[mommyof2]

A dog door isn't an option for us. We have a fenced in back yard. Well, it's fenced in, but not yorkie proof yet. But my husband is going out this weekend and making it yorkie proof. But the only way out to the back yard from our house, is french doors. I don't know much about doggie doors, but I think they have to be put in an existing door, right? Can't do that through the glass....

I know I need to be patient...but he's not even using the puppy pads that are down anymore!! He goes everywhere else but there...he doesn't even show me that he has to pee or poop. He doesn't come even close to going to the door. he'll just get up wherever he's at and squat. No sniffing, no dancing, nothing.

question: Do you all think I would be making a big mistake if I went back to trying to train him to go on puppy pads? Would that be a huge step back? I have done some reading and have found a lot of people say that it's nearly impossible to housetrain a dog under six months. That they can't put it together and what it is until then, is them training you. You take them out every hour, so the odds are they will go outside and not in the house. If it's true and I'm spinning my wheels expecting this to happen before six months of age, then I'm thinking I need to at least get him back on the puppy pads to save my house!!
HELP!