DiNozzo
Well-Known Member
Hello.
My parents have an 8 month old Yorkshire terrier that they are having problems toilet training. From being a puppy he has been put outside to wee and poo. As he's gotten older, the supervision isn't as close. He is not crate trained, and they won't crate train him. He has been castrated. Probably has been cleaner since then, but very little in it.
He is walked 3 (fairly short) times a day - early morning, mid afternoon and late at night before bed. He is usually, but not always, clean overnight.
He poos consistently outside now.
He will go outside to wee if the back door is open. He wees on walks. Whenever they see him wee outside, he is praised.
He understands he should not wee inside. He slinks around and looks miserable when he has wee'd inside.
He doesn't bark to be out. When he wee's, it is nearly always just next to the back door, on the corner of a cupboard unit. It's as though he knows he should go out, but doesn't know how to get us to open the door.
At night time, when we're in the living room, he sometimes barks to be out (his food and water are in the kitchen) if the door is shut. We praise him for this. We have tried always taking him out whenever he barks. This doesn't seem to have any effect, and he has only very occasionally barked, then had a wee outside (he has been praised profusely for this). Mostly, he looks cross because he wanted out for food.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to teach him to bark on command and then get him to bark every time we put him at the back door, then open it and praise for weeing outside. However, he isn't the most talkative of dogs to put the command to, and in fact will only really bark when in a high state of arousal (which isn't conducive to training a command!).
Any help, very much appreciated!
My parents have an 8 month old Yorkshire terrier that they are having problems toilet training. From being a puppy he has been put outside to wee and poo. As he's gotten older, the supervision isn't as close. He is not crate trained, and they won't crate train him. He has been castrated. Probably has been cleaner since then, but very little in it.
He is walked 3 (fairly short) times a day - early morning, mid afternoon and late at night before bed. He is usually, but not always, clean overnight.
He poos consistently outside now.
He will go outside to wee if the back door is open. He wees on walks. Whenever they see him wee outside, he is praised.
He understands he should not wee inside. He slinks around and looks miserable when he has wee'd inside.
He doesn't bark to be out. When he wee's, it is nearly always just next to the back door, on the corner of a cupboard unit. It's as though he knows he should go out, but doesn't know how to get us to open the door.
At night time, when we're in the living room, he sometimes barks to be out (his food and water are in the kitchen) if the door is shut. We praise him for this. We have tried always taking him out whenever he barks. This doesn't seem to have any effect, and he has only very occasionally barked, then had a wee outside (he has been praised profusely for this). Mostly, he looks cross because he wanted out for food.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd like to teach him to bark on command and then get him to bark every time we put him at the back door, then open it and praise for weeing outside. However, he isn't the most talkative of dogs to put the command to, and in fact will only really bark when in a high state of arousal (which isn't conducive to training a command!).
Any help, very much appreciated!
