How old was your puppy when finally potty trained?

[111lily222]

Louie was 95% potty trained at 6 months....full potty trained at 7 months. He will be 2 march 6, and he has never had a accident. I always went out with him and told him go potty, always gets a treat for potty. Now if we have to leave very quickly we will tell him go potty, and he will on command, before we leave.

[DBlain]

Originally Posted by Taryn0405

Gizmo is pretty good. He'll ring the bell to go out to go potty. But we're still working on when going to someone's house. So, when he's visiting Grandma's the belly band goes on.
At first he was really good with no accidents, but we always had him out on the hour every hour. As it got closer to our wedding my DH and I started to get slip shot and we got accidents. So, I know it's hard to keep an eye on them 24/7 but, sometimes in the beginning it's necessary.

Taryn have you tried bringing the bell with you when you go to other places, that's works for us, not sure what type of bell you use I know some are expensive. I bought a big bag of jingle bells at a Meijer's or a craft store and threaded a bunch to form a clump at the bottom of a ribbon which I tie on the door. This way I made several and it hardly cost anything.

I hate to say it but from past experience and from what others with small dogs say, often they are never 100% housebroken. It takes a lot more work to HB a small dog, and often it is more about their temperament than their bladders. So to the OP 6 months for a yorkie is not unusual, keep the faith you will get there,

[MikaTallulah]

Originally Posted by Carla748

Timmy will be 6 months on Sunday. I've had him for 6 weeks. He can hold his bladder for quite a while. He knows how to use the doggie door when he wants to go outside.

When I am gone I keep him in the kitchen where the doggie door is. When I'm home I take him out to go potty every few hours which sometimes he does and I give him lots of praise. He sleeps in his crate at night and does not wet in it.


But he's still having accidents about twice a day. Is he old enough to be fully potty trained?

You have only had him 6 weeks that is no where near long enough to be housebroken especially sine he is only 6 months old. There are countless people who have yorkies at +3 who are not housebroken.

That said most dogs are reliable at 1 year old but I would say small breed dogs overall are not reliably housebroken til 2. I had 3 of mine since birth and I did not trust them at all until they were over a year old each. I got Cozy at 4 months and did not fully trust her til she was 18 months. Mine had very few accidents in the house because I watched them like a hawk.

I also never used pee pads. Rain, snow, etc. outside to potty we go.

Good luck with your New Baby

[Taryn0405]

Originally Posted by DBlain

Taryn have you tried bringing the bell with you when you go to other places, that's works for us, not sure what type of bell you use I know some are expensive. I bought a big bag of jingle bells at a Meijer's or a craft store and threaded a bunch to form a clump at the bottom of a ribbon which I tie on the door. This way I made several and it hardly cost anything.

I hate to say it but from past experience and from what others with small dogs say, often they are never 100% housebroken. It takes a lot more work to HB a small dog, and often it is more about their temperament than their bladders. So to the OP 6 months for a yorkie is not unusual, keep the faith you will get there,

It's funny that you say this becasue we just started bringing the bell with us (light bulb finally went on) and he seems to be doing better.

[southernbelle04]

Katie Scarlett is a little over 6 months. Before her spay surgery, I would of said she was 99% of the way there. She hadn't had an accident in weeks. I was for sure he had it almost all the way down. Since her spay on Monday, it's been almost all accidents. But I did notice this morning that she is going to the pad so far today. She has peed there twice and poopied there once. So maybe she is getting the hang of things again. I put a diaper on her last night and I think she hated it so much she made the connection that if she pees on carpet, it's a diaper. These little guys are so smart! I was hoping with her she would have it down pat at least by a year old like I had read so many. She is pad trained. She will pee outside if we are on walks, but she goes inside the majority of the time.

[KendraE]

Id say Bevo took a good year and a half...Mack Brown learned from him and had it down flat by 4 or 5 months old (of course he grew up in our home)...Bryleigh (the only girl) is now 7 months old and also learned from Bevo and Mack...rarely ever has an accident...then theres Jaxon...Ummm, yeah....hes just a baby...we have a LONG ways to go!! lol...We also use Potty pads!

[jeane]

Morgan is 9 months old and he will bark at me when he needs to go but he also goes on the puppy pads in the house/ this week we got 18 inches of snow and 10 below zero so i did not make him go out

[Donnainohio63]

Scooter and Thor are 100 % trained, Sadie and Little Bit still have accidents. They are pad trained in the house and go outside to. Molly on the other hand has no clue what I am trying to teach her as she is blind so it makes it very hard but we are not giving up. Scooter will be two in July, Thor will be one in March and Sadie will be two in April and Little Bit the same as Thor. Molly is 5 but she is a puppy mill rescue so that explains it all.

[LaviniaHyacynth]

I got Bear at 12 weeks and he came from the breeder's almost completely peepeepad trained. He has had 2 accidents since and both were my fault because he was accidentally separated from his pads. I was so lucky as this has never happened with any other dog i have owned. I kept him in an xpen when he was a baby and gradually increased his free space. By 6 months he was safe to roam the house. This Christmas at my brother's house, he only needed to see the pads one time and he went the entire 5 days without an accident. He was a breeze to train.

[SophieandZiggy]

I got my Bear at 4 months old and he was completely potty trained. He only goes outside