Should I begin pee-pad training?
 

Right now we're trying to do strictly outdoor training with our 19 week-old yorkie Cookie. She generally has 1-2 accidents a day in the house and 7-8 pees/poops outside. We take her out every 30 minutes she is up, after any nap, immediately after any meal and then 15 minutes after any meal, but she occasionally has really bad days like yesterday where she went 4 times in the house and refused to pee outside most of the times I took her out in the mid afternoon to early evening hours (very hot right now that time of day).

I can usually get her to go pee/poop outside by taking her to an area outdoors she has previously marked and giving the command "Go Pee", but I'm thinking her problems yesterday might be related to this horrible heat wave the San Antonio area is under now and for the forseeable future.

Do you guys think it would be wise to bring back pee pads but still do the scheduled outdoor trips also? Cookie was trained until 14 weeks on pee pads and the doggy door at her breeder, but we have used neither, because:

(1) We didn't want to confuse her into thinking pottying inside is OK and we have a nice big back yard for her to potty in
(2) The doggy door is completely out of the question since someone a mile away from me had her yorkie puppy stolen, and I'm just not going to take that chance of her being outside without an adult present.

She doesn't pee on furniture, doesn't poop inside, doesn't go to the bathroom in her crate, but sometimes she sneaks in a pee on the kitchen tile or even worse the living room floor between our schedule, and other times just flat out doesn't want to pee outside.

Ideas?

So I was thinking it might make sense to bring back the pee pad and slowly ween it away from her as she gets nearer to adulthood?

put it right near the door. maybe she will slowly work her way outside.

Well, 3 days in and she hasn't gone on the pee pad once. But she has also only gone inside the house once, and that was my fault because I had to leave the room for 5 minutes to go to the bathroom. So I put some of her urine from outside on the pee pad to try to entice her to use it, but instead it has enticed her to try to lay down on it and drag it around like her little stinky blanket lol.

It was funny though... the first time I after I put it out and she started sniffing the carpet, I carried her to the pee pad and gave the command "Go Pee". So she walked over to the back door and just looked at me. Of course I gave her huge praise, took her out, and she peed within about 20 seconds of hitting the ground. So I guess she knows she isn't supposed to pee inside now? Maybe this will help so that the only accidents she has are of the "just can't hold it in" variety.

Cookie still thinks the pee pad is a blanket lol. Am I going to have to put the peepad outside to train her to use it lol? (would love to have her peepad trained too for trips and bad weather).