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Do you close up your yorkie before you leave the house?? Or do you let them roam free? |
Buddy has freedom. It took alot of work but the day finally came. He sleeps on the couch facing the front door waiting for me to come home! Sad I know but one of us has to work!:D |
One is 5 years old, and he does fine roaming the house. Now the other is still in potty training, and a climber! To keep her from climbing out of her pen, I have to crate her. I hate doing this, but its for her own good. I don't want to come home to a broken leg or anything like that. I may see soon though, if I can give her "roaming rites" in the kitchen again soon. Last time, wasn't too successful. She'd pee on the pee pads, but wouldn't poop anywhere near it. |
Everytime I leave them free they end up chewing on something. I feel bad to leave her closed up but I don't know what else to do.. |
baby gated inside our kitchen |
New Member [F][/FONT] Hello everyone, I am new to this site and the happy owner of Trixie, she is a 4 1/2 year old YT, she is what they call blue and tan.. we have had her all of her 4 1/2 years and after lots of research , we bread her at the end of August, really because she just has such a great and loving personality. I have been looking for info on her possible pregnancy and it led me to this site. Even though we have a lot of info, we are still new to this so I was checking to see if anyone could tell me if we really should be able to tell by now ... we think she has some symptoms but not sure ... please help! |
James stays in the bathroom, less stress for me!! He would have the whole house chewed up in one day:D |
:eek: Welcome to YT. I've never had a pregnant dog so I don't really know what to tell you...there are alot of threads about newborn pups you might find some answers there. You should start your own thread it'll be hard for people to find you here. |
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Unless you have an eye for it, it can be hard to tell until they are a little over a month along. |
If I am "leaving leaving" for a while, they all get put in their crates. I would just worry too much. Tiah is great and doesn't do anything wrong, but I'd never forgive myself if something happened to her while I was gone. If I am just outside mowing the lawn or something, they get gated in the living room and family room. |
yes, in the vinyl dining area. She'd tear up everything otherwise. |
My babies are gated off in the kitchen, dining room and hallway. I would give them complete free run but my little Tee Tee is a chewer and I'm afraid she'll chew the TV cords! :D |
I should get gates..sounds like a good idea. |
Kacee is totally housebroken and doesn't bother anything, so she has had the full run of the house for a long time now. She will be 18 months old October 9th. She's a good girl.:D |
Katy has free roam of the house except for the bedrooms. She has a doggie door and can go out when she wants too. (note: we have an 8ft privacy fence with chicken fence buried 3 inches under the ground.) |
I have a fence but theres nothing undergroud..doesn't make a difference cause I have yet to see one one of them dig theyre way out even if they do they'll just end up in the neighbors yard. but the chicken fence idea is smart! |
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Me too |
Pepper has a full reign of the kitchen. For now... There are too many cables and cords in the other 3 rooms and he's a chewer. Once he's out of that puppy stage I don't mind him running around freely. Oh, and the bathroom door needs to be closed as well, he somehow flips over the bathroom rugs and bites on the rubber side... |
My little fur ball gets baby gated in the laundry room. He's not totally potty trained and he likes to chew on power cords, so it's better that way. |
My pups don't chew wires luckily but they chew almost everything that fits in they're mouth! |
lexi has free run of the house... |
I got TJ at 4 months old and Roxy at 6 months old. From day one they both were baby gated in a spare room up stairs. I had to make a cardboard wrapped in fabric border around the whole room, b/c the were eatting the walls, corners, the door, you name it, they chewed it, including poop! :eek: Slowly they were allowed more freedom when I was home, but they were always put in there room when home alone. Then they both turned 1 year old and I would leave them downstairs alone a few times if I knew I would be gone only for a short period of time! Guess what? They were sooooooooo good. They just slept on the top of the couch or looking out the window! Now they are almost 2 years old and they have to same routine when I am gone: Resting on top of the couch, sleeping or looking out the window! P.S. I block the stair case off b/c TJ can climb up, but he won't come down, so I can't have him stuck up there ;) |
lol My pup used to go upstairs and not come down too but now that pup is older so she has no problems. |
Well, my baby, Hootie, she is 5 months old but I don't trust her to roam the house bc I am not convinced she is 100% potty trained yet. And, she cannot jump on/off the couch yet, so I don't want her to get hurt while I'm gone trying to do things like that. My oldest, Hobbs, he's 1 year and fully potty trained and I fully trust him so he gets to stay out and "roam free." I do keep the bedroom and bathroom doors shut, so he really only has access to the kitchen, living area, and foyer. I will let Hootie stay out, too, when I am convinced that she is 100% potty trained and when she can jump on/off the couch and when I can trust her not to get into any trouble! :p |
Where on Long Island are you? |
When we are gone Sometimes we leave him out, other times we put him in his x pen. If we are going to be gone for an hour or more, we put him in his x pen. If we are just running to get food, going to the bank, running to the gas station, or drug store, etc....we will leave him out and he gets the house all to himself :) I don't like leaving him out for too long by himself though because he is a jumper, he jumps up on EVERYTHING and I am so afraid that he may jump and fall and break his neck and I not be there :( That is my worst fear. So...mainly, for safety reasons, I put him in his x pen if we are going to be gone for a long period of time ;) |
Dezi gets to use the Kitchen area (has a small family room area) and her bedrrom upstairs. Living room (she will chew on the wires) and bedrooms are off limit when I am not hope. She spends most of the day in the family room area, we have a bay window and I put pillows for her and lays there all day. |
In the morning I put Howie in his crate to go back to sleep. When I come home to feed him at lunch I put him in his xpen for the rest of the day so he can romp around a little. If I'm running out to the store for just a few minutes I'll let him stay gated in the living room. Any longer than that and I don't know what he'd get into! |
I just started 2 weeks ago giving Cali free run of the house. I started with 1/2 hour periods and now I have left her 5 hours one day and she was fine. SHe is 15 months old |
If I leave the chairs out near the table they climb up and eat my lunch:eek: if I leave them in the bathroom they go through the trash..if I leave them in the bedroom they sleep on my clothes.. If I leave them in the living room they chew on the sofa pillows. so they're just stuck in the hallway for now till I find something better...where do you get an x-pen? pet shop? |
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