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Martytoof posted:I stopped going to shelters because I want to walk out with every dog. I felt this way, and while I can't adopt every dog my thought was I can make a difference for one. I ended up adopting a newborn puppy Dobe/Mastiff mix. Worth the wait and the failed leads etc. It's hard - but you're doing the right thing by rescuing.
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For pet insurance you're probably way better off just putting away money each month into a savings account (and have a decent chunk saved up already before getting the dog). That way there's no hassle or worrying whether whatever happened to your pup will be covered or not. You could also look into CareCredit.
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Genewiz posted:I keep reading posts in PI where the OP is "my dog/cat is doing [something weird]" and when they go to the vet, they have a bill in the thousands and other posters say, "that's why I have pet insurance." My friends who own dogs all have pet insurance. Granted, they didn't get it until Fido was listless or having bloody poop and they got a sticker shock. There seems to be a lot of conflicting advice on this topic though. What it comes down to is what the person has experienced in the past. If they have paid for the insurance and never used it? Yeah its a waste of money. I used to be whatever about it, but after Monty had his super expensive back problem including surgery, epilepsy, many medical tests etc, I am all for insurance. For a while I believe we were paying something like $60 for 1 month of his epilepsy medication. When I wanted to get a dog in college (I know I know, but I actually did it RIGHT), my dad made it a requirement that I get pet insurance. Thankfully haven't had to use it yet, but I am happy to have it. (I have a PetPlan bronze plan) Edit: also depends on what insurance cause some are sketch. ALSO if you have a purebred dog vs mutty mutt. They tend to favor mutts.
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Skizzles posted:For pet insurance you're probably way better off just putting away money each month into a savings account (and have a decent chunk saved up already before getting the dog). That way there's no hassle or worrying whether whatever happened to your pup will be covered or not. You could also look into CareCredit. How much is a good amount to put away each month? The reason I'm being quite serious about getting insurance is that I live in San Francisco. Yes, I have a backyard and I will be doing my damnest to care and protect my dog. But being in such a densely populated area, we'll be bound to encounter a variety of people, pets and vehicles such as an aggressive dog with a crazy my-pooch-is-only-trying-to-play owner at the dog park or a bicyclist who wants to bike on the sidewalk at breakneck speed. I have been clipped by a bike before and he didn't even stop. So, just trying to be prepared for the worse. 
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It depends, I guess. As much as you can would obviously be best. Also depends on other things like what breed of dog you have, where it came from, etc. If you have an English bulldog? Oh yeah, get all the insurance you can. Did you get a dog from a breeder that skimps on the health testing? Yeah, might be a good idea to get it (though ideally you would have gone to a breeder who does thorough health testing, blah blah blah). Some insurance companies will cover fewer issues on purebreds. Also cryingscarf had a good point. It CAN be worth getting in some cases. I have a stupidly healthy dog and have never really needed it, so it would be a waste of money for me (I do put money into savings in case something happens). I can't really tell you which pet insurance people are sketchy or not, I only have experience with CareCredit.
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I think I might be a bit bitter because when I took Tater in for his first puppy visit the vet sold me a $700 "comprehensive wellness plan" that they phrased like insurance and turned out to be anything but. Turned out that aside from his neutering only the vet visits were covered -- none of the associated medicine, no procedures or anything else. And the $2k duck-swallowing incident? They didn't cover a dime. Nor did they cover his 1-year shots even though I did it before the plan expired. When I did the math after the plan expired I paid afoul $300 more than I would have if I'd just paid out of pocket for the other vet visits I did. After the duck I took a look at some of the pamphlets on the insurance plans my vet accepts and they were so full of scare language that I was turned off entirely. And so I'm left thinking of the vet's business side and insurers both the way you think of auto mechanics. What really galls me about the industry though is this: How the hell is someone without a degree in Actuarial Science supposed to cut through the myriad options, each with myriad conditions and caveats, and figure out what's actually best? You can't, and they know it.
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My roommate has a new puppy! Cute little thing, full of bounce but readily picking up on the clicker training. Roommate has so far refused to acknowledge that this puppy is a girl. I know he's kept dogs before, I don't know how he hasn't cottoned on to this simple fact. Last time I brought it up he got all huffy. My guess is that after the first vet trip on Friday, his Sebastian is going to get a quick and embarrassed name change. Don't have a real question, just a little nonplussed at the situation. (She's going to be an awesome dog though)
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Sep 27, 2013 05:53
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Sep 27, 2013 06:14
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I'll have to snap a couple tomorrow, they're both asleep in the roommates room. Mea culpa.
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So your roommate adopted a puppy and doesn't want to recognize he adopted a girl? Um ok.
