If you are going to keep her in the bathroom I would get a gate to secure her in there rather than shut her in there with the door. That way she won't feel so totally isolated from everything. You are leaving her alone for a major part of the day and it would not be good to have her totally shut off from everything for that long. I agree it would be good if you had someone who could come in and let her out at least once during the day. You have very few hours during the day to work on her training so you have your work cut out for you. Since she is using a pee pad for the major part of the day you are going to have to spend most of your time outside to get her to learn to go outside as well.
If you want her trained to go outside you need to be training her right now. Leave the puppy pads down for when you are away but when you are home you need to be working on outside training. As it is you are already having to re-train since she was already pee pad trained. It's kind of hard to reverse something that she is already used to doing so you are going to be spending a lot of time outside to have her get the idea that you want her to go out there only. Remember that Yorkies tend to have small bladders and have to go more often then a regular sized dog.
I can understand you not wanting her on the tables but most little dogs want to be lap dogs so you may be fighting quite a battle to keep her off the furniture. Does she have her own bed? My little one was never able to get on the coffee table so yours must be quite a jumper.
Many stores sell frames for the pee pads if you don't already have one. |