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Niyah is 2 yrs old and I just got her last month and literally she was potty trained in days and I am not exaggerating. She was previously pee pad trained. Sure she had couple of accidents but that is my fault because I waited a little longer than I usually did but that gave me the incentive of keeping my end of the bargain. So now I take her out everytime she is not in my arms.

The trick that worked for me was I took her on walks and that is how she learned to potty outside. I would praise her everytime. I have to do it in a soft voice because the first time, I was so excited, I praised her a little loud and clapped my hands and she had this startled look on her face. So, I figured Yorkies ears must be sensitive to loud noises so I started praising her real soft and clap my hands soft too.

Crate training works too. I have a year old Samoyed that took a year for her 10 mos to learn to be fully potty trained. She was a very slow learner. My patience was wearing thin with her but we made it. The only problem she has now is when I go to get her to take her out, she gets so excited that she pees on the floor. I don't know how to break that habit. So what I do is I put her leash on after I get her outside or if she is in the kennel, I put the leash on first and if she pees in the kennel while putting her leash on, it can be cleaned easily. Oh, eventually I should be finished soon with training Apple. Niyah may be only a year older than Apple but she is a heck of a lot smarter than Apple.