I just ordered the ebooks from this sight due to the constant challenges we have with our girl chihuahua with her potty issues. I have not read them yet since i just got them but this may be helpful for us all... it was only $19.95. http://www.dogpottytrain.com/chihuahua/index1.php?page=housetraining
She has a doggie door and two older big dogs 'brothers' that she has as role models but that doesn't seem to keep her consistent. She gets lazy and pees or poops in the house 'everywhere' when she feels like it. She is going on 3 this summer.
She is such a great dog and we have tried what we fell like...is everything to break her of this. There is no pattern to her doing it other then the times it rains outside. When that happens we put up gates to block her into the tiled areas where the doggie door is so at least its on the tile.
It just seems like she is doing it intentionally, when she is lazy and when it's raining outside. So, hopefully these ebooks will help us with her we love her to death and she is the funniest loving thing ever but the potty thing can really stress us out because it destroys our carpet, pillows, bedding...you name it!
In this picture is our girl Tila with another one of our dogs and her best buddy, Pudge our Dane - Catahoula mix. She loves to cuddle with him and sleep ontop of him and he lets her get away with 'everything' she can walk all over him and he doesnt care. I just wish she was as well trained as he is! Its like she fights it. good luck all! - PB ... View related article.