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cheese eats mouse posted:So your roommate adopted a puppy and doesn't want to recognize he adopted a girl? Um ok. I thought we were adopting a boy, it turned out to be a girl. The biggest problem is that there are way more awesome male dog names than female. I wanted to name the dog after UT greats, but it turns out the best woman athlete in Texas history is named Cat. Go figure.
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Sab0921 posted:I thought we were adopting a boy, it turned out to be a girl. No, no. That's okay. You made the rules, you need to apply them consistently. Name the dog Cat.
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Spengelbeiser posted:No, no. That's okay. You made the rules, you need to apply them consistently. Name the dog Cat. It's for the best really- there will be few to no other dogs named cat.
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wtftastic posted:It's for the best really- there will be few to no other dogs named cat. We went with Khaleesi cause we're nerds. It doesn't really fit with Winston, our other dog's name Edit: How do I know if the puppy has a urinary tract infection. This afternoon she peed in her crate (she's never done that before, we've had her for a week) and has peed 4 times in the last two hours (3 of them accidents inside) when she has been really good about no accidents prior to this. When she peed in the crate, it was a time when we had to leave her alone in the house for three hours, when I came back, I took her immediately to pee, and didn't notice what she had done in the crate until we got back inside. I'm worried, and the weekend is a poor time to see a vet, so I have to wait until Monday. Sab0921 fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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I'm kind of concerned for that puppy if you both couldn't figure out how to ID its sex before your brought it home AND you managed to obtain it in circumstances where the owner wouldn't have been able to just tell you - did it come from a box in front of the grocery store or something? The "my roommate and I adopted" is a red flag too, because eventually one of your will move out due to the other not doing dishes or some bullshit, and who gets the dog?wtftastic posted:It's for the best really- there will be few to no other dogs named cat. And I've recently met two D-O-G named dogs, one was "Diogee" and the other was just d.o.g.
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Me and the other guy who posted aren't the same person. When I say "we" I mean my wife and I!
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Speaking of pee, I'm getting wildly frustrated with Truck and her accidents. In the beginning, it was my fault..but I'm wondering if its spiraling into 'whelp...I..sorta gotta pee..so Im gunna pee' when I first got her, I was worried about how she'd handle me being at work.. like.. leaving at say 6 or 7am and walking her beforehand... then coming back at 1pm to 4pm ish..and she was OKAY. of course I hurried her out and she'd pee and poop. She got another one in the evening and then night time. Fast forward a few weeks, to today.. I woke up around 7am because she full on pooped/peed her crate. This was probably my fault as I fell asleep the previous night at around 8:30pm thinking Id get up later but I slept all the way through. She had about 5 walks that day- 6am, 10 or 11am ish, 430 , 8~~. I was really annoyed so I just cleaned it up and went back to sleep. I took her out around 12 or so once I really got up. I should have walked her but, it had looked like she voided everything. Fed her/water in between...I walked her again at about 3..ish? 4pm? Went out, came back and walked her around...7-8. She had..a sorta accident? I go out with her into the yard before leashing her and I went to rinse something really quick out there, when she ran back up the steps to the door and peed on the doormat. All the times before, she'd hang out in the yard and when she had to go, she'd walk to the gate- its a good matybe 20-30+ yards away from the door. Put her in her crate with 2 puzzle toys with a little bit of kibble. Came back around 11pm to a lot of pee. Walked her now, its about midnight. I keep feedings to generally in the afternoon- I never feed in the morning or night so..say between 1-3pm, one little meal. Gets water then. No food at night except maybe for a chew, and very very little water. And when I say walks, theyre very short ones meant for her to eliminate, generally around 10-20 min. I try tiring her out during playing/training sessions. I'm gunna try limited her food/water to an even more specific time and try more walks to give her the chance to set up better habits again, but I am at work and I dont want to rely on my family. My mum has been taking her out when I'm at work. Another other advice? e: a few clarifications... for cleaning the messes in her crate, I use paper towels, antibacterial "swiffer" wipes, and a buttload of natures miracle. She DOES have sep. anxiety, I'm not sure how related it is because she would cry and bark since day 1 but there werent issues before. Malalol fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Sep 28, 2013 |
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coyo7e posted:I met a girl a couple months ago who was dogwalking a male black lab named Cat for some Japanese exchange student friend of hers who was retarded enough to buy a black lab puppy while she lived in the dorms before she would move back home on graduating.. This level of idiocy is pretty impressive. Getting a dog in another country when you're an exchange. I'm surprised it she was even allowed by the shelter/rescue/breeder to take ownership. Then again I jumped through hoops to get my rescue dog which isn't even pure bred.
