I am impressed with your stick-with-it-ness. I wish we had with Huey. We thought we were being clever and bought 2 of the indoor fake grass pottys-1 for the house & 1 for the boat. We started with pee pads but Huey quickly began shredding them. We moved quickly to the indoor fake grass (as soon as he was tall enough to get on it...), but he quickly learned how to shred those, too. We had fake grass shreds all over the house and then he started dragging the grass mat all over, so we gave up on those. So, we started the outdoor-only training way too late and at almost 4 years old, we are still having issues. He knows where he is supposed to go and we do the treat for positive reinforcement every time he goes outside. He will even go outside when no one is watching, then come get one of us & take us to see the potty so he can get a treat. The problem is, although we got him fixed at 6 months old, he has to mark everything he comes in contact with. He is not having indoor accidents, he is marking his territory. It is especially bad when I visit my parents because they have 2 King Charles Cavaliers and he wants to mark their house. I have to carry him almost the whole time I am visiting (or hand him off to someone else) and I take him outside every 30 min, but he still is pushing for a "no longer welcome" there.
So, stick with it. I know all the yorkie instruction books that I bought prior to bringing Huey home talked about how difficult yorkies are to potty train, but I just really had no idea. Our last dog was a lab and he trained himself without ever having a single indoor accident. Sigh... |