I have a 2 year old yorkie, and although he will go to the door when he wants to go out, if we don't notice him there  almost immediately he will wee on the floor. He will not wait to go out. Just wondered if you have any tips on getting him to wait until the door is opened.
jane

Try a windchime at nose height. Teach him to chime it using tasty titbits. Your probably not noticing him in time?

As above :)

also, if it's really wet outside and chucking it down, he may think he's gone as for 'out' as is needed in such foul weather LOL

wash the area with bio washing powder and rinse with dilute vinegar to prevent repeats :)

None of mien bark to be let out, so it really means that you have to endure they go out at regular intervals rather than have to ask to go out.  I prefer for them not to get in the habit of barking to go out.

Hi I would like to teach my pup this as we are openplan and can't always see her at the door. How exactly is the chime method taught? And how will she associate the chime with wanting to go out?
Thanks
Angela

We have a dog flap so therfore free acess...............but if it is foul weather he will try, and has managed to wee at the door/flap!

We taught our puppy the 'speak' command because shes not a breed that barks a lot and then everytime we took her to the door to go out we gave her the command. Now its habit for her to bark at the door when she wants to go out.

Another vote for the windchime method here, or maybe a bell?

I'm having housetraining issues with two of mine at the moment, and TBH I wouldn't recommend a dog flap for a youngster that's still learning where he/she should go.  Those two grew up with a dogflap, never made a mess inside the house.  Now, I don't have one, and almost every night they are making a mess - one makes no effort at all to let me know, she just goes at night.  The other whines briefly, it doesn't always wake me up (this is first thing in the morning) and he goes in the front room.  Sometimes he won't even warn.

They've gotten used to being able to go when they wanted, so now I'm about to start teaching them to signal using a bell.  I will also generalise it to upstairs - Remy sleeps on the bed and I wouldn't wake up if he rang it downstairs.

One other thing, blocking access to typical mess spots seems to help - mine tend to go in the front room, so if I shut the door at night it definitely helps.  Not always, but most of the time.

I too like the wind chime idea, it is something I would personally have never thought of, if it works that is great. :-)

My girl will always do a little bark at the patio door to let me know if she wants to go out, but in having my mum's and brothers dogs quite often and it not being their full time home I also have a few of them that will just sit at the door without sound waiting for me to notice them. :-P

But, the best way to avoid this is to make sure that he has had his exercise and relieved himself, leaving a good few hours before the next time, then call him to go in the garden every hour or so, so as to avoid him needing to even tell you (silently :-D ) that he needs to go.

It is certainly not uncommon to sit at the door, we are just expected to be vigilant and notice. :-)

Both of mine come to me and 'ask' to go out :)  no barking, they just come to me and give me the 'look' :)  if I don't notice I get a polite paw and the look :)  they also ask OH and son too :)

If the water bowl isn't to their liking (smell of chlorine not strong enough ;-) ) they come to me and lick their lips in a kind of a lip-smack

I'm trained to a very high standard now :-D :-D :-D  might even get my Bronze citizen soon :) do they do one for two legs ? :-D

We're very well trained here too :-D, lol, we get the 'look' too followed by a look towards the door.  If we don't respond quickly enough, a whine, a paw and another 'look'.   If on the very rare occasion, Shebs wants to go out early in the morning and I'm not up and I don't hear her whine, she gives a solitary bark, which never fails.... If I'm on the sofa at night when OH's away, I get a snout in my face...

Yep, they've got us well trained...

I like the wind chime idea, cute :-D