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How old is your puppy and how long have you had him/her.

1. You need to get your puppy a crate or an x-pen. When you are not home, this is where your puppy should be, that way he/she will not ruin the furniture. If you crate, use no peepads. If you use the x-pen, then put his/her bed and toys and chewies on one side of the x-pen and a few peepads on the other side, so it covers up any open floor area. This way the puppy can only go on the pee pads. At some point in the future, you can remove all but one peepad when he is more aware that the peepad is the only place he can go.

2. If you are going to peepad train him/her, remove all peepads in all rooms except for one. Just because the puppy is going to pee or poo on a pad in the house, does not eliminate the need for YOU to actually train the puppy to learn to do this. you must train the puppy to use a pee pad just as if you were training him to go outside. Therefore, you need to designate the one area in the house that is going to be the acceptable place to go potty and you need to take the puppy there every single time every hour on the hour, before bed time, after sleeping, after playing, after eating and drinking. You should make the area several peepads big, to give the puppy a big area to sniff and get stimulated to go. You can reduce the size of the area, when he grasps the concept and understands the peepad is the only place he is allowed to go. You should have the area blocked off so that he has no where to go but in that area. He does not get out of the area until he goes potty. You must be there the whole entire time, so that the second he goes, you can praise him and treat him immediately. (you may have to be there 15,20,30 minutes or up to an hour, in the begining, repeating the "go potty" command) After a while the period will be shorter because he will soon learn what you want and he will get right down to business. You do need to create an entry way into the peepad area, so when he does catch on, he can come in and out of the potty area at will.

3. If you are going to outside train him then the above applies only instead of a peepad area you have a grass area. If the puppy won't move on leash unless you move, then you need to move and walk around so he can start sniffing the area to start getting stimulated. Once again, you don't leave until his business is done, no matter how long it takes. Bring treats outside with you. As soon as he does his business you praise and treat. If you don't want to put him on a leash, then you are going to have to keep him confined in an area on the grass and he doesn't get to leave the area until he does his business. Then he should be allowed the reward of play. After a while he will get it. It just takes time and patience.

5. When he is not going potty, keep him in one room and one room only. the only room he should be in is the one you are in with him. Never ever, ever take your eyes off him. When you see the signs of him sniffing around and you know it's his potty dance, then you need to take him outside or the peepad area. If you can't keep an eye on him because you have to cook, clean, get ready for work or something like that, then put him in the crate, x-pen area.

With a yorkie you must be an active participant in his training. In fact you will be trained before he is. You have to establish the schedule and keep too it. You must keep your eyes on him at all times, or he should be in the crate/x-pen. This could take months, before you have a really trained puppy. But don't despair. He will catch on eventually. It might not be as quickly as you would like and it will take a lot of work and effort, but it will be worth it in the end.