We got Millie at 12 wks old and she was not reliably house broken until about 6-7months old. Yorkies are harder to train and take longer. They also require your intense participation in the potty training process. In other words you absolutely must be actively involved in the potty training and that means never keeping your eye off the puppy unless they are confined in a crate or x-pen or tied to you on a leash. They must be on a potty schedule that you keep for them and lead them to the potty area and you must be present during the potty episode. You cannot let them out into the yard for them to go by themselves.
Also they will learn to go potty in the designated area, way before they will learn to tell you they have to go. So until they learn to tell you they have to go and hold it until you let them out, then you cannot let up one bit on the potty training.
It is so much work, fustrating and exhausting, but in the end you have a fully house broken pet and for a "short" period of time (and in the whole scheme of things, it is a short period) you may be inconvenienced, but you will have the rest of it's life to enjoy a happy healthy relationship unmarred by ongoing potty issues. |