I wouldn't physically discipline the dog while potty training.
If you want to scare the dog, roll up a wad of newspaper and smack your hand to make a sound, or smack the ground.
Whatever you do, if you feel like you must hit the dog, DO NOT hit the dog on the snout.
Never hit a dog, especially a yorkie, on the snout - you can kill the dog or break his snout.
Hitting a dog while potty training, as said above, will not help train the dog at all.
That being said, my dog took forever to potty train. He was kennel caged at night (small kennel, just enough for him to move around and sleep. I would stuff the shirt I wore that day in there and then let him out in the morning. As far as I remember, he never peed in the kennel. He was really good and slept through the night.
Once I stopped that and let him sleep with me, he was still not fully potty trained. When I left the house, I would keep him fenced in the kitchen with a pad. If he peed on the pad, I would move it outside, and then take him out to the pad so that he would pee on it outside and try to teach him that way.
In the house though, sometimes he would just walk over and take a piss right on my bed. It wasn't so bad though because his pee was like the size of a 50 cent piece and most times was so light it didn't even penetrate the sheet to the mattress.
All of that being said, he eventually just stopped going in the house with on his own at about a year. I never had a dog take that long.
I had dogs that were potty trained withing 2 weeks of bringing them home - and then there was Cesar. Look around on this forum - it's very common. Many Yorkies are extremely difficult to house break. |