My neighbors probably thought I was crazy, too. Especially when I was doing my happy dance and screaming, "Yahoo!":D

My 5 month old yorkie did the exact same thing..My husband put a little chain outside..we take him out, put him on the chain and leave him out there until he starts barking, which means he is done and ready to come back in..This really works and you dont have to stand there the whole time waiting for them to go...Its cold out, so it will not take them long at all.. Take him/her out every hour to begin with, or after napping/eating. Consistency is the key..Award them when they have used the bathroom with treats..When u take them out, tell them-Time to go potty. or go outside..This really worked for us..Good luck:)

My 4 months old is doing the same! Most of the time he'll potty on the papers, sometimes, he'll do it anywhere he wants. I've tried taking him out a few times but he's too busy sniffing around. :(

I had soo many potty troubles...and he finally got it and now I am bell training him and that has taken forever but he is getting that too and he is a year old. My biggest problem was even though he was almost fully potty trained at home, at other people's homes he would pee around (even poo once or twice) super embarrising...so recently I got him a belly band for peeing because I dont think he would poo anymore (he won't do it on his papers anymore either). And it is wonderful. If he was to pee, he would do it in the pad in his belly band...but I have found that with it on...he won't even pee...he just runs to his bell (I take it to other peoples houses). At home we dont use it...but maybe you should get that for home since your guy is so young...or diapers...if I was to do it again I would have started that immedietley!as well as bell training! Try these things out...at least you wont have accidents on the floor and then he wont smell it and try again.

We never had good luck with the potty pads. Duke would grab them and run all over the house. I didn't want to train and retrain so we started with outside right from the start. We use "go potty" He is now 7 months and I would have to say 99% trained. We still have the occasional poopy accident. I'm thinking of trying the bell since he hasn't figured out how to tell us when he needs to go out. We still ask him about every 1-2 hours.

I did get lucky though when he was little he slept all night in our bed so he rarely got up during the night.

Good luck with the training. It takes a LOT of patience but you will get there.:D

similar issue!
 

My enzo will pee on the pad in my bedroom, but when he is playing in the hall he just pees and stares at me. I cannot train him to go outside yet because there is to much snow and he is only 2.8 pounds and he hasn't got all his shots yet because he is almost 3 months. When he does wrong and i say no and show him where he is supposed to go, he just sits there and stares at me like i'm the crazy one.

All of these stories are EXACTLY like mine!!! She does have her moments when she will go and we praise her until we are blue in the face... then other times she will be playing (not sure if its laziness) but she will just stop playing and pee then continure to play. She definitely knows when she has done wrong though... she will look up at us and we will say "Zoey, what did you do???" and she will run and hide under the couch because she knows we can not get her... or as soon as we say "bad girl" she will do the same thing. They seriously are SOO smart and they do know when they do wrong, one day she will get it!! She will have her last set of shots next week... so as soon as she is done with those, outside she will go for Potty time!!! I figure, she is 3 months old.. I have already taught her how to sit and to shake... shes no dummy!! So why cant she understand the concept of a potty pad?? hmm... at this point, anything blue and white is fair game to her!! haha. We wont take her to any of our friends houses either because we know there will be an accident, and like someone said, very embarassing! I just keep telling myself she is a puppy and the more consistent we are with her, the better she will get!! :)