Okay we have a little yorkie... he is about 9 months old now. We have had him for awhile and haven't been really pro-active in housebreaking him. We got him to get it a little bit for awhile and then we kind of gave up... now he just goes where ever and doesn't even act guilty... partially our fault. But we are sick of it and need to get him trained in like a month or so because we will soon be moving and temporarily staying with my parents till we find a house in the state we are moving to. They will kill us if he pees or poops on their floors not to mention that we don't want him doing it in our new house once we find and buy one.
We tried puppy pads for awhile... he kind of seemed to get it a bit but he often missed the pad by like a couple inches or went so close to the edge that it went all over the floor anyway. We tried training him to go outside too. My concern with that is that he is just a tiny yorkie and we will be living in MI... I just don't think it will work out well in the winter time when there is two feet of snow on the ground. I don't think he will like it and I don't think it will really be healthy for him to be running around in that either... he only weighs like 4 pounds so he is tiny.
Any advice? And also how do we even go about training him in the first place? I think we have a plan figured out about how to tarp off an area outside if we can get him to go outside while we are in MI so that is not an issue. And I would rather he did his business outside anyway. Any ideas would be great. It has been so long since I potty trained a dog that I honestly don't remember how to go about it.
Thanks guys