You may want to ask your vet about medical boarding the puppy for the day for about 2 weeks So that way someone is always watching the puppy. there are so may things that can happen with a puppy that young. I hope you do have a vet, just ask them for advise on food and water.
If you do keep it in the bathroom buy a baby gate, do not close the door on a new puppy and keep the radio or TV on, so it does not feel alone.
good luck.
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I also wanted to let you know that potty problems will be the least of your worries, bringing home a yorkie puppy at this age. Other , more serioius issues are at stake . Do what you can to make sure your puppy can stay longer with her momma and littermates. The reccomended time for a little yorkie baby is 12 weeks old. And that is for the health and benifit of the puppies.
Even at 12 weeks old, you will still have a little baby puppy that is going to be very needy and cry for attention all the time for you.

Here's the other thread that she started - and the advice she was given.

http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/tra...-training.html

potty training
 

after your boo is old enough to start training here's how I did it....
1. realize that when you have a little Yorkie-- mine is almost 5lbs and pretty much full grown-- you have to understand that their bladders are tiny tiny tiny, accidents will happen.
2. only use one pee pad, having more is confusing
3. the first time he/she pees on the carpet, soak it up and squeeze it out on the pad (gross i know but I didn't have the heart for crate training)
4. be consistent put the pee on the pad until he/she learns to put it there themselves.
5 don't get upset, they don't speak english, mistakes are ok.
I do agree with everyone and hope you took the time before bringing the pup home.
teaching the dog @ 6 weeks will be really hard, so be sweet bc you don't want the puppy to associate your frustration with who you are.

If you are not prepared to be a full time mommy 24/7 or very close to it, then please do not take this baby home. It is so unfair and unsafe for him, and could easily end in his death.

I sure hope you will slow down a bit and wait until you are better prepared to care for a pup. Help this little guy find the proper care at this critical time of his life; someone who can spend their whole day attending to his needs, feeding, pottying, socializing, etc. .... he deserves this.

You have received a bunch of great advice here. I hope that you use it to make your decision. It would be sad to have this puppy not make it. It is a full time 27/7 job to keep this puppy alive. I don't have advice on how you can do that when you are gone 9 hours a day.

Im sorry, but I agree with the others on this. I aquired Tucker when he was 7 weeks old, (breeder pretty much dropped him off at my house after his vet check) and he was a "bigger" pup at 2.5 pounds. There was no way I could of left him at that age for 9 hours at a time, honestly I feel very strongly about leaving any kind of pup under 6 months old alone for that long. He needed constant super vision and feedings. HE would throw up if I was only a few minutes late getting him his food, I was petrified of him having a hypogylecmic episode. It only takes a small pup a little while to die from this and if you are at work and your pup is having an attack you would come home to a dead dog, sorry to be blunt but its true. If you are adamant about getting this puppy then you NEED to make arrangements to check on it through out the day or have someone else do it. Pee pad training for now should the least of your worries.
I also wouldnt expect a puppy that young to "catch on" to using a pee pad for a few weeks. Keep the pup in a xpen with its pads while your at work and take the pup to the pads every so often when your home. He/she will catch on but it will be a few weeks if not months before it is comp. trained. My dog was 7 months before he was completely outside trained, Im home all day and took him out every hour during the day. Yorkies are known to be hard to house train.
Good luck and please reconsider taking this pup so young..

look into petsmart (i like petsmart a lot) you can get training there, vet care, grooming all in one-- the vet will also happily keep your dog all day in a nice clean safe warm place plus you get a vet as a babysitter with their drop off and pet daycare just a thought

I student teach now so I drop off Castor Pollux at daycare at 7:30 and pick him back up at 4.

The couple days that I woke up late and didn't have time to drop him off, he whined like crazy and was destructive during the day and he is almost 9 months now... I wouldn't leave a baby baby that young home alone simply becasue he is a yorkie.
He WILL get into everything, forget to eat, forget to drink water because they are soooo busy. my yorkie at 3 months had a desire to climb everything and get scared to jump off. If i wasn't there to monitor his silly climbing and get him down everytime, he may have broken something... something serious like his neck.

No way should a 6 week old puppy be in pet daycare and exposed to all those deadly viruses! This puppy won't even be able to start his vaccinations for another couple weeks and those early vaccinations are only about 25% effective.

I doubt Petsmart would accept a puppy that young anyway since it is illegal to sell one at six weeks in Florida.

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: My thoughts exactly. Puppies should not have any exposure to all that until all vaccinations are complete, which is around 16 weeks isn't it?

The last round of vaccinations should be around 18 weeks then wait an additional two weeks for full immunity:

In one study of a cross section of different puppies the age at which they were able to respond to a vaccine and develop protection covered a wide period of time. At six weeks of age, 25% of the puppies could be immunized. At 9 weeks of age, 40% of the puppies were able to respond to the vaccine. The number increased to 60% by 16 weeks, and by 18 weeks of age, 95% of the puppies could be immunized.

Parvovirus: Serious Diarrhea in Puppies & Dogs

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AS alot of you know i got kisses about 9 days ago ,i love him to death and would'nt trade him for nothing.He to was very young and tiny only 1 lb ,Now all that being said ,this has been very hard for kisses and me .HE has to be feed 4 times a day took to potty every 2 hrs. ,don't get me wrong it's getting better ,BUT would i ever get another puppy that young..NO..My thing is who is gonna feed and care for it those nine hours,because they can't eat good they can't do ANY thing good at that age ,PLEASE DON'T GET IT .it can't stay by it's self at that age

Please don't take this baby home that young:( Bringing home a 12 week old takes plenty of work and attention as it is. Would you bring a very premature human baby home, no , you wouldn't be able to meet its needs...its the same thing here. Please put the puppy best interest at heart first. Shame on that breeder too:mad:

This is a sad situation.....for both parties! I got Lucky when he was almost 12 wks old and I have researched and read everything a year before, to prepare myself for my Yorkie. Needless to say actually having him and knowing that I was responsible for this little life scared me to death! Raising three children was easy compared to Lucky....lol and thankfully my furbaby was and still a healthy little boy! I have had dogs before Lucky but Yorkies... they are truly a different adventure!
But let me say this.....all the rearch and reading didn't come close to the advice I have read here from the very experienced owners!
To make this short....when these yorkie lovers advise you on something you can betcha they know what they are talking about!!!!
I wish you and your little one a super sucessful outcome.

Please take everyones advice. I got Missy when she was 7 weeks and 3 days old (weighed 1 lb). If I would have left her at home for 9 hrs alone, she would be dead. She was constantly having hypoglycemic attacks and needed nutrical regularly (up until she was 10 weeks old). I had to be with her to make sure that she was eating often enough and at first I had to hand feed her. I have owned dogs my entire life, so I do have experience. It was very scarey and stressful that first 2 weeks of her being home. If you can not be with this puppy EVERY moment of the day and night, you shouldn't even consider bringing it home.