[SophieKatesMom]

I will start off by saying I am not a Yorkie expert by any means, just an owner who recently went through potty training. Here are some suggestions that may help.

1. Have you considered crate training? It sounds like Killer may be getting a little to much freedom and needs to be confined until he is a little older. Also is anyone taking Killer outside during the time span between when you leave for work and your oldest child gets home? That is a long time for a puppy to "hold it". If you decide to get a crate my rule was when puppy comes out of the crate it goes immediately outside, I mean feet did not ever touch the ground until it was safe to go potty.

2. Are you training Killer to potty outside or on a pad? My Sophie Kate is trained primarly for outside and will use a pad only when it is raining. In both cases you have to set expectations on where you want them go. In the beginning until they can control their functions you need to take them out every hour or two hours and praises when they go (treats worked for me and a lot of clapping my hands and saying good girl).

3. The same thing for pad training, Sophie Kate still at 10 months does not have full run of the house. She needs to be with us in the room we are in, when training for the pad I would place her on the pad and say "go potty" - after a few weeks she got it and still get praised for going on the pad. I should note the pad is in our garage and she is still on the leash, I did not want to confuse her to much.

Those are just my suggestions but there are a lot of posts in the training section about Potty Training. I read through most of them and combined any information I thought would be useful. Good luck, do not get discouraged and if you do don't worry I think potty training Sophie Kate made my hair gray.