So, our little Yorkie is only 13 weeks old, and we're having house breaking problems.

I've been trying to crate train him and we have him on as close to a schedule as my wife will allow, because she won't let me regulate his food and water intake. He has no problems peeing outside. He gets put out as soon as we take him out of the crate in the morning, and regularly ever two hours throughout the day.
He does this outside, without problems, and he rarely pees in the house, even when we pen him in the kitchen for extended periods.

The problem lies with him dumping anywhere he pleases.
We'll let him outside for 20+ minutes, and he'll wait until we bring him back INSIDE to dump. We've tried waiting longer outside, and lengthening the times between putting him out. He still just waits until we get back inside.

We've been refraining from smacking him for it, since it's fairly evident that it's a fault on our part, and I don't want him to start hiding it where we can't find it. For some reason or another he's learned that he has to pee outside, but dumping in the house is alright.

In addition, he's very weird about it. Nine times out of ten after he poops in the house he'll growl and paw at it, to let us know that he's done his business, and I can't tell if he's trying to play with his own feces or if he's trying to tell us that it needs picked up off the floor.

Any suggestions?

u should set a regular feeding time for ur pup. wen he does go in the house tell him "BAD DOG" as u clean up his mess make sure he sees u and knows what u are doing my dogs are always. also try to wait till u see him about to poop and yell NO! then take him outside and make him STAY outside until he goes, wen he does tell him how good he is and give love... thats how i potty train all my dogs. is this wont work then ur gonna have to spank em lol.

This post was edited by Sicken on Jul 30 2012 10:04am

try to avoid hitting dogs because often when you hit them they might not know why you are. but there are matts you can get for housebreaking which lures pets to go on there, then you can try to make them go outside by learning. also a regular feeding time is key, then take them outside shortly after so they can go and reward them with a pat or something so they know they've done something right. i dont remember house breaking my dogs much, but good luck with yours!

obv avoid hitting them and im not saying come home and beat them for pooping while ur gone beacuse chances are they dont kno why they are getting spanked.
what i mean is if they continue then catch them in the act and pop em on the butt and make them go out right then and stay out till they go.

too much energy, needs to barrel roll