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Originally Posted by Maximo  Yorkies can be difficult to potty train. Good job keeping her roaming room limited when you leave for work.
When you are home, keep the pad in close proximity to wherever she spends her time. Make sure you praise and reward with a small treat when she gets it right.
Outdoors: puppies are often distracted outdoors and do not focus on doing their business. She may also be reluctant to pee and poop outdoors. My Max was that way. I really had to encourage him and praise him when he pottied outdoors.
Hiding to poop: Teddy was shy about pooping when he was a pup.  Try pretending like you aren't hovering and watching too closely. Praise profusely when she does it. Let her know how happy you are, as if she just performed the best trick ever.
If she poops while you are away, that might be one of the reasons she is not peeing on the pad consistently. My pups do not like to go near a pad that has poop on it.
If that is part of the problem, that might be a difficult challenge to overcome until she matures and can regulate her poops for before you leave for work, and for when you return. My pad trained boys naturally fell into a rhythm in which they can do their business morning and evening, and when they know the humans will be there to take care of it right away. |
Thanks for replying - I have tried several options ... I tried the crate for all night but found she could not hold it for much longer than 2 hours so I then got a pet play pen and connected the play pen to her crate so she could get out and potty when she needed. That worked great!, but still found that with our without poop on the pads, she would not always go to the pads. I tried to make the area a bit smaller which helped, but once I let her out (I have a pad or two out in the main area) she will once in a while go to them (I praise profusely) but mostly will squat and pee right where she is. I have picked her up in the middle often and move her to the pads and tell her to "potty" here. I tried the play pen outside so she could roam and do her business but she just barks and whines 99% of the time, she has pooped once or twice and I again praise her .. but then once I move her back into the house she pees or poops on the floor. I have never had a dog that would not do their business outside. 6 weeks of training .. nothing seems to stick except doing it on the floor ..
