My Mocha just turned 6 months, and I think that clock thing might be sort of true O_O
It has been 2 days since she had an accident in my room, JOY OH JOY (bless you puppy pee gods).
I fenced her in with her bed, toys, water and pad in a frameholder. I made her space so there's not way she would have an accident. I scatter her toys everywhere in her "room", just pack everything in tightly so there's no space between the pads and other things she will not pee in. Works GREAT! Add to it that I'm the most hopeless housebreaker ever lived. But even fenced in, whenever I catch her pee-ing or pooping on her pad, I give her a treat. THAT worked so well she has taken to waking me up right after she pees in the morning to 1. give her treat and 2. get her breakfast
Now, she only lets me know when she has gone pooping on the pad, not the pee anymore. And she holds it in nicely! Whenever she's on my bed, before when she wants to pee she just looks at me and goes, very little warning. But now, she gets very panicked and I think that's letting me know
she's not a barker, so I don't expect her to tell me by barking. After her baths, when I blowdry her and she gets agitated, I let her go and she RUNS straight to the pad. I was so happy! Also (and I don't know if this is an upside or downside) when we take her go running, she does not pee until she gets in the house. She will run up the stairs and just barged into my room and go pee.
Please, please, if taking them out every 30-45 minutes is too bothersome for you, try the fenced in with the pad thing. I did it for 2 months, and now I can leave Mocha unguarded. I am the most hopeless, impatient, and the biggest quitter ever lived, but if I can do it, so can you! It might look a bit boring for the pups to live fenced in for the first few months 20 hours a day, but leave toys and maybe some snacks (carrots, bits of animal cookies) and water and they'll do fine. It's for their, and your own good.
Right now, I do not believe in Yorkies being notorious to housebreak. I think it just takes a little consistency.
Just a little sharing amongst dog owners.