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Malalol posted:Speaking of pee, I'm getting wildly frustrated with Truck and her accidents. In the beginning, it was my fault..but I'm wondering if its spiraling into 'whelp...I..sorta gotta pee..so Im gunna pee' when I first got her, I was worried about how she'd handle me being at work.. like.. leaving at say 6 or 7am and walking her beforehand... then coming back at 1pm to 4pm ish..and she was OKAY. of course I hurried her out and she'd pee and poop. She got another one in the evening and then night time. How old is the pup? Also, when she goes outside are you treating her like mad? She needs an incentive to want to go outside. We had a similar problem where we thought we had our pup house broken but it turns out when we left her for longer periods she didn't bother to hold it. We started then giving her a small treasure trove of treats each time she would pee/poop outside and about a week later she will no walk to the door then to where we are sitting letting us know she wants to go out. No accidents in two months.
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I thought I'd show off a picture of my puppy! This is Khaleesi (the bigger one is her older brother Winston). We have no idea what kind of dog Khaleesi is, she's a little rescue puppy. We think she might be part lab and maybe part pit? (Winston is half lab/half mutt). The rescuer told us she was 9 weeks old when we got her, so she would be 10.5 weeks now. She's a good dog for the most part, she can sit, sometimes lay down (but she seems rather disinterested in clicker training, she gets bored quickly). She loves her older brother Winston, and wants to follow him around everywhere (Winston could give a drat that she exists, and sometimes gets annoyed at her puppyness). Also she bit my friend in the face (that's worrisome, but chalked up to puppy behavior right now). Hopefully she turns out to be a great dog!  
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My dog won't stop pooping in his crate. He's not a puppy, he's a bit over 5 years old. We adopted him from a bad home 8 months ago, and for the first 6 he's been a delight. He behaves, comes when called, is never aggressive, and only went outside. We'd been leaving him reign of the house while we were at work without issue, but about two months ago he started pooping in my office. We started by just closing all the doors, but then he went to pooping on the stairs. After doing some reading, we bought him a crate, sized appropriately for a small dog. At first, he was very good. Lately, he resists going in the crate no matter how many treats we bribe him with, and once every three to four days he poops in the crate and out the crate door onto the floor. What are we doing wrong? What makes a grown dog who was previously being very good just start pooping in the house? We thought about putting him in the crate while we were home one weekend and just watching for him to start pooping so we can correct him, but we weren't sure if this is mean. What should we do to correct this behavior? We live in a condo, so putting him outside during the day isn't an option.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:We thought about putting him in the crate while we were home one weekend and just watching for him to start pooping so we can correct him, but we weren't sure if this is mean. What should we do to correct this behavior? We live in a condo, so putting him outside during the day isn't an option. Don't do this. How long are you leaving him in his crate? Small dogs are often harder than large dogs to housebreak. They physically can't hold it as well as big dogs, so you have to be pretty proactive about getting them on a schedule and taking them out regularly. Feed early enough in the morning so you can take him out 30 minutes later and walk until he poops. If you can get someone to walk him at lunch all the better. Dogs have a denning instinct, so they won't usually choose to poop if they're confined if they can hold it. This can be overwritten if they're stuck in their own crap for a long time, so avoiding repeating the mistake is pretty important.
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Engineer Lenk posted:Don't do this. He's crated for about 8 hours while I'm at work. He doesn't usually poop in the morning when we take him out, but this morning I got up early and walked around with him for 20 minutes until he did. What confused us is why he started doing it all of a sudden. He was totally fine and never went in the house for 6 months. Is the sudden change in behavior really just that he's having trouble holding it? It's not a huge burden to get up early and walk around until he poops, it's just that everything I'd read said it wasn't necessary and that dogs can hold it as well as humans.
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When was the last time he was at the vet? When a behavior change comes seemingly out of nowhere, sometimes there are underlying medical causes that are worth trying to rule out first.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:He's crated for about 8 hours while I'm at work. He doesn't usually poop in the morning when we take him out, but this morning I got up early and walked around with him for 20 minutes until he did. Something threw him off his rhythm - it might have been medical, a change in activity level, a change in the amount or type of food he's eating, or something he got into. Whatever it was was acute enough to overcome his previous inhibitions, and may have put him on a different schedule. If you don't address it quickly it can become behavioral. My dogs get into something that gives them soft stool and throws them out of whack a couple of times a year or so. I deal with it by upping active management, offering them more chances to go out and leaving them for shorter periods of time until they're back to normal. If that doesn't work, and it doesn't even out in a couple of days, then it's vet time. Engineer Lenk fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 1, 2013 |
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Oct 1, 2013 18:14
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ButWhatIf posted:When was the last time he was at the vet? When a behavior change comes seemingly out of nowhere, sometimes there are underlying medical causes that are worth trying to rule out first. He's been to the vet since this behavior started and got a 100% clean bill of health. We have noticed that he's eating more lately, so it's possible that he's off rhythm like Engineer Lenk says. We'll try giving him a more structured eating schedule and making sure that he's pooping every morning and see how it goes. I'd love to not crate him at all. He's very well behaved in terms of being courteous to household objects, it was just the pooping that started us crating him.
