How many of you?
 

Was just curious in finding out how many of you have housetrained your yorkie and what you used to do it. Has anyone used belly bands or diapers? Did you use a crate or puppy pads? I have heard a lot of horror stories when it comes to males that if they go in your house, then it is very hard to get them to not go back to that spot. That's why I'm curious if anyone used diapers with their male yorkie or belly bands.
I have been using a crate and that is helping him not go during the night and during the day but it feels like he is in the crate all the time!! I would love to have him out more but when he is out (even if I take him out and he goes potty) he still peeing and pooping all over the house! I'm just wondering if belly bands or a doggy diaper would be a good way to go!
Thanks for the help!
Melanie

Still working on mine, and I use crate training primarily.


:yorkiesar

We were able to be with Oscar ALL the time so were able to take him out constantly. That is the only thing that got him trained - Persistence. We took him out before he had to go potty and stayed out til he had to go...then with lots of praise when he went outside and scolding when he went inside, he got the idea that when you go potty outside, mommy and daddy are happy with you. Now at 18 months, he goes to the door and barks relentlessly until someone takes him outside.

I just have to say that both of your puppies are just the cutest things I have ever seen!! Melt my heart.... :love: !!!
Melanie

We used potty pads, then we put in a doggie door.
Princess was kind of easy. Takes a lot of time,
but they do learn. Lots of praise really works!
Good Luck!!!! :) :) :) :)

How old is he? If he's young it might be too early to expect much. I trained 2 boys at the same time and had no trouble. Jo was about 9 months old when we brought 4 month old Riley home. I was using the crate to train Jo and he was doing fine so we used the crate with Riley and left a wee-wee pad down for him to use if he needed it. We installed a doggie door for them and they took to it immediately. I lock the doggie door at night but I leave a pad on the bathroom floor just in case...it hasn't been used in a couple months but I still put it down. Both of our boys are neutered but they never marked before that so we never had to use belly bands. Sure, we cleaned up a few accidents along the way but that's to be espected...we've been comfortable leaving both of the boys out to have full run of the house and no accidents for several months. I had never crate trained a dog before so these were my first 2 and I actually like it. Yes, at first it does seem like they're in it all the time but as they grow you can work up to keeping them out for longer periods of time to cuddle and play. I'm glad mine are crate trained...it makes it easier when we travel or have to stay in a hotel. Good luck with your baby.

I crate trained and potty pad trained mine. I find that the crate training is the easiest though. :)

He will be three months old on Tuesday! I guess I'll just stick with the crate training. I just feel so bad that he spends all of his time in there. I've been taking him out first thing in the morning, and he'll usually poop and pee right away, then he is in the house playing for a little while (he usually does good and has no accidents during this time) then I feed him breakfast, after he eats he's back in his crate for about a half hour or so and then I take him outside to see if he goes. If he does, then he's out for a little while longer but if he drinks any, I put him back in his crate. If he doesn't go potty when I take him out, then he's back in his crate and I take him out every half hour or so until he does go potty. It's during that time that I feel he is in his crate so much. Because sometimes, he will go for a couple hours after he eats and drinks without having to go potty. I just feel so bad keeping him in the crate during that time, I mean, if he doesn't have to go when I take him out, then he doesn't have to go. I feel like I'm punishing him or something. (I have never used the crate for a punishment).
URRRR...I would just love to have him out all the time! Since he's in his crate so much right now, when he does get let out, he goes berserk because he's so full of energy from being in his crate, that we don't get to really love on him or snuggle him, he just wants to play!
Melanie

I was able to be home all the time to watch them. I live in NY so the weather does not allow to let them use the doggie door. They had to be trained on the wee wee pads. My girls were trained almost right away. I area trained and allowed them more run when they knew where to go. My maltese boy who was neutered never misses the weewee and squats like a girl. He is awesome. Now....... My 2 yorkie boys are another story. Everytime I see my girls go weewee, I'd make a BIG deal and give them treats. My girls picked up on that so well that they fake peed ALL the time. They will wait to get eye contact and then run to the pads and pee. My boys never picked this up till recently. My boys just started realizing they get a treat if they pee on the pad..... they are both between 2 and 3 years old!
We built a new house in 2002 and I knew having a stud in the house will probably ruin the floors..... and it did. Might have to redo them soon..... but I expected it so it does not bother me all that much.
I tried the belly bands and they just thought it was a game and ripped it off.

