I agree that every dog is different. I had a terrible time with Princess, my fault mostly. She never gave any indication of having to go. She would sniff for like one second then squat. This would happen right in front of me & I truly felt helpless for a while.

We tried outdoors for a while & she would get in my face and stare at me so I'd take her out. But she still went inside, too, so I tried pee pads.

Now, at 18 months, she's had maybe 1 1/2 months with no pee accidents & she still misses the pad in the bathroom for the other, but it's always in there so I'm pretty happy overall. I know exactly how you feel though, it is stressful. It's easy to read a book, it looks so easy, but in the end you just have to know your baby-and in time you will.:)

Mine are trained to pads...two of my adults are perfect, two slip up once in awhile...but I have stone flooring...used to have carpets and my life was miserable.

My babies are trained to go on the patch. When we are at someone else's place, we bring a patch and they know the pee/poo there when we tell them to go potty. Carmel is 100% potty trained, can't remember when he last had an accident! Emma, on the other hand, is 97% trained. She has her occasional accidents, but she's getting there. It took 6 months to completely train Carmel and 1 year for Emma. I guess you could say boys are smarter than girls! :p

Don't feel like a failure!! You'll get there, it just takes a lot of patience and consistency. Once trained, they are the perfect dogs!! ;)

I would say Levi is totally outdoor potty-trained, but we are very diligent about taking him out on a schedule. He holds it from about 10:30-11PM - 6:30 AM overnight (8 hours), and during the day he usually goes out every 4 hours. He indicates when he needs to go out by sitting by the door and whining.

I hate the pee pads too, but I do leave one down at all times. He'll use it in case of emergency if he is home alone.

We pee pad train too and as long as you pick up the soiled pad and put down a clean one, you don't have a smell. Any accidents on tile are cleaned with bleach, any accidents on carpet are cleaned with an enzyme cleaner to break down the urine so they don't go back to the same spot.

Please keep saying "it CAN be done, it CAN be done!" I recently took my granddaughter's four-year-old Yorkie and she was not potty trained. We are making good progress, but I am very vigilant. Patience and persistence are the watchwords with potty training. I live alone and do not want to be outdoors in bad weather or late at night, so it's potty pad training for me. I have potty trained a lot of dogs, but never one her age. I certainly believe it can be done, but also know it will take some time, which I am willing to invest in her. She's a sweetheart and worth the effort. We WILL get there!

Jeanette

I have a 4 month old Yorkie and he has been learning really fast with the belly band. He wears it in the house, and so after a while he realizes outside is for potty.

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He sometimes goes pee in it, but I think it makes him uncomfortable so he would rather wait to go outside. It doesn't solve the pooping problem, but I think overall you're going to housebreak him quicker with this and have no pee smells in the house that will encourage him to go inside. I'm pretty happy with it so far. And 4 months, he likes to go outside to do his business.

Hope this helps! :):aimeeyork

Well, I've had Teddy for more than a month now and he's still not potty trained. And he never does his business outside!!!

It took Carmel 6 months and Emma 1 year to become potty trained. It's only been a month, you still have a long way to go. Just be consistent and patient.

When we brought Dori home at 3 months, I cleared my schedule of all obligations. For two weeks, she never left my side and I did not allow her to have an accident. We went outside to a designated area where she did her thing on a regular schedule.

Then she started wearing a harness and a leash. Again, she never left my side. She was tethered to me, we were walking outside, playing, or she was in her crate (where she also slept at night). When she awoke after 7 hours or so, her feet did not touch the ground until she was outside.

Lastly, I taught her to ring her poochie bells to signal a need to go outside.
She has been fully trained for 6 months (currently 16 months old).
I set her up for success and committed to the process. It took about 7 months to become reliable. She even suffered a bout of Giardia without an inside accident.
So, patience, committment, consistency equal success for you both!

Rizzo is trained to potty pads because I decided shortly after getting him that I could not expect him to hold his itty bitty bladder longer than I can hold mine. I hate "pet smell" i.e. urine, poo and I keep my house pretty gosh darn clean. I pick up the pad after 2 uses, and I wipe the floor underneath it with a Lysol wipe (I don't currently have a pad holder)
Rizzo learned after a couple months that if he needs to relieve himself he goes to the pad, or runs over to the door if I'm at home. I think he picked up on this on his own over time, as he doesn't poo indoors at all. His preference is to go outside, but in a pinch he'll use his pad set up at the door and I always call him a good little boy when he does use it or goes potty outside.
No need to get down on yourself about your little cutie having accidents. It took until Rizz was about 8 months before he stopped having accidents in my house, the bf's I had to start placing a potty pad down because he wasn't "getting it".
It is nice having potty pads, they understand having the same place to go wherever they go. Plus during the spring/winter seasons when they are picky about going out when it's raining or snowing, the pads are convenient alternatives.
Oh, and Rizzo is currently 1.5 years old :)

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I couldn't agree more with this! But, then again, I did the same thing :D

Unfortunately, if I don't go to work I don't get paid, then little Ozzy would have no food :( so taking a 2 week vacation isn\'t an option for me. Also, I think it\'s important to set up him on the regular schedule as quickly as possible.

It\'s been one week since I posted this thread, and he\'s improved amazingly. Since my first post, he\'s had only one accident in the house. He\'s getting to the point already where he goes and sits at the back door when he needs to go outside. He even tries to squeeze out a couple of pees when we\'re out, hoping to double his treats! We\'ve also figured out his schedule for pooping, which is helping a lot.

I have to say that I was afraid after reading a lot of the comments on this site that Ozzy would be really hard to train, but he\'s not. He is a fast learner!

We had a lot of frustration with our Teddy-Bear. It reminded me of potty training my son actually. Teddy had a a lot of accidents, but with a combo of the crate and potty pads it just clicked eventually. We don\'t use potty pads anymore, just for about the first month or two. You aren\'t doing a bad job, it just takes time. Teddy still has accidents. It seems like the only room he doesn\'t go in is my dining room/computer room/his room. Also, when they\'re very young, they don\'t realize they can "hold it." As they get a little bigger they start to realize that "holding it" is an option. Just take him out every hour or less while he\'s small, he\'ll start to associate going outside with going potty.