I've only had my yorkie for a week, and am having my own potty battle with him, but I study cognitive and behavioral psych and see a few things that may be the issue. I hope my advice is helpful!
I think he is probably very confused. This is the third place where he's been told to pee, and he has no idea what is appropriate any more. Any kind of animal training needs consistancy, and whenever you make a change it might take a while for the animal/puppy to generalize the behavior to the new situation. For example, I taught my baby to sit, and then come up on his hind legs like he is standing (I think it is the cutest thing) When he learned the trick, I took him downstairs to show my mom, and he wouldn't do it! He didn't know that I wanted the behavior to occur in other situations, ie downstairs in front of people as opposed to our bedroom where I trained him. To get him to generalize, I had to retrain him in a couple of different situations. It didn't take as long as the first training, but it reminded him of the behavior I want.
Your puppy understand's "go pee" in the situation where he was let out of his crate and given newspaper, and doesn't yet understand that "go pee" means that you expect the same behavior outside on grass. You need to retrain him to perform this behavior in the new situation. Whenever you catch him peeing on the carpet, you have to take him outside, or interrupt the behavior so he knows it isn't acceptable. When he pees outside, you have to reward him... make a big fuss. Let him know as he's going that it's what he's getting the attention for (when he squats, say "good boy" or "yay" or whatever) and then 'throw the parade' as someone else suggested, when he's finished his business. He just needs to know what is expected of him! I clicker train my baby, so that it's easy to let him know that he's doing what I want him to do. It's kind of an involved process though, and takes a lonnnng time and patience.
Paddington chews on my clothes too... espsecially my bathrobe. He'll bite the ends of it while I'm walking and drag his little tush on the floor like a mop. It was cute at first, but it is especially annoying when I'm getting ready to go somewhere. He also likes to chew on the peasant tops that I wear all the time, since they're longer. I usually distract him with a favorite toy, or play tug of war with a dish towell with him, and he usually stops. He just wants to play.
I hope I've helped. I'm fighting the housetraining battle with mine too. My problem is, I can't always catch him squatting- I find a puddle long after he's made it, when nothing can be done. I've been crating him when I can't watch him, and I've made a lot of progress the last day!
Good luck with your baby, and let your mom know that it takes time for dogs to figure out what we want, and it usually takes us even more time to figure out how to tell them. I'm sure the dog isn't bad, you just haven't been able to communicate with him. Once he understands that 1. You (not he) are the boss, and 2.what you want him to do, he will be a very well behaved dog! Don't give up yet!
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