Still having Potty Issues

[LillieDoodle]

Ok - So I posted about a month ago regarding my little girl Gracie. She is almost 6 months old and the potty training is still an issue. Here is how it goes.

1. In the morning she will bark to wake us up due she does not want to potty in her playpen. We always take her right out and she knows exactly what to do. During the day she is in her playpen while we are at work and will not use the potty in her pen. When we get home, she goes right out and goes potty. We always reward her for going potty outside and telling her what a good girl she is.

So after all of that pottying outside, we will come inside and she cannot be trusted outside of her pen. If she feels like peeing, she will just squat down and do it wherever. I have told her numerous times that she is a bad girl for pottying in the house. She knows when she is bad too, but she will not stop peeing in the house. I have to be on top of her at all times and take her out once an hour to go pee.

I just do not know what to do about her behavior inside the house. I have another Yorkie that is a year old and she has been house trained since she was four months old and never has an accident in the house.

Any ideas?

[Yorkiekids]

I would try either still keeping her in the pen, or blocking a room off for her. Maybe she needs a little space, but not run of the house. Hope she's straighten it out.

[Tammyh]

I would crate train her. It's worked with every dog we've ever had. But you have to be consistent, it's a lot of work but so worth it. She's in the crate for about an hour, let her out to go potty. If she goes outside she gets lots and lots of praise and gets to stay out and play (but only for about 1/2 hour) and back in the crate for another hour or so and repeat the process. If she doesn't "go" when you take her out of the crate she goes right back in and try again every 15 minutes until she "goes". It's a lot of work and very hard to do because you won't want to put her back in the crate after the hour is up but it will pay off big time and as she does better you can leave her out longer and longer until you know that you don't have to put her in at all any more. When she's out of the crate you HAVE to watch her like a hawk, don't let her go anywhere that you can't see her because if she has an accident you want to catch her in the act so you can correct her. If you catch her in the act inside the house tell her "no", pick her up and take her outside, if she finishes up outside lots of praise. If she doesn't finish up outside she goes in her crate. Also, when you let her out of her crate have her follow you to the door so that she knows where to go when she has to go potty. If you carry her it'll take her longer to figure it out. I hope this helps, good luck!