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06-02-2005, 07:52 AM | #1 |
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| When Does it Stop? Charlie is around 5 months now. He, 85% of the time does his business on the puppy pads, and sometimes we catch him in two other spots. He is gated in the kitchen all day when we're gone, and crated at night in our room. He can roam freely when we're home and awake. When does it stop? How do you know when a good time is to let them have "free roam" of the house when we're not there, or to let him enter and exit his crate as he likes at night time?
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06-02-2005, 08:10 AM | #2 |
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| Teddy have not had an accident since he was 12 weeks old but I wouldn't let him roam free until he was 1 or 1-1/2 years old. Honestly, I would keep him confined a little bit longer. He is only 5 months old and seem to do really well. But he is young. If you change the routine he might regress. But that's my opinion. It's really is up to you to decide. |
06-02-2005, 09:11 AM | #3 |
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| willy & crate training We kept Willy crated overnite & during the day in the begining. After about 6 mo we started letting him out overnite, but kept him crated during the day, I would stop at home over lunch & give him a break & my husband would let him out when he got home from work around 4pm. The reason we started leaving him out was he has too much penned up energy & he needed the activity. After about 6 more months we got rid of the crate completely. He hated the crate & was very glad to see it go. He was a very easy puppy to train, we had very few accidents. Desiree |
06-02-2005, 10:29 AM | #4 |
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| I was curious how long, appx., it should take to potty train a puppy. Mine is 4.5 months old.. i just got him 4 days ago.. and started potty training,( the right way), two days ago.. i was super confused when i first got him... i dont want to keep cleaning up his business forever all over my apt |
06-02-2005, 10:50 AM | #5 |
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| Let's see...Biddy's birthday is 11/23/03...so I'm working on 1 year 6 months 10 days 14 hours and 41 minutes!! And she's still not potty trained!!!! URGH!
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06-02-2005, 10:56 AM | #6 | |
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06-02-2005, 11:03 AM | #7 |
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| Snoodles was trained at 9 months! It ws a hassle, I can tell you! I would take her out, wait, bring her back in and she would do her business right in front of me! Brat! Finally, I was exhausted, picked her up and put her face to my face growled like a dog and threw her out. She hasn't messed in the house since. Pat |
06-02-2005, 11:08 AM | #8 |
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| When to give free rein I had a real chuckle with this posting because when I nagged my hubby to get a yorkie, I wasn't about to ask him to help me with training, so I was up 24/7 for weeks. I was so tired, I was sure I had made a big mistake. Fortunately I am retired so I could devote a lot of time to training but it still was 7-9 months before Chloe was able to get the "housebroken" title and I could leave her alone, in the den for a few hours. At first I would go to Sunday School and come home before church to let her out. Then, how dumb, I wanted another one, so I could start all over. Lacey is so small, her bladder is very tiny, so that brought another set of issues. Then, it got better. I still try to make time away pretty short, about 3 hours, only because of the girls getting into mischief, like chewy electric cords, tearing up my carpet, etc. But Lacey pretty much followed Chloe out, so she was easier to potty train. I still make use of their kennels when it is night night time. |
06-02-2005, 11:48 AM | #9 |
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| jwash! I am retired also. I never was so tired in all of my life! I have two birds and then this Yorkie to let out every hour or so and clean up etc, etc. I thought I had made a mistake too. Out in the middle of the night in my night gown yelling, "Go Potty". Gosh, it was awful! But, of course, like everyone who has one, we fall head over heels in love with them, and then all is forgiven! Ha! of course, she was finally trained, thank God! Pat |
06-02-2005, 12:17 PM | #10 |
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| mybirdys2003 What type of birds do you have?? I have a male that little over a year and still not potty trained.. |
06-02-2005, 12:56 PM | #11 |
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| noooooooooooooo noooooo, dont tell me over a yr old and still not potty trained.. i hope he gets trained sooooooooooooon. im so paranoid, i feel like everything smells like peeeee. |
06-02-2005, 01:59 PM | #12 |
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| I brought Sami home at 7 weeks, Sami is now 5 1/2 months now and the majority of the time he poo's & pee's on his pad, he also will poo in a corner of our bedroom and on the mat in front of the shower I am retired and a stay at home yorkie mom, and I take both my babies out every half to an hour with me I am a smoker and I only smoke outside.. So he should have gotten it by now!! I keep the kitchen & livingroom gated off from the rest of the house so he only has access to the hallway, laundry room, bath, and our bedroom, our other bedroom door is always closed. when I do remove the gate Sami will poop on the kitchen floor while I am at the stove cooking!! and when I plop his little nose down to it and tell him no bad boy, he just doesn't get it!! He really doesn't, So I think everyone's pup will have their own unique learning skills no matter how hard you train them, I also think using the pee pads has caused confusion with Sami because he actually is trained to always poo's in the house no matter if he just came from out side! I feel I have been encouraging him that the pee pad is where he will poop! outside he will pee, but I cannot get him to poo outside I have even brought his pad outside and he just looks at it picks it up runs inside the doggy door(trys to) pull it through, I guess to put it back?? so I am hopeing he will just grow out of it because stressing over it isn't worth it! So I would keep your gate up because I dont think there is a period of time when you can give them full access of your home until you can say 100% |
06-02-2005, 02:03 PM | #13 |
Mommy's Little Angel Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Northern New Jersey
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| My vet said that Mocha should have been trained by now.. She's 5 months!! I think it depends on the dog and how much the owners do at really training and sticking to a schedule
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06-02-2005, 02:30 PM | #14 | |
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