[SophieKatesMom]

Hi Kathie, First let me say I am sorry for the loss of your three Yorkies, I can only imagine how hard that must of been.

It sounds like you have found a little gem with your Abbie with the exception of the pee "accidents". Let me tell you, I have been there and it is NOT fun.

What I did was made Sophie Kate follow a schedule, it started out every hour we went outside and stayed until she went and then like someone else suggested we had a HUGE celebration. That expanded to 2 hours and now we are up to about every 4 hours (and right before bed and when we first wake up).

Are you crate training her? That was a huge help for me, Sophie Kate goes in the crate whenever I am gone from home for longer than 1 hour and she had to earn the privilege of one hour of free roam. My rules where she went outside before she goes in the crate and immediately after.

The most important thing I learned is you have to stay consistent with the potty training meaning the schedule, celebrating and crating when you are gone.

Another thing I did was teach Sophie Kate the command "Go Potty". When we went outside I would say ""go potty" and give her a special treat when she went (in her case it was Cheerio's). Now as she is older if it raining or we go somewhere it is very easy to get her to go, I just use the command and reinforce it with a cheer or treat...still to this day.

Good luck and keep working at it, you will get there. It took me two years to get Sophie Kate fully trained.