Question:
hey I've only had my new yorkie for a week and I've been trying to crate train him using papers outside the crate. I am a student and have a very light schedule this semester so I am home most of the time and any time i needed to be away longer my mom watched him. However even if i feel him every three or four hours I can't see to get a regular schedule for pooping, so I've been waking up in the middle of the night after 2.5-3 hours to take him out only to find he's pooped in the crate or I take him out and he won't do anything. With pee he is doing really well, he'll even run over to the papers if he's playing sometimes. I know he's super young so I don't expect perfection but I don't get how to get him to poop earlier and not in the crate.
My other question is will crate training even work now that he's going poop in the crate on and off for a week. I am assuming he doesnt have the instinct to not soil his den that crate training is based on. Should I try paper training instead? He is not fully vaccinated yet so I can't take him outside.
I love this little guy but I am so sleep deprived and frustrated I am starting to yell at him and I don't want to be like that. Its amazing what a week of no sleep can do.
HELP!!
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If you have only had him a week, I wouldn't expect too much from him just yet. How old is he? Every month of age is equal to one hour of how long a puppy can hold it. How big is his crate? It should only be big enough for him to stand up and turn around in.
I would recommend against the paper training. He needs to be taught to go potty outside, paper inside is usually just going to confuse the dog into thinking it is okay to go inside. If you are feeding him twice a day and he is pooping in his crate at night, what time are you feeding him at night? You may want to feed on an earlier schedule. At night before bed and in the morning when you take him outside to potty you need to wait him out. Stay outside until he goes, even if it takes an hour, once he goes offer lots of praise. Walking or exercise can also help to stimulate him to go potty also.
Hope this helps! Let us know how it goes.
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I do want to train him to go outside but I want to take him to the vet for the rest of his vaccines first. I live in the city and there are a lot of dogs around here so I don't want him to get sick. He is very little. I would rather train him outside but figured I'd use papers first and then move to outside when hes a bit older.
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If you are going to have him go in the house, then get a litter box & use the pee pads in it. At least then you won't be teaching him to go on the floor.
Crate training is not recommended until they are 4 - 5 mos old & yorkies are notorously hard to break. You really can't expect any sort of results for a couple months. You shouldn't be saying anything to him when he has accidents let alone yelling at him.
You also need to make sure he is not going to long between meals as they can get hypoglycemic & go into seizures if they do.
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The breeder told me he would remember the smell of newspaper and that part seems to work. But i will try putting the paper in a litter box. thanks.
I know about the hypoglycemia and I always make sure he has his nutrical before bed and he's allowed dry food whenever he wants as per the breeder recommendation. This of course makes potty training even harder b/c i don't want to take the dry food away two hrs before bed.
I do not usually yell at him when he has accidents. I just say "NO" and move him to the papers. But after absolutely zero sleep the other night I got a little bit frustrated and my NOs were a bit less calm . That is why I want to know if getting no sleep is pointless or if it will eventually work. I don't know how long i can function without sleeping and I just want to make sure I'm not doing it for nothing b/c he doesn't care about pooping in his crate. If I shouldnt be crate training now, where should he be sleeping, what should i be doing?? non judgemental advice would be greatly appreciated.
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he can sleep in his crate. I assume this is a 10 - 12 week old puppy since you just got him. Puppies this age have to go out about every half hour when they are awake & only have the physical ability to hold it for about 2 hrs when sleeping.
It isn't that he doesn't have the instinct to not soil his den, it is that he has no choice.
Anyone getting a puppy should know they aren't going to get much sleep for several months. They also should not get a puppy unless there is someone home all day to take it outside.
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lIts really unbelievable that I cannot find one website on which to ask questions and not get back judgemental answers. I am willing to not get sleep as long as its actually going to work down the road. I was simply trying to find out if there was something else I should be doing or if I was doing something wrong. But if it works then fine, i'll lose all the sleep in the world. I am a grad student with an extremely light schedule this semester and am gone for an hour at most per day and some days i am home all day. I have not gone to outings with friends to take care of my puppy, so don't give me your self-righteous bs about how im not willing to do what's best for my puppy, that you're concluding based on one question i asked when I was upset.
This is the only time in my life where I will have this much free time. When I graduate I will have a job and not be home. I am sorry, I am not so perfect as to never ever leave my house right now, but I don't think you have the right to tell me I was wrong in getting a puppy.
oh and as for being home to take him outside goes, I have already mentioned that even if I am home, he CANNOT go outside yet b/c he is NOT FULLY VACCINATED. At his first vet appt the vet even said if you take him outside don't let him walk on the ground yet b/c his immune system has not fully kicked in. In the area I live in there are a lot of people who I do not trust to take their dogs to the vet (my campus is in a not so great area of nyc) I do not want to risk letting him walk outside around here when a puppy recently died of parvo after being in one of the parks.
Therefore, I will only take him outside and let him walk and do his business there when his immune system is strong enough. Oh, and before you also wrongfully conclude that I keep him indoors and don't exercise him at all, don't worry he gets plenty of exercise fetching his toys for me all afternoon and evening. Thanks.
read before you judge people. jeez.
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What is unbveleivable is that so many ignorant yahoos think that valuable advice (see it from our point of view, we give the same stuupid, painfully obvious advice 500 times a week, or more, and 9/10 of those people get ticked off at us for trying to help) is judgemental.
Think before you ask people. jeez.