Unfortunately, the best way to teach a yorkie where to go potty only, is to make sure that that is the only place they go all the time. In other words, you must not allow for potty mistakes, which means you must keep an eye on your little one at all times (never remove your eyes from her) as long as you are letting her loose in the house. You must constantly direct her to her potty pads, at least once an hour to reinforce the need to go potty and where to go.
Basically, you are trying to undo what you have subconsciously taught her. You have taught her that its ok to potty on the pads, on the carpet and outside on the patio, because she has been "allowed" to do it, whether you approve or not.
So you have to "un-allow" her, by making sure she ONLY does it on the potty pads or outside, by preventing her from going anywhere else and the only way to do this is to watch her every minute of every second of every nano-second.
Once you have kept this regiment up for several months, she will understand that there are only 2 acceptable places to go and that is potty pad or outside. It may take longer, because your little one has developed a preference of where she likes to urinate and that's on carpet. So you have to re-program her preference to the acceptable texture of a pee pad or outside. This preference has to be constantly reinforced until it becomes her preference and this may take longer than if you were training a new puppy who has not developed the preference yet.
Just my thoughts. It will be a lot of hard work, but it really is the only way. |