[DBlain]

even if I had a fenced yard I would never train Lola to just run loose to do her potty, besides the hawks you never know what a yorkie might get into or eat if left alone to roam a large back yard. Lola only goes out to potty via a leash this way she goes where I want her to go and I know just when she went and what she did and she does it in a hurry. If you open a door and let the dog out and come back an hour later you have no idea if they went potty, what the did, what them may have eaten, chewed on an so forth. Then when you are in a hurry they might just go out to play. My sister's yorkie is free to roam the yard and I swear it has more stomach problems and accidents in the house because half the time my sister lets her out she just sniffs things or tries to hunt birds or squirrels. She also has a pool and a pond and twice she found the dog fell in the pool and once it was at night, you said you will let them out in the pool enclosure, not sure if you keep the water in your pool covered all the time, but have you thought about how your yorkie or any of you dogs will get out if they fell in the pool. Most yorkies hate water but some do not, Lola loves getting in the water so I would never leaver her outside in the area of a pool on her own.