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Originally Posted by MKnight24  I bought a 4ft x 4ft pen for her to play in. Originally I had pee pads lined all over the floor. I was worried if I got her used to eliminating waste indoors that it may become more difficult to train her to do otherwise later on. |
You can train them to go outside when she's older. Just like you don't try and potty train a 6 month old baby, you don't try and train a 8 week old Yorkie. I put Joey in an xpen during the day and when I took him out to spend time with him a pee pad was close by. As your pup gets closer to 12 weeks old you can begin training. At that point, you could begin crate training, they can only hold it for an hour during the day and no more than 3 hours during the night, but you have to take them out every hour. I kept Joey in a small crate next to my bed only at night and took him out every few hours and placed him on a pee pad, but you could do the same and place him outside. Joey's duel trained, it's really great if they will use a pee pad, especially if you can't be home all the time. Doggy doors don't work with Yorkies, they are too vulnerable to predators. Crate training is effective and fast, it can be accomplished in a week or so, but you must be there to do it. An older dog can be crate trained, but only if someone has never trained them to get use to lying in their own pee.