Hi! So like the title says I have a 4 month old Yorkie puppy, Dolly. She is crate trained at night and while I’m not home and will not poo or pee in her crate. She goes outside to go potty, and I take her out on a regular schedule (first thing in the morning, after meals, and right before bed, as well as a couple times in the afternoon, so I aim for every 3 hours or so). At some times I think she’s doing really well, and we will have a couple days without accidents. But she’s also having accidents at certain times, lots of times right after she has just gone potty outside. Initially the accidents were in front of the doors, so I thought maybe she just doesn’t know how to ask. I got a bell for the door and help her to ring it every time we go out, but so far she hasn’t caught on. She’s started going in places besides in front of the door so now I have no idea and feel like I’m failing and that we’ve made no progress. The Yorkie subreddit didn’t help because the general consensus there is that yorkies just don’t potty train, but I refuse to believe that.
I praise her when she goes outside (she won’t take treats) and often times keep her tethered to me indoors since she is very sneaky and doesn’t do any obvious signs before she goes. Other than this is there anything I’m missing?? I know 4 months is still very young, is there an age at which I can expect it to “click”?
I try to avoid using potty pads but I do have one in front of the door just in case. She hits it maybe 70% of the time so I don’t think she’s really figured that out yet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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