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04-05-2007, 12:58 PM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southern Kentucky, USA
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| Housebreaking question [F]I read somewhere that Yorkies are hard to housebreak. I'm asking for opinions on that. I have a 7 year old Yorkie that I adopted and she was housebroken when I got her. I'm considering getting a puppy and am curious if they are hard to h.break. I've had dogs of all kinds most of my life and I find that any dog is hard to break. I have a Westie that is 3 and she's been fairly easy to break. Yorkies, in my opinion, are extremely intelligent so I don't understand why they would be hard to train. What's been your findings?[/FONT]
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04-05-2007, 01:07 PM | #2 |
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| I think if you can stay home with them then they are quite easy to housebreak and can easily be completely housebroken by the age of 6 months. It just depends on the individual circumstances and how they are being housebroken - pads, taken out on leash, access to a fenced yard, door bells, doggie door. There are so many variables.
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04-05-2007, 01:20 PM | #3 |
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| i didn't know that they were supposedly hard to housebreak thank goodness. romeo is doing really well - he has an accident here and there but he is only 10 weeks old. he knows where he is supposed to go and when he finishes eating he makes tracks to the front door to be let out. when it is raining you have to keep taking him back and forth to one of his pads because he wants to use it but can't because of the weather. he finally gets it and does his thing. and i am a SAHM so that makes a big difference,too.
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04-05-2007, 02:00 PM | #4 |
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| I've had Yorkies on/off most of my life. I've also had Great Danes. I currently share my life with a large Yorkie boy, a new Biewer 5mo old pup, and an 11yr old Golden. My Golden was a breeze to house train, my Yorkie started out litterbox trained and did fantastic until he decided he was done with that (literally) and from that point on has always gone outside. He's had maybe 2 accidents in the past 2yrs and that was my fault. My biewer is housetrained now to the extent that I take him out. He is crated when I am at work but when I am home he has run of the house with my eye on him yet. I wouldn't trust my Bentley(biewer) to have run of the house quite yet, but we are very close. I also have a tiled kitchen and hardwood floors which helps incase. I think training a Yorkie is hard because they are tiny (this is not unusual for small dogs) but it can be done with persistence, patience, and a schedule. If you ever look at petfinder most of the little rescue Yorkies are not housetrained and I think thats why many of them end up in rescue as owners get frustrated and give up. You can do it. Check out the threads under "training" theres alot there as well about housetraining methods etc. Kathy |
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