Belly bands are good for protecting your house from accidents but they don't do anything to housebreak your dog. You still have to do the work, I'm afraid.

I think you can solve most of the male marking problem if you neuter at an early age. My Bear was almost 100% pee pad trained until he hit around 6 months old.

Now he has been marking... so we have him wear a belly band as we have to wait till his health improves before we can have him neutered.

We trained using wee wee pads and an ex pen. It took very little effort and I never felt bad leaving her in her pen when I couldn't keep an eye on her. She had food, water, potty pad, bed and toys.

I would say keep doing what you're doing, but if you feel he's in his crate too much, get him a belly band so he can be out a bit more. It is nice to have one on hand in case you go to someone's home...you don't have to worry about an accident!

I have a male who is 1 years old. I used the puppy training pads and just watched him. As soon as I saw he had to go pee, I would pick him up and praise him for peeing on the pad. He eventually understood, and now he always goes on the pad. If you notice that he/she llikes to go in a certain place, put the pad there, and more than likely they will start going on the pad. As far as pooping on the pad, which did take longer than teaching him to pee on it, he just eventually realized he was supposed to when I would praise him when he would do it on accident. The most important thing to remember is to pick up the poop as soon as they poop on the pad. They don't like to poop on it more than once.

Good Luck!

I heard about marking but so far Oliver hasn't tried it- he's 6 months old. He's completely housetrained- and we use a litterbox. It didn't take him long to learn since I started teaching him the day he came home. We are switching to secondnature doglitter today so he's a little troublesome making the switch but he's doing just fine. I think i got lucky- he's jsut really easy to train. But I started with keeping him in a small area and when he was out with me he was NEVER out of my site. I kept him close by playing with his toys, petting him, walking around the house with him. Every ten/twenty minutes I would bring him back to his litterbox (so he learned where it was from different parts of the house) and waited. If he didn't go I would keep bringing him every couple of minutes until he went. It really was work though- constant for the first couple of weeks! After that he jsut needed sparse reminders and now he goes when he pleases- it's great. No worries!
I have neevr used bellybands because he doesn't seem to be into marking... but I have read that a lot of people on YT use them for their males. Good luck though- it just takes time and constant reminders! :) :)

If you feel he is in the crate too much, try an x pen or confining him to an uncarpetd area and use pee pads, along with taking him out. I have never tried crate training just simply because, I could not stand to hear them crying to get out and wanting to be with me.

Diapers and belly bands don't help train -- but they do help keep your pup from doing any damage in the house.

My little boy wears belly bands a lot and always had. But - I am taking him outside every hour and a half to two hours. And, with my doing this, he does 90% of his peeing outside - and almost never pees inside anymore.

The other morning, he ran out with his belly band on - lifted his leg - and pee'd on a bush. He doesn't even seem to know he's wearing it.

I can say -- from my experience - that his wearing a belly band has not kept him from becoming trained - nor has it made training any more difficult. All, it does is catch most of his pee when he pees in the house...which is becoming less and less often.

I am having much better success taking my pup outside. He has never been good about using his potty pad - and now, he has starting to tear it apart (it's a toy!).

So - we wear belly bands here - and my method of training is to take my pup outside often. (I am so glad summer is here - so much nicer going outside ---for me!)

Good luck! Carol Jean

Same here for Katy.

Hmmm...so it sounds like just about anything works with Yorkies as long as it's consistent? ;)

I just want to make it easy for him and he is so small and young that I don't want to do anything to mess him up and then mess up housebreaking him.

I've never had to housetrain a dog but my parents did when I was growing up and it never worked.
Thanks for all the helpful info. I think I'm going to possibly do puppy pads for a little while. He has already shown he "gets that" idea and that way, he'll have a place to go, in case he's not watched for a minute and I can also get a better idea of how long after he eats or drinks it takes for him to have to go potty. That way I can kind of get a schedule down.