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Ai ai ai. Penny loves to dig. I've got to nip this in the bud before it gets to be a habit, but it's a shame that I can't just let her frolic in the back yard freely anymore. I don't suppose there's a miracle suggestion for digging puppies?
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Consider making a sandbox where the dog can dig appropriately. Also, most of this is decent advice: http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-a-Dog-from-Digging
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This is Seb, he's a 9 week old Golden Retriever- I just got him this past weekend, working on house training and basic clicker training. I'm having some issues house training that I'm not sure how to handle. I'm bringing him outside after eating, playing, napping, and regularly in between, and he will eliminate every time (and get plenty of praise for it). The problem is, in between those times, he will pee 0-5 times inside in random places, but just a tiny bit. I can catch him sometimes, but he doesn't do the full sniffing around routine so it is pretty quick. From what I've read so far, I should increase treats when he goes outside to further encourage that behavior, but is there anything else I could be doing aside from bringing him out even more frequently? And because we can't have enough puppy pictures... Say no to this, I dare you   
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m.hache posted:How old is the pup? shes about a year to a year and a half. I need to start the treat thing..but dang, it was just going so well for 3 weeks and now..she just doesnt want to hold it in anymore? I'm wondering how long digestive processes take. She went in the crate again today (well, more times in between my last post) and my family is getting even more annoyed at the dog saying I should get rid of her and go buy a nice healthy puppy because she is obviously sick if she is going in the crate (durrrr). i dont ask them to clean it up but they did today. Sched yesterday 5:30am - take her out. she peespoops, i go to work 10am - 1pm - anytime between, family takes her out. pee poop. 4pm - 4:30 - I get back around then, take her out, pee poop. 5:30 - 6:30 - when I get back from work, she'll get training session for food. gets water. depending on how long food session takes, goes back out to do both 8 - 10 - depending on if i end up napping, dinner or whatever, she gets another and does both. gets very little water. 11-1pm - does both again So she pretty much peepoops every time we go out, the 6pm one wont be a full one. food only at one period of time, maybe a few treats of kibble pieces through out the day. food only around the afternoonish/eve. I'm trying to feed once a day so everything kinda gets disgested and she doesnt have to poop so many times but!!!! afaik, dogs really only do it 2-3 times a day maybe so is there something abnormal going on? Today, fam tried taking her out at 1pm and she already went both in the crate. (EDIT: got clarified, was just solid poop no pee) thats 7.5 hours? which is completely holdable for her... folks arent necessarily up yet at 10-11 to take her out again, but Im hoping she is okay with 12pm to go out instead of 1........she does know to go out, and when i do, she immediately runs to her spot (its right outside the house) and eliminates 100% of the time there. then we go walk a little bit and she might do a second smaller poop a few yards down but she is finished by then. If I take her out for a real walk, she doesnt poop anymore but does really small pees randomly- like when dogs mark. If she had food at 5pm and was taken out 3 more times before im at work I feel like she should be pretty dang empty and not going in the crate when Im gone the next day 
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Malalol posted:shes about a year to a year and a half. I need to start the treat thing..but dang, it was just going so well for 3 weeks and now..she just doesnt want to hold it in anymore? I'm wondering how long digestive processes take. What sort of food are you feeding her? That seems like an awful lot of poop. Our pup poops maybe 2-3 times today. Nyx is only 5 months old and can hold it for an entire night. We had our first accident last night (at my parents house so she was probably excited) in 2 months. It's possible her food has a lot of filler so she's dumping much more of it. We had that problem at first but switched her to Hills Vet Brand and she's been great since.
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Using merricks but I'm switching over to costco food due to price. Which isnt a bad food, she switches between hard and diarrhea but its been clearing up after starting using http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/perfect-form I was wondering if its like..ibd or something..but she seems healthy otherwise, clear coat (shedding like mad when i first got her, but fine now), and weight is fine.
