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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 215472" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Okay - you want training 101 on Yorkshire Terriers? I'll help - </p><p> </p><p>But....easy child has GOT to be willing to DO and FOLLOW through - really or it won't work. </p><p> </p><p>First off - CRATES or Dens are a safe haven for a dog. In their primal brains they have for thousands of years burrowed and lived in their dens. Wolves and wild dogs still do this today and SOME domestic dogs left outside, bored and unattended. </p><p> </p><p>Get a bloody crate and GET a baby gate for the kitchen. First things is first - PUT the crate in the kitchen and LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN.....put her blankie and a few toys in there.....COVER the crate or cage with a towel or blanket to make it dark ...like a den. SHE DOES NOT PUT THE DOG IN THE CRATE AND LEAVE HER THERE TO START - NO WAY will this work and all you will end up with is a frustrated YOU and a dog now stomping around in poop and piddle -that "A dog won't carp in it's bed." statement? Phooey. They will.....some don't but most eventually will. </p><p> </p><p>Put the baby gate up - and put some potty pads AND newspapers DOWN and put them as CLOSE to the back door as possible- take up ANY and ALL rugs - the pads of their feet will GO for the softest /most unusual spot. So rugs at this time are a no no. The idea about putting the newspaper and pads close to the door is so that eventually (yes when it's snowing) you move the papers OUTSIDE and she can smell them and you move them to the BACK part of the yard - so she's not piddlypooing near the back door - this payoff only works if you remember to put the piddlypoo papers as far away from the backdoor as you want her to piddlypoo. If you leave them by the back step or on the deck? Yup - that's where she'll go from then on - so this is really some work. </p><p> </p><p>Okay - so crate darkened, baby gate up, papers down with blankey and comfort toys for Chewing - I recommend a KONG for little tiny mouths. You can buy the pnut butter and cheese filling, squirt it in there in the morning and leave it for her to play with. Also at her age I'm not a HUGE proponent of rawhide for babies BUT if she's an aggressive chewer? a Rawhide KNOTED bone - NOT a flip chip (she needs a challenge) will help. Also toys that squeek - go to thrift stores or yard sales and buy baby teethers - get a NYLABONE - get toys with different textures, rattles....etc. Leave those for DAY time - when you see she has a favorite?? Leave it - the other toys - ROTATE. </p><p> </p><p>NOW comes the fun part - If you want to get used to HER getting used to the crate? YOU have to put her in it.....give her treats ONLY (like wavy bacon, snaussages, biscuits) IN the cage - NO treats ANYWHERE ELSE but in the crate.....NOT UNTIL SHE GETS THE CRATE IS GOOD.....if I go in the crate? I get a treat. MMMM I like the crate. And for the first WEEK.....? You or your daughter will PUT her in the crate WITH a treat and you sit in front of the door and talk very calmly to her and give her tiny tidbits of say a piece of wavy bacon dog snack. This needs to be increased every night starting with about 5 minutes each night until you build up a 30 minute tolerance of you sitting outside the cage talking to her and reassuring her.....</p><p> </p><p>Once you have 30 minutes under your belt - you can leave her in the crate with an added treat and toy - and shut the door. LEAVE HER - ignore her barking - NO ONE is to even pretend she exists. At the end of 10 minutes - you let her out and say NOTHING. Her freedom is the kitchen. She is going to LIVE in the kitchen and YOU all are going to learn to step over the baby gate.....</p><p> </p><p>The only time you ALLOW her out of the kitchen in the BIG part of the house is when you have taken her out and she piddlypoos #1 and #2 AND the toys you have in the rest of the house are new too - When you are done playing? Back out to the yard.....piddlypoo chance before bed time and then back in the kitchen - </p><p> </p><p>Eventually you will see her go into her crate by herself - but NEVER EVER leave her in a crate for more than 6 hours at a time - puppies can't hold their piddle for maybe longer than 5.5 so even 6 to start after she's used to it is long --a little too long to me. You want a smaller crate but not a tiny one - give her some room to move around, but not like a great dane box. </p><p> </p><p>The plan here (and Yorkies are VERY smart) is to train YOU. *you are ALSO VERY SMART! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p> </p><p>You also need to have an exercise plan - </p><p> </p><p>DO NOT CONFUSE piddlypoo time with playtime - HUGE mistake.......</p><p> </p><p>When you come home at night - THE FIRST thing you do - before she's used to the crate is take any and all piddlypoo papers OUTSIDE to the designated piddly poo spot, put her down and say "Okay hurry up, do tinkles or do pees in the grass, or POTTY POTTY." whatever it is you want to say - but when she piddly poos? PICK HER UP and NO playing - </p><p> </p><p>Playing and PIDDLYPOO time are to be separate. BUT if you are playing and she does piddlypoo? PRAISE her. LAVISHLY. Then just keep playing. </p><p> </p><p>She's bored. She's very bored and terriers are high energy animals....if someone could come home in the middle of the day to exercise her that would be better - but not always possible - so you're going to rely on papers and toys and you'll see that IF she is IN the kitchen, with a baby gate - she'll go into her crate BY herself and you WILL NOT NEED to lock her in it- </p><p> </p><p>That's what I love about the baby gate - If you