Most 8 week old puppies are still with their mommies and littermates. The way breeders "train" is just to keep them in a x-pen with lots of papers or pee pads. Gradually, you reduce the number of papers or pee pads. You must remember that a 8 week old yorkie is much different than an 8 week old lab, who is ready to leave mom at that age. If you try to crate train, you will need to let her out at least once every hour, her bladder is too small to hold it any longer than that. No matter what anyone says, do not restrict water, puppies can become dehydrated very rapidly and this can be deadly. Your job is to make your puppy feel secure, and unafraid of humans, as well as keeping her safe from all the hazards in the enviorment. I think as she gets closer to 12 weeks you might try crate training, and this is especially good overnight, but you still need to take them out of the crate at least once at this age. Urine production slows down at night so they can hold it longer, and when you take her out, you should place her either outside or on a pee pad, and praise her and give her a small treat, like a cheerio. During the day you can either keep her in a small crate and take her out hourly and after she goes pee, she can have a few minutes of supervised play outside the crate. Otherwise you can just use the x-pen method with the pee pad. If she's ever our of the x-pen make sure a pee pad is close to her, they won't go very far to seek them out. |