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bimmian posted:Housetraining problems Go outside with more frequent intervals. How often are you taking him out right now outside of those activities? The guide in the OP says every 2 hours at least. If you're still having accidents, dial it back to 1 hour. If that doesn't seem to be working, go to 30 minutes. Since this is a puppy, some portion of this is likely over-excited bladder. Rule out medical, which I assume you have already done, and then set up a regimen where your dog literally cannot fail. So go outside more often and stay out there longer. If he has no urine in his bladder, he can't pee in the house. Restricting water intake is a last resort, but it is on the table as a last resort if the above doesn't work. If it's over-excited bladder, the most likely outcome is that he'll grow out of it, but some dogs don't and you'll have to manage it, but let's cross that bridge if and when we have to.
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MrFurious posted:Go outside with more frequent intervals. How often are you taking him out right now outside of those activities? The guide in the OP says every 2 hours at least. If you're still having accidents, dial it back to 1 hour. If that doesn't seem to be working, go to 30 minutes. Since this is a puppy, some portion of this is likely over-excited bladder. Rule out medical, which I assume you have already done, and then set up a regimen where your dog literally cannot fail. So go outside more often and stay out there longer. If he has no urine in his bladder, he can't pee in the house. Restricting water intake is a last resort, but it is on the table as a last resort if the above doesn't work. If it's over-excited bladder, the most likely outcome is that he'll grow out of it, but some dogs don't and you'll have to manage it, but let's cross that bridge if and when we have to. He is going out every 1-2 hours during the day, more often and for longer periods in the evening when I get home. Over-excited bladder could certainly be it though, it seemed to have picked up as he was getting over his separation anxiety and becoming more rambunctious, if that makes sense. My mother watches him during the day and she said he was better today than the last 2 days. 
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I got an 8 month Yorkie a week ago. I was told that she was working on the whole potty thing when I got her. I make a conscious effort to take her out about every 4 hours except at night. She sleeps in the bed with me and we go out just before lights out. The very first night there was an accident (in the bed, but I blame that on new home nerves) and there was an accident 2 mornings ago when I slept in. I am finding several accidents throughout the day (usually pee spots). I am going to start the treats when we go out, but it seems that she does not empty her bladder when we go out. She will squat but it is just a dribble. She will do this several times on one bathroom trip. I am a nurse so I work 12 hour shifts but I only work 3 days a week. My fiancee takes her out when I am working. I take her out when I get up for work or when I get up for the day (5am on work days 7-8am non work days) and on my work days he will take her out before he goes to work (9ish). If he gets a lunch break that he can come home, he will walk her then if not then she is walked at 5ish when he gets home from work. The last few days I have been off and I have still noticed the pee puddles. Any advice for getting the potty training ball rolling? Obligatory puppy pictures:  
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Crate training and talk to a vet about a possible UTI.
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a life less posted:Crate training and talk to a vet about a possible UTI. I will make an appointment with the vet but I'm not crazy about the idea of crate training. Its not just a problem when we are not home, she does it when we are home as well.
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SuzieMcAwesome posted:I will make an appointment with the vet but I'm not crazy about the idea of crate training. Its not just a problem when we are not home, she does it when we are home as well. The housebreaking protocol is basically to make sure the dog is either contained or actively supervised at all times. If she's supervised you can get her out when she starts sniffing around or starts to squat. If she's contained it needs to be in a footprint small enough that the denning instinct kicks in and she'll try to hold it. Crate and tether is the easiest way to make this happen, but a small ex-pen might work in a pinch.
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The reasoning behind crate specifically is that dogs don't want to soil their den space, and a crate simulates that den thing all nicely for them. Unless the dog is from a puppy mill or pet store -those dogs have lost their inhibition against using the den as a toilet.
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SuzieMcAwesome posted:I will make an appointment with the vet but I'm not crazy about the idea of crate training. Its not just a problem when we are not home, she does it when we are home as well. It doesn't have to be a crate if you're uncomfortable with those in particular. It can be a little x pen set up with blankets. Just something to give her the notion of being in a den to take advantage the aversion that comes along with it of "do not poo poo where I sleep." By giving her access to different parts of the house, she doesn't have to work on holding it at all because she can go pee somewhere else. I would also say start regulating her water intake. We very strictly regulate the water my fiance's dog gets because she's a smallish dog (25 pounds) and so her bladder isn't big enough to hold it for as long as larger dogs can. This is going to be even more true for a yorkie, so I would also discuss with the vet limiting her access to water at certain times, just to make sure she's healthy enough for that. We limit our dog to a set amount of water in the evenings on an average night (more if she goes for a long walk) because she's always been weird and will drink every drop you put in front of her, but for your dog it might be best to let her have free access to the bowl from when you get home from work until about 1-2 hours before bed.
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