Now that its cold she won't poo outside but we've worked on the peeing thing and that's slightly better since pee is the one that really messes up the floors anyway. (I know my rationale is typical of a yorkie owner)

[chasingbella]

Got my Bella at 12 weeks, one month she was 100% potty trained
She has had 2 accidents, once right after her shots and again recently while sick😕My Boy got him at 12 weeks, he will be a year in Feb and everyday can still be a challenge sometimes! Both pad trained, I am finding it to be a bit more challenging with my male

[Minnie2015]

Wow! Ringing door bells? That's awesome. Any photos of door bell or better- videos of them ringing? So interesting.

[Minnie2015]

When summer comes- those of you who have been using pee pad indoors, any experience or tips with transitioning Yorkies to pee outside? Husband and I both go to work so she obviously can't hold her pee for 7-8 hours long in house. I guess there will always be a pee pad indoor?

[JT YorkieMom]

Mine will not use the pad at all. She is great about letting me know when she needs to go out and for those extremely rare occasions when I'm late and she's fed up with waiting, she goes right next to the pad. Fractions of an inch would make all the difference, but it wouldn't make the same statement.

[LoveMyBeowulf]

Originally Posted by Ryleesmom

We got our puppy 5 days ago at 8 weeks so we are still working on pad training. So far she is doing great! She hasn't pooped anywhere other than on the pad in the last few days and she pees on the pad about 80% of the time. She hasn't made her way out of the living room yet and we have no rugs in there so that makes it easier. If we walk to the kitchen she will just follow us to the end of the living room and stop and wait for us to come back. I'm sure she'll want to explore eventually but we're certainly not giving her any ideas! We use an x-pen and have her puppy pad on a holder inside of that.

OMG! I love the way you set her crate up!

[LoveMyBeowulf]

I got my baby at 3 months and it took me about 1 1/2- 2 months to get him fully trained! He still has "accidents" though

[TysonMyBoy]

WE got Rin at 12 weeks old. She was "crated" in an x-pen with bed, food and potty pad. She learned to potty on the pad within two months. WE then transitioned her to gated into my daughters room with potty pad for the next six months (while we worked). Rin never has an accident in the house, although she does occassionally miss by inches.

We got Tyson when he was 13 weeks old. Rin was already a year old. She basically taught Tyson where to potty. He just followed along behind her and did what she did....easy peasy....until

Ernie came along at 8 weeks. Tyson and Rin were four and five years old. Ernie still hasn't gotten the hang of a potty pad. He's now TWO!!! Plus, he began marking at about 8 months. So at four, Tyson thinks he should mark as well. Oh, HE got SCARY momma and we nipped that real quick. But Ernie....well....he's just special . (And my daughter is moving away with him in a few weeks! )

[chasingbella]

Originally Posted by TysonMyBoy

WE got Rin at 12 weeks old. She was "crated" in an x-pen with bed, food and potty pad. She learned to potty on the pad within two months. WE then transitioned her to gated into my daughters room with potty pad for the next six months (while we worked). Rin never has an accident in the house, although she does occassionally miss by inches.

We got Tyson when he was 13 weeks old. Rin was already a year old. She basically taught Tyson where to potty. He just followed along behind her and did what she did....easy peasy....until

Ernie came along at 8 weeks. Tyson and Rin were four and five years old. Ernie still hasn't gotten the hang of a potty pad. He's now TWO!!! Plus, he began marking at about 8 months. So at four, Tyson thinks he should mark as well. Oh, HE got SCARY momma and we nipped that real quick. But Ernie....well....he's just special . (And my daughter is moving away with him in a few weeks! )

Enjoyed your feedback.... I seem to have a little Ernie on my hands too! Chase is 11mos and half the time he will go on his pad and the other half he wants to hike up his leg and find a nice little corner somewhere.... I have to constantly be watching him and on him.....this mommy will never give up on this little guy, I even found a big cat litter box about a week ago at Petsmart and attempted to make it a doggie box! It fits a puppy pad perfectly, it's low on one side for him to get in and really high on the other so he can still hike and I can throw away the pad and rinse off the box, no problem!..... Great idea or so I thought!! He wants nothing to do with it! The minute I put him in, he jumps out! Does it take longer for males to train? My Bella was trained so quickly and is always right on target��

[LoveMyBeowulf]

Originally Posted by airplane

I got Théo and Maezie when they were 11 and 12 weeks old. I didn't bother with potty pad training cause I didn't want them to think its ok to pee and poop inside. Instead I taught them to ring the bell on my back door to let me know they need to go potty and want outside. It took about 6 weeks for them to ring it 100% of the time. Although Maezie, even though she knows how to ring it, won't ring it. Apparently I've heard that's quite normal. Multiple dogs in a household will nominate one of them to be the bell ringer. So Maezie just waits at the door for Théo to ring the bell.

I worked really hard training them and I think I could've had the housetraining part done sooner but I was teaching them loads of things all at once plus they each had to have their own separate training sessions. So it just took a little bit longer. But I love training dogs. It's a great way to really get to know them and bond with them.

Lol That's funny one dog gets nominated to be the "ringer" so funny how their beautiful minds work