Hello all! I am loving this thread... It is a great encouragement and reminder to STICK IT OUT! It does get better! LOL!
Our first two were trained to go outside and only outside. They were a year old till they were completely trustworthy. And they were(Tobey's gone
)/are COMPLETELY trustworthy! It took TONS of work, time, and anxiety! Now with Josie, our third Yorkie who is 14 wekks old, we are trying Potty Pads. I am thrilled with them. We plan to eventually train her to only go outside. For now, I take her outside (although she doesn't like the grass to tickle her belly!) when I am sure she has to go and use the potty pads to prevent accidents. It is working wonderful. These little Yorkies just can't seem to hold it. When they have to go, they have to go NOW! There is no way I can anticipate when she's gonna decide she's gotta go and our others didn't figure out how to let us know they needed to go outside until they were a year old. We had to constantly watch them, and still they could pee faster than we could scoop them up and take them out when they started doing their little sniff and spin thing. So far, Josie has been doing great with the potty pads. She had a few accidents, but we started giving her a treat every time she ran to the pad and went. Boy! That did it! She'll run over there and pretend to go so she gets a treat! Now I have to check for the wet spot!
What a goof! We took her on a trip with us and she didn't have a single off-pad accident. Our friends were great and let us put the potty pads down... Even on the carpet in the room we stayed in! Not a single accident!
Hope I didn't go on too much! But this is a fun, although perplexing, topic to chat about with other sympathizers!!!!! Enjoy your babies - they will grow up!!!
