[Bizzymammabee]

Originally Posted by captianjack

As I said he is my first Yorkie. In fact he is my first little dog.
He challanges me all the time and I love him to death. But he
honestly loves his crate, he sleeps with me at night but when
naps during the day I leave the door open and he chooses to
sleep there himself or he sleeps in his own purse/carry bed or
on my lap depending what we are up too.

I do have a question though, if anyone can help. Maybe I will
have to make a new thread to ask it properly. But here goes.

My question is for all you Yorkie pros and lovers, I just would like
to know if Jack doesn't take food treats (I haven't found one not
cheese or chicken or bacon ect. not a thing works as a treat yet),
but I am attempting to train him to completely do his potty outside.

At the moment he is using the puppy pads quite well but we have
two small problems. The first one being that he only goes on the
puppy pad in a play pen, (just that one play pen means that just
that one play pen hast to go everywhere with us which does end
up with problems even at home we have 4 floors and the second is
I beleive worse, when he gets into a silly mood, he eats the
chews up the puppy pad. If I turn my back for two minutes,
he could be chewing on a nasty bite.

Please advise Captian Jack and I, any opinion would be great.

Thanks ahead,
Jackies Mom

I have always started with the pads and then eventually moved them closer to the door. Then as I continually take them out they will just end up doin their business outdoors and forget about the pads. It's definitely about consistency and stayin on top of them even though it makes us want to pull out our hair.

I know part of my problems is that I began to give zoey too much leeway because I probably still subconsciously think of caring for Lulu. She was outside trained by 8 months with no accidents in the house.

Most yorkies love paper...so the pee pad is a paper item to them. I suggest start moving the pad out of the playpen. You can initially take a soiled pad outside and put it where you want him to go. Then he will sort of get the gist that is where he will be going and after he goes there the usual praise works. Then a bit later you will be able to remove that pad and hopefully he will continue to go in that spot.