Please be more specific about your methods.
Are you expecting her to go to the peepad on her own when she has the urge to go potty? Because if you are, you will need to rethink this as she has not developed a full understanding of what your expectations are. At this age, you should be taking her to go potty to the peepad each and everytime. She is still to young to remember or to know when she has to go, before it's too late, so she will just stop in her tracks, look for a spot and go. You will put her on a schedule and keep to that schedule. You are going to be more trained then she is for a while. And it may take months of being consistent on your schedule, before she gets the hang of it.
You should not allow her free range of your home. Keep her in only one room (and you should be in the room if she is out of her crate or off the lead). Only when she is full trained not to go in that room, can you introduce her to other rooms of the house.
I would NOT recommend having more than one designated potty area. If you place numerous peepads all over the house, you are going to have a dog that thinks it's ok to go potty all over the house. They cannot distinguish between a peepad and a rug or a piece of paper laying on the floor. But if you designate only one area of your home as the "potty area", then they will come to learn this is the only room they can potty in. That's why it's important to partition off the potty area and make it a discernable area.
To fully house break a yorkie, it will take 100% of your time and focus. And it will take 100% of your time and focus for several months, so be prepared to be exhausted. But the rewards are great when the time comes that she can be left safely anywhere in the house, alone, and you won't have to worry about picking up or cleaning up potty. |