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Old 11-20-2010, 11:20 AM   #4
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I went back and read some of your earlier posts. I think you need to reasses your potty training strategy. Yorkies can be *extremely* difficult to train.

There are several different methods, and approximately 1,000,000 threads here on each one of them. It sounds like she is at least partially crate trained, so you can go from there.

Here's what worked with Thor: I would not let him out of his crate until he used the potty pad. If he didn't use it, he went back into the crate for fifteen minutes, and then we tried again. Once he used it, I would play with him in a small area. I gradually expanded his area as he proved reliable. If I gave him access to a new room and he peed in it, I restricted the area again. Now he has free run of my apartment (~1100 sq feet), with two potty pads.

Also, whenever he went potty on his pad, he got lots of praise and a great treat.
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