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Originally Posted by Nervousnewyorkieowner
I have a new yorkie male who is 11 weeks. We're on MN and it's winter so this creates a huge problem with outside training that I am accustomed to. He just freezes up immediately. I have researched on many sites, crate train vs play pen...pee pads. Do the go in the pen or not!? This guy will pee and then come in and pee again 2 minutes later. Pooping has been easy because he has a huge tell. But he pees whenever and I think he'll not make it going outside all winter and I need an inside option that can convert to outside. Help!!
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You put a thick sweater on him to go outside? And there are booties, which work well. I used those for snow days for my cocker spaniel. He walked very well in the booties. Yorkies don't have an undercoat and not much fat, and they are so small, that it's MUCH colder to their little bodies than yours.
Second suggestion: I trained one of my dogs (before my current dogs) to use a pee pad in the bathroom, in emergencies. He'd use that during the day when I was at work, and it came in handy on bad weather days and when he got old and sick. They don't always hit the pad, so I put the pad on top of a much larger newspaper pad. Sometimes he'd stand on the pee pad but his wee would be outside of the pee pad.
Third: Do you have a garage? I thought the garage would work well for my current dogs, who don't want to go out in the rain. I used newspapers and pee pads. But they would have none of it. They are thoroughly trained not to potty indoors. But yours is a puppy so young enough to learn to do that. I thought keeping it in the garage would be less risky than confusing them with pottying indoors, even if using a pee pad.
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