[Potter]

Hi there, I read your first post and lately I have been seeing a lot of posts where people have been using crates to train puppies. I don't know how your schedule is like but just an idea, why not use an xpen? I can't stress this enough because although people think it is easier to use a small crate to potty train, an xpen would actually be easier and better for the puppy in the long run especially if your not home for a few hours at a time because puppies wouldn't be able to hold for long and you don't have to worry about rushing home. An xpen would be able to let you put a crate with the his pillow and blankie in it, just leave the gate open in the xpen. You can also put pee pad, water bowl, food bowl with toys and a small area for the puppy to roam. Put the xpen in tiled area so it is easy for you to clean shall puppy make any mess at all. The xpen would also allow you to keep it without taking up much space. You can stain the pee pad with some pee from your puppy to give puppy an idea to use it or use those potty training spray to put some smell on the pee pad. You have to start with this and eventually when you can trust your pup with 90% accuracy of using the pee pad, you can let pupp roam your house but it is always almost safer to keep them in an xpen when you cannot watch them when they are a pup because they can get in to anything and until you can trust them that they won't, do watch them closely. Sometimes they are too smart for their own good.

Just to add from my own experience, my yorkie now knows how to use pee pad with 99% accuracy and knows how to do it outside if we do go out.