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I have had 4 female yorkies gotten at 8 weeks old,(not all 4 at the same time lol) now all have passed.They were fed on a schedule. At 5 months old they were 100% pad trained with NO accidents, at 5 months old they also had had ALL their shots so it was time to house break them, every morning I leash walked them at 7:30AM, even if they had already did their business I walked them anyway, they need to learn at a certain time they will go out, rain, snow, sleet, 7:30AM out we went. I came home from work at 4:15PM, I would lasso them up and at 4:30PM they were leash walked again, even if they had made on the pad, they were walked. At age 7 months old they were 100% house broken. All dogs have built in alarm clocks, they know when they will be eating, they know when they will be walked. At 10PM I took the out to the curb only for their last pee-pee for the night then it was off to bed for us. Feeding time (schedule) and consistency are the KEY WORDS for potty training out doors. At the time I had my puppies I was a renter, no back yard, so leash walking was a MUST. I am now a home owner and can see the pit falls of trying to house break puppies. There MUST be schedules for feeding and outside potty, with NO PLAYING. I now have a adopted boy, I got him when he was 2 1/2 years old, he was semi house broken, leash walked by prev. owner. Now he had a yard, no leash, the first day I took him home I took him out to the yard to do his business, all he did was run like a stallion signing "Born Free" with me giving him command words of pee-pee and poo-poo, not knowing what woods were used for this by prev. owner. When he finally peed I did the happy dance, clapped my hands, praised like crazy, made a BIG fuss and kept calling it pee-pee and pointing to where he just peed, that day after he peed he went running back to the house, now I had also changed his name from THEODORE, to much of a mouthful for me, I changed it to CODY, I only had him a few hours, so I am calling him by his new name and telling him come make poo-poo, back he comes, sniffs and poops, again, happy dance, clapping hands, making big fuss, pointing to his poop and calling it by it's name poo-poo. From that point on he made outdoors. I am lucky, he will whine when he wants to go out.
I would NOT allow playing when it's potty time, when you take him out keep giving him the command words you use to pee and poo, let him know what he's out there for, you may want to use a leash so you can control NO PLAYING. Once you get the no playing concord you can stop using the leash and just use the command words for what he is outside for. My girls were very easy to pad train then house break.