Yorkshire Terrier Training

Any tips on Potty Training a Yorkshire terrier puppy?
I just got this Yorkshire Terrier, But she is not doing well with potty training. I am trying to house train her with diaper pads and i might try a litter box which is what a lot of Yorkies use. Any tips would be appreciated.

I would suggest crate training which I think is more effective than pads or litter boxes. See the attached link.

http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html
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We had really good luck with the puppy training pads. My husband started out being very consistent in putting our puppy on the pad about 10 minutes after he was fed and/or woke up. We both got to where we could tell by his actions if he needed to go and would pick him up and put him on the pad. It didn't take long before he was using the pad all the time. The only problem we had was when he was about a year old and we got a female. He decided to "hike" his leg on everything in the house but once he was neutered - that stopped immediately.
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Eventually, ALL dogs want to use the bathroom outside. I suggest crate training, personally. If you insist on a litter box, be aware that she WILL rebel against it as she gets older, and you'll need to transition between the litterbox and the outdoors sooner or later. 99% of litterbox trained puppies will begin having 'accidents' again after they are 4-6 months old.
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I recently potty trained a Miniature Pinscher/Chihuahua, so I know what you're going through! I simply took the puppy where they're supposed to go potty every so often (at first it was a very consistant schedule, after naps, a little while after meals, after playtime, or every hour or two) and hide a treat in your pocket and waited for them to go potty. Don't play with them at all during this time, just wait it out. Sometimes they don't have to go and you should wait another 15 or 20 minutes or so and try again. Try to teach your puppy to go potty on command. How you do this is wait until you see your puppy getting ready to go (squatting, etc.) then say go potty puppy, go potty. Then while they are going to the bathroom whisper praise and once they are done get all excited and praise them loudly and pet them and give them treats. Make it a really big deal.

Continue doing this until your puppy can go potty and poop on command and slowly wean them off the treats. If you catch them in the act on the carpet rub the puppy's nose in it and say no over and over again in a deep voice. Then take them outside (or to the litterbox) and tell them to go potty and praise like crazy as if they had done it right the first time. After a bit your puppy will learn it's simply much better and more fun to go potty where they're supposed to go.
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Potty training my own puppy.

I've had the same trouble with my Yorkie…he's been a nightmare! I tried to crate him in a small crate and he just kept on toileting in there then lying in it! I tried the pads and he just wouldn't use them at all. I have house rabbits and they have two trays…he started to wee in them, so I thought I would give him his own litter tray…..he wouldn't use it!!! used to get in it to sleep but still wees in the rabbit try if I'm not looking. It might sound ideal but it's not very good for the rabbits to have a dog urinating on their hay!.

Eventually I had most luck with just putting him outside every hour and making him stay out there until he went to the toilet…sometimes he would just sit there for ten minutes. Strange thing is that he goes all night without doing anything, even cries every morning at 7am until I get up and let him outside to toilet, but during the day he is still having 'accidents' even though he goes on three walks per day and multiple trips to the garden. My advice would be to persevere with toilet trips outside every hour, I think all dogs eventually get the idea that they have to go outside and outside only, but some take longer than others! It took my sisters labrador 18 months!
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