Now, if I can just figure out how to potty train my 2 year old daughter.... :yelrotflm !!!

when i got Bo he had news papers in the play pen with him so i stopped and got some on the way home...and as soon as i got in the door with him i put them down and set him on them well he didnt use them right them he wanted to stiff the place out first lol...but the funny thing is he knew where to go back to he just walked over and peed on the paper the first time he used it after we got him.....i thought the pee pads would be better for him to pee on because it dont go through on the floor like it does with paper so the next day i bought so pads but still left the news paper down behind the pee pad and he poops on the paper and pees on the pads how funny is that lol...like one of the ladies said makesure to always pick up the poop right away i know Bo hated to use it a second time if there is still some there from before...and same with the pads i keep them changed often to because he will not use them if they are soiled to much....i also do the samething with the treats EVERYTIME he pees or poops he gets praised ALOT and gets a treat (i use sience diet treats because i want them to be good for him as many as he gets with all the peeing he does lol)....and that has worked for him he never misses the papers or pads and he is only 11 weeks now and was 8 weeks when i brought him home and in that first week he had a few mistakes but after that first week learning where he was and so on he never misses...i truly think praising and treats are the anwser to training...good luck with your little guy i know he can do it....btw i only use his crate at bed time...what i would do is after he ate or drank anything i would keep him on my lap until he would go on the pads and that was better for me than crateing him....it is just different for everyone you just have to find what is best for your little guy.

you sound like me. I am home most of the time alone since hubby has a long drive to work and back, so I started taking Kizzy outside as soon as I got her. She has yet to go in her carrier/crate ( where she sleeps). She now whines and if she has to go out till I ask her if she needs to go outside pee pee. then she barks. A few times already she had gone to the back door and then bark if she has to go bad. Luck with the Pee Peeing hasnt gone quiet that well but she is doing good. seems like she just couldnt hold it to get to the door by time I realized she has to go. But shes gotten better. She hasnt pooped in the house over 2 times in about 3 weeks. When I first got her and started taking her out , sometimes I would look for her if I didnt see her in her bed or on her rug in my kitchen and i would find her sitting at the back door. But so quiet, I had no way of knowing. But I got where i would find her there or take her there, sit her down and say , go outside, tee, tee. then tell her to speak. At first it was more of a squeak but now she will go to the door and actually bark. She is doing real well for 10 weeks, I think. I've had her since she was 6 weeks old. But you do have to be persistent. I give her a treat each time she goes out and tell her what a good girl she is, but if she goes in the floor, she gets scolded. She knows its bad because if she sees me coming she runs other way and watches me like a hawk. So she actually tells on herself. I look till i see it then I scold her and tell her that is a bad bad girl in a scolding tone. I can tell it hurts her feelings. Most times she runs and hops in her lil bed I keep in the kitchen and pouts. So in my book she is doing great for her age. But she doesnt like to go out in the rain if its raining much. So goodluck to all because it is hard and they do tend to forget since they really are babies. kinda like training your own baby to use a potty chair.

We trained ours to go outside. We didnt cratte trrain we just kept taking them outside and they got the idea that was where they neeed to go.

When we brought Diesel home he stayed in a "real" baby playpen. I kept his puppy pad in there with him. We brought him home at 9 weeks old and he was already using the pads. Since I am home with him all the time I took him out all the time. It didn't take long to get him housebroken. He isn't fixed and marks his territory OUTSIDE all the time. He has yet to do it in the house. I have to admit I have gotten very lucky with him.

Michelle

Chloe was potty pad trained when we got her at 12 weeks! But Daisy we had to start from scratch! Its a long and tiring process but just reward them and they will catch on quick!

Topher is 6 months old and we have had him since Feb. 16. We've been using pee pads since then and have been pretty successful. Topher has responded well to huge praise when he does the right thing. I don't make a huge fuss when he does wrong...I just say NO...BAD! and that's it. It's a huge party when he does pee or poo on the pee pad, though!! He gets his favorite treat, too.

He reminds me now when he pees on the pad and I don't see it. He comes to tell me that he deserves his treat NOW!! :)

We've had a few accidents in the house, but I think that's to be expected. He's restricted in where he goes, but the more I can trust him, the more areas I can let him in.

Now that the weather is nice, we're bringing him outside to do his business, and he's loving it! He's had no problems adjusting to going outside, which is a huge relief. I really thought we'd have problems, but he's not minding it at all.

I think the main keys are being consistent, restricting the pup to a small area of the home and praise, praise, praise. :)

I use a belly band on my boy. Even though it hasn't aided in the potty training process, it has given me peace of mind when im at home. I dont feel like i have to crawl behind him every second of the day. Plus I got so sick of cleaning the carpets!!!!! I just put a sanitary pad in it and change those out.

Here is the site that I ordered from. Next time I order from here I will probably get a size which is a few inches bigger then his belly since the pads make it a snug fit.

http://www.dog-breeds.net/dog_diaper_belly_band.htm