Comments on: Housebreaking a Yorkshire Terrier? Tips for How To Housetrain a Yorkie

By: lisa

lisa — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:40:38 +0000

i have 2 little yorkies. scooter is 4 lbs and 5yrs old. he was pretty easy to potty train at an early age, but when we had several people over for dinner he would get excited and would pee od poop on your lap.he may have been about a year old at that time. when we had him around female dogs he would come home and start marking places in the house. we watched him close and just took him out more. nipped that in the bud quick. now sniper is a wholw different story. he seems to be a different breed. got him at about 12 weeks old. he was wild and hard to handle. it took a lot of work to calm him down, but is doing much much better. i seemed to have gotten him potty trained in a very short time, or so i thought. i caught him peeing on the bedroom carpet, so now im wondering if he had me fooled all this time, or did he just start doing it? most of my rooms have light oatmeal berber carpet and i have looked everywhere.i have found no sign of pee, but just in our bedroom. they both sleep with my husband and i. he is doing this after we go to bed and he does get taken out before bed. please dont give up on your yorkies. they really are the best. my breeder told me not to give them the run of the house or they would go in places you dont know about. this is very true. she has given me a lot of good advice. she has raised a lot of them. i will call her before the vet. im going back to when sniper was 12 weeks. i took him out every 20-30 min.i think we will get back on track. just keep at it and be consistant and dont get discouraged. you will get them trained.

By: mwoods

mwoods — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:11:06 +0000

Thanks for the tips we have a little yorkie who is somewhat potty trained. We do not want ours to pee or poop on pads so when it rains what do you do?

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:28:42 +0000

I wish I found this forum earlier. Our yorkie is 3 years old. We took her in from another family when she was just under 1 & she was not trained. We had her trained ok for a while..as some people here have mentioned, she would go now & then but she would mostly go outside once we properly crate trained her. A few months ago we moved into a townhome. She started pooping in the house a lot, after taking her out back & walking her with no results, she would still go hide & poop after we got inside. Now, the pooping inside has stopped, & starting last week she is peeing in the house all of the time. I started putting her in the crate during the day again, and she doesn’t go in the crate (she’ll be in there for about 8 hours). She will go outside right after work like a good girl, and bam an hour or two later she’s peeing on the floor. Today she was in the crate for 2 hours & I came hom early. She peed outside and 2 hours later she pees on the couch. I’m going to have to throw out my area rugs because I’m pretty sure they are ruined. I have NEVER been able to get her to go on a puppy pad…I would feel like I hit the lottery if she did go on puppy pads! I just don’t understand how she will not go when she is in the crate for hours at a time but when she’s not in the crate she goes all over….and why did this just start up a week ago?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:53:21 +0000

Correction…she goes pee about 5-10x’s a day(that i know of). I really dont think she has any sort of bladder issue. She has never peed on anyone or in any weird(not normal) area. Im guessing her bladder is the size of a grape!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:48:04 +0000

Here is my problem and I need help PLEASE. I am a pround owner of the sweetest, extremely intelligent 2 1/2 year old 4lb yorkie. I have trained her to do all kinds of tricks, shes very very smart, and has the traits that AKC considers a standard yorkie to have. I have moved 4 times in the past year. Ya, crazy i know. She gets confused. She never pee’s on hard wood floors, only carpet. She started off going on ONLY potty pads minus when she went on walks at times because we lived in a high rise. Since then she has gone from all kinds of different scenarios. Now I am living in an all carpet apartment. At the moment I do have time to take her out every couple hours. BUT it wont last for much longer. I take her out now 1-3 times a day, as well as have two potty pads in the house. There is just no way she could go w/out potty pads for her entire life. Tell me if im wrong? But shes a tiny 4lb’r and goes 10-15x’s a day. Ive thought of everything but no matter how many times I catch her, then either take her outside, or to her pad…she keeps on peeing and pooping allll over my apartment. I am buying an air can to try that technique. She has gotten better at past places, but never fully trained. She also is smart and waits to do it when im not looking! she is a SNEAK!! Crate training WILL NOT WORK. My xgf and I gave it our all for 4 whole months when we first got her. Got her the proper size crate and tried for 4 solid months. She not only cried EVERY SINGLE night, but also pooped and pee’d in her crate consistently!! We gave up and let her sleep with us. Moral of story. I need help w/my smart, sneaking ..love of my life. (thining about the air can as mentioned and any sort of carpet deterents maybe?) THANKS!

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:05:31 +0000

My Yorkie is trained to go on the wee wee pads by our door but I don’t know how to get him to pee and poop outside and to scrach when he need to go outside.What should I so

By: Linny

Linny — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:21:49 +0000

@ Jahir: Definitely get a smaller cage.. just room for a place to lay down and another place to go pee. There will be no accidents that way. It worked perfet for my yorkie and now he goes in his litter box all the time. I also noticed that it works to only give them treats when they go to the bathroom and not for anything else.. This way, they will be SUPER excited for the treat. Try to always catch the dog in the act when it gets in trouble.. If he gets in trouble afterwards, he’ll think that the actual pop/pee is bad and not the fact the he releived himself there. I think it’s good to be a little more agressive then just a simple ‘no’. How many times do people actually say ‘no’ to there puppy in a day? If it’s not too harsh, the dog won’t get that it is really BAD to go in the house.

By: Lillie

Lillie — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:10:47 +0000

@ Tony, I understand why you had to keep your dogs in the crate, my sister recently got a yorkie so she pays me to puppysit but then again she only works certain days of the week. i know its hard but dont give up hope!

By: Jahir

Jahir — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:24:19 +0000

Guys! Thank you all for the great answers above. Advice is what I need since we recently purchased a Yorkshire Terrier for the first time.
I want to know everything, I should purchase a book, but the best is learning little by little from advice. Our Yorkie is 2 months old. He is cute, stubborn and sweet. Since we got him, he has a designated space in the kitchen. Enough to walk and run around. We have taught him to pee n the WEE PADS, and he has been doing it since the first week. We had a cage from our old juggle, the cage is pretty big. I read above that big cages are not good…Am I doing wrong by putting a big cage for him to sleep? Should I have a smaller cage? Also my puppy is 2 months old, when can I start giving small treats? Now? I am just confused on how treating a 2 month old puppy and not a 2 yr old puppy. Thank you all for the advice, and hopefully I can get some good recommendations.

By: Linny

Linny — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:27:56 +0000

I think it’s definitely ok to give your dog a littls swat when it eliminates in the wrong spot. Sometime’s, a simple “no” doesn’t work. A mom dog will actually snap and bite at her pups to teach them lessons – and it works. Whatever you do, don’t keep saying ‘no’ to the dog when it runs outside or into it’s ‘box’ to go pee. Always change your attitude and say “good boy/girl” as soon as it runs to the right spot.