I think the difficulty with potty training applies to most toy breeds. I personally didn't have an issue potty training mine; however, I do believe it took a little longer to achieve 100% success than with my previous dogs. Thankfully, by the time you get your next dog, your extremely smart lab (I love labs too!) should already be housebroken. IMO, having another dog already housebroken, makes it easier to train a puppy.

It seems that Yorkies are harder to potty train than other dogs. I have a "teapot" yorkie who currently weights 10lb at 14months. She took really well to potty training and I've never used pee pads. Maybe she was easier because she is bigger? I'm not too sure.

The nice thing about yorkie pups compared to labs, is that when they get excited and jump on you they don't bowl you over! haha. I'd go for it, you won't regret it.

I have A 10 month old female and she is trained to use pee pads. Since the yorkie is a toy breed they need to go the bathroom more frequently due to their small size. Since your home all day setting a a potty schedule would help your puppy pick up the training fast. Pee pads are great too. :thumbup:

Bentley is now 7 months and knows exactly what do to when we go outside. He will now wake me up (and very adamentaly I might add) in the very early morning if we did not take a potty break in the middle of the night. I admit though that as I am getting older I also need a potty break in the middle of the night so we are at least on the same schedule :D

However during the day, is a different story. We take him out about every 90 minutes even now and he does normally piddle. Unfortunately if I get wrapped up in something :eyeballpcand lose track of time for a while he will give me minimal signs before he lifts his leg and piddles. He will look right at me like "I tried to warn you but you weren't paying attention". At that moment I yell "no" and he'll stop. Then I take him outside for our normal potty routine while I gringe and reprimand MYSELF for MY mistake! :angry:

Usually while I stand outside and think about what just happened I can very clearly recognize the signs he tried to give me that were ignored. Hindsight... :rolleyes:

I'm one that disagrees, it's never taken me any longer to housebreak a yorkie or a biewer, than any other dog. It's all consistency

I think they are harder to train. But i know they can hold it, cause they hold it in their crates.

They are stubborn, they don't respond to their names either like other dogs do.

Maybe it's because with their small size, the other side of the room is a long way off and no where near their "den".

Maybe it's because they are terriers and just don't give a dam about pleasing you. They work for food only. they get attention because they are so darned cute.

Maybe it's because they are so qixck and so small it is hard to catch them in the act.

I have pee pads behind every piece of furniture.

This is the first dog I've ever trained, but yes, it's been a challenge. Fortunately, yorkies are very bright. If you spend a lot of time at home and are willing to put forth the extra effort, I think the pay off will be well worth it. If you're not the patient type, the first year may be a real struggle for you. Best of luck and welcome to Yorkie Talk. :)

My first Yorkie, male, was very easy to potty train. I got him when he was 9 weeks old and crate trained him. He was completely housebroken within a month. Chipper was also a teapot and he weighed 1lbs. We had him for 13 years and he never had an accident until the last 6 months od his life when we found out he had bladder stones, had surgery and then found he had bladder cancer. Now Piper was very hard to house break. She is small, weighs 5.1 lbs at 8 months. I got her at 10 weeks and tried to train her the same way. I was convinced that she had a bladder infection because she peed every 30 minutes. Took her to the vets and had her urine tested and everything was fine. The vet said that she was very young and these babies have very small immature bladders. He said that it was going to take time and patience but she should be trained by 6-8 months. (I'm thinking are you crazy Chip wasn't like that?) Luckily it was summer and I made a point to bring her out every 30 minutes and she would pee. But you couldn't trust her in the house so she was contained in the kitchen. I use to call her Piddle Piper. When she played she be piddling as she ran. I like to think she is completely housebroken now. We haven't had an accident in weeks but I know if I don't bring her out frequently she probably would. She never asks to go out like Chip use to, but you can tell by her body language when she has to go outside. She is really good at night. She sleeps with me and doesn't want to get out of bed until I'm ready to get up.

OOPS! Chipper weighed 14lbs.