could install a doggy door? She'd potty train her self to go outside - the grass would be more squishy than the kitchen floor - (FYI) </p><p> </p><p>Good luck -</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 215472, member: 4964"] Okay - you want training 101 on Yorkshire Terriers? I'll help - But....easy child has GOT to be willing to DO and FOLLOW through - really or it won't work. First off - CRATES or Dens are a safe haven for a dog. In their primal brains they have for thousands of years burrowed and lived in their dens. Wolves and wild dogs still do this today and SOME domestic dogs left outside, bored and unattended. Get a bloody crate and GET a baby gate for the kitchen. First things is first - PUT the crate in the kitchen and LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN.....put her blankie and a few toys in there.....COVER the crate or cage with a towel or blanket to make it dark ...like a den. SHE DOES NOT PUT THE DOG IN THE CRATE AND LEAVE HER THERE TO START - NO WAY will this work and all you will end up with is a frustrated YOU and a dog now stomping around in poop and piddle -that "A dog won't carp in it's bed." statement? Phooey. They will.....some don't but most eventually will. Put the baby gate up - and put some potty pads AND newspapers DOWN and put them as CLOSE to the back door as possible- take up ANY and ALL rugs - the pads of their feet will GO for the softest /most unusual spot. So rugs at this time are a no no. The idea about putting the newspaper and pads close to the door is so that eventually (yes when it's snowing) you move the papers OUTSIDE and she can smell them and you move them to the BACK part of the yard - so she's not piddlypooing near the back door - this payoff only works if you remember to put the piddlypoo papers as far away from the backdoor as you want her to piddlypoo. If you leave them by the back step or on the deck? Yup - that's where she'll go from then on - so this is really some work. Okay - so crate darkened, baby gate up, papers down with blankey and comfort toys for Chewing - I recommend a KONG for little tiny mouths. You can buy the pnut butter and cheese filling, squirt it in there in the morning and leave it for her to play with. Also at her age I'm not a HUGE proponent of rawhide for babies BUT if she's an aggressive chewer? a Rawhide KNOTED bone - NOT a flip chip (she needs a challenge) will help. Also toys that squeek - go to thrift stores or yard sales and buy baby teethers - get a NYLABONE - get toys with different textures, rattles....etc. Leave those for DAY time - when you see she has a favorite?? Leave it - the other toys - ROTATE. NOW comes the fun part - If you want to get used to HER getting used to the crate? YOU have to put her in it.....give her treats ONLY (like wavy bacon, snaussages, biscuits) IN the cage - NO treats ANYWHERE ELSE but in the crate.....NOT UNTIL SHE GETS THE CRATE IS GOOD.....if I go in the crate? I get a treat. MMMM I like the crate. And for the first WEEK.....? You or your daughter will PUT her in the crate WITH a treat and you sit in front of the door and talk very calmly to her and give her tiny tidbits of say a piece of wavy bacon dog snack. This needs to be increased every night starting with about 5 minutes each night until you build up a 30 minute tolerance of you sitting outside the cage talking to her and reassuring her..... Once you have 30 minutes under your belt - you can leave her in the crate with an added treat and toy - and shut the door. LEAVE HER - ignore her barking - NO ONE is to even pretend she exists. At the end of 10 minutes - you let her out and say NOTHING. Her freedom is the kitchen. She is going to LIVE in the kitchen and YOU all are going to learn to step over the baby gate..... The only time you ALLOW her out of the kitchen in the BIG part of the house is when you have taken her out and she piddlypoos #1 and #2 AND the toys you have in the rest of the house are new too - When you are done playing? Back out to the yard.....piddlypoo chance before bed time and then back in the kitchen - Eventually you will see her go into her crate by herself - but NEVER EVER leave her in a crate for more than 6 hours at a time - puppies can't hold their piddle for maybe longer than 5.5 so even 6 to start after she's used to it is long --a little too long to me. You want a smaller crate but not a tiny one - give her some room to move around, but not like a great dane box. The plan here (and Yorkies are VERY smart) is to train YOU. *you are ALSO VERY SMART! :winking: You also need to have an exercise plan - DO NOT CONFUSE piddlypoo time with playtime - HUGE mistake....... When you come home at night - THE FIRST thing you do - before she's used to the crate is take any and all piddlypoo papers OUTSIDE to the designated piddly poo spot, put her down and say "Okay hurry up, do tinkles or do pees in the grass, or POTTY POTTY." whatever it is you want to say - but when she piddly poos? PICK HER UP and NO playing - Playing and PIDDLYPOO time are to be separate. BUT if you are playing and she does piddlypoo? PRAISE her. LAVISHLY. Then just keep playing. She's bored. She's very bored and terriers are high energy animals....if someone could come home in the middle of the day to exercise her that would be better - but not always possible - so you're going to rely on papers and toys and you'll see that IF she is IN the kitchen, with a baby gate - she'll go into her crate BY herself and you WILL NOT NEED to lock her in it- That's what I love about the baby gate - If you could install a doggy door? She'd potty train her self to go outside - the grass would be more squishy than the kitchen floor - (FYI) Good luck - [/QUOTE]
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