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03-02-2011, 09:17 AM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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| Indoor or Outdoor potty trained I'm curious, is your yorkie indoor trained or outdoor trained or both? Why did you pick your method? I'll start. Indoor, but can go out, I use a grid system, because when we got Harley we lived on the 21st floor, that and I live in Canada, it's too cold to take the dog outside. I wouldn't change anything about it. Even if I had multiple dogs, I love my indoor potty.
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03-02-2011, 09:22 AM | #2 |
Dreamin' of Dexter Donating YT Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: toronto, Canada
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| Dexter is both indoor and outdoor trained. best of both worlds! he will ask to go outside if we are both downstairs, but goes on a pee pad upstairs or if we aren't home. i like having him pee pad trained because then I don't have to worry about him going before we leave to go out and don't have to worry about rushing home to let him out. |
03-02-2011, 09:37 AM | #3 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Washington
Posts: 61
| Charlie is 5 months and outdoor trained. We hang bells from the door and have taught him to ring the bells to go out and potty. He does a great job! I chose outdoor because our other dog Annie goes outside and I just never wanted to have the potty in the house. |
03-02-2011, 09:54 AM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Michigan
Posts: 747
| Sasha is outdoor trained. When I first got her, it was in December when I got to take her home and it was too cold for me to be taking her outside to potty. The breeder was training her puppies to potty on newspaper so I used that technique for awhile. I then resorted to pee pads once she began tearing up the newspaper. That worked for awhile but like with the newspaper, she began tearing those up to. By this time, it was starting to warm up outside so I began outside training. It took a long time, pretty much a year to be honest before she was completely house trained. She would go to the door but wouldn't bark or let anyone know that she was there so she'd always have an accident right in front of the door. That's when I read about the bell training method. I gave it a shot and she got it down packed in only a few days. I was completely shocked at how quickly she caught on. |
03-02-2011, 10:00 AM | #5 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Port St. Lucie, Florida
Posts: 1,043
| Bella & Harley are outdoors trained. My reason is...I don't want dirty potty pads in my home, they smell and they are nasty IMO...Now if I lived where it snowed and just to cold to go out I probably would consider them but, I live in South Florida, there is no snow and it hardly ever gets below 30 here in the winter so I see no need for them...My babies come to work with me so they are hardly ever home alone for more than 4 hours at a time. Harley is confined in his play yard for his safety and with a potty pad just incase of a accident, he's only 5 1/2 mos old, if I know I will be gone longer like 8 hours or more..my BFF has a Yorkie too and she fursits for us.
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03-02-2011, 10:15 AM | #6 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Indoor and Outdoor We live in a woodsy, very dark area and I didn't want to take my boys out late at night. I also didn't want my senior citizen father to have to deal with putting on harnesses and getting the dogs out the door every couple of hours. My boys tell me when they have poop because they want that taken care of right away, so it is essentially the same as going outside. Our system works well for us. My boys can hold it when necessary and they know when and where to potty. They don't have problems when we go to other people's homes or public places.
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03-03-2011, 12:01 PM | #7 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Charlotte, NC
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| Outdoor. Didn't want to deal with potty inside the house. I tried with the pad initially because that's what the breeder was doing. But it wasn't working Kody was tearing and chewing them up. I didn't know at the time that they had trays made for the pads. So when he had his first vet visit which was the very next day - I asked about outside training. I was told it was fine to do so, in the long run it would save me the headache of trying to switch. So that's what we have been doing around the clocke literally. Kody doesn't give us a sign as to when he has to go Potty. So I know to take him once he wakes up, after napping, after meals and before bed - and all times in between. He goes out to pee about every 1.5 hr now. He knows the command Potty and will always pee no matter what. We still have accidents in the house and if caught in the act he is scolded with the word "no" and then put in this crate if it's poo - if it's pee - I will immediately take him outside. I just purchased the bells after learning about them. I've had them hung for a week now, and although I believe he knows what they stand for he has yet to use them consistently. He using them every now and then. I reinforce this method each time I take him out hoping he will get the message soon.
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03-04-2011, 08:45 AM | #8 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: WA state
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| Outdoor...crate and bell trained. Dori has a dog walker for times when we have to leave her home alone longer than 4-5 hours.
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03-04-2011, 10:51 AM | #9 |
YT Addict Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Royse City tx
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| Outdoor. Although the last few days she has had some accidents in the house. My fault clearly though as she did her business by the back door.
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03-04-2011, 11:26 AM | #10 |
I ♥ Armani & Chloe Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Upstate NY
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| Indoor trained, it Is necessary for us and works for us. I think everyone should do what works for them and not feel the need to make nasty comments about what other people do.
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03-04-2011, 12:15 PM | #11 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
Posts: 4,119
| Indoor pee pad trained. My work hours are unpredicatable & irregular, so it allows my pup to go potty when she needs to. Any yorkie I've ever had has been pad trained. I love it because is makes it so much easier to travel. I can put a pee pad down, on the floor of my car, the floor of a friends bathroom, my kids dorm room & she knows to go on it. I'm on the go alot & my pup goes everywhere with me, other than work and I love the convenience of the portable pads. To the person above who stated that pee pads are dirty & nasty & smelly....I don't whose homes you frequent....but I change my pads frequently & poop is immediately picked up & flushed, morning & night. I use both the washable pads for home & disposable pads for travel (& when I'm slacking on my laundry duties )
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03-04-2011, 12:54 PM | #12 | |
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03-04-2011, 03:43 PM | #14 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Mississippi
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| Inside - totally. Since we work, this works best for us. Plus, we don't have a fenced yard. I had another dog before that was outside trained, but I have learned this go round that this is definitely best for me and Sophie.
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03-04-2011, 04:10 PM | #15 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | Jillie is the only one trained for both. She prefers outside, but uses the pad exclusively if she doesn't have a choice. Eddie goes outside and can hold it forever. I did that for the times they get sick and can't hold it all day long, or the times we travel. It's nice to be able to pull out a pad at the airport and take care of business without having to exit security and find a lawn somewhere.
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