All the professional trainers opt for crate training methods while training yorkie puppy for potty. It means that you will be confining your puppy in the crate whenever you will not be able to watch then for short time periods. But your pup needs to be taken out in each 45 minutes or one hour for potty. So, in each interval of time, you have to take your puppy out of the house at the same place in the yard. And that puppy will try to make their eating and sleeping area clean according to their instinct. So crate training can be the right method to well train your pup for potty.

If you like to play and interact with the dog, your dog will be relieved to be out of the crate. The yorkie puppy will circle round sniffing and search for the spot to potty whenever he has to go. You have to understand the instinct and take him out to their potty place. You can closely monitor your dog in order to know their body languages. You can watch them closely at the time your yorkie wakes up, as soon he finishes his meal, after the sessions before the bed time, and obviously after you take them out of the crate. Never let your puppy run lose when you cannot watch them. Each time they go for the potty at the certain place, they are taught to go for potty at the same place for all the time. This is what called consistency.

Get your dog paper trained for the time when you will be gone for longer time. You can put your dog's crate inside the exercise pen with the door open or either close. Put some newspaper inside the exercise pen with food and water available. Your yorkie will get accustomed with newspaper whenever you are not around. After couple of weeks, reduce the area covered with newspaper. This way, your yorkie pup will be get used to paper potty training and they will make it habit to potty in paper even when there is only a sheet of paper.

The exercise pen in the home is the safe haven for your yorkie pup at the time when you are not home. You can place this exercise pen over the place where you want your dog to do his potty permanently. Now, place the yorkie in the pen and watch him from distance. This process will help to do their business at the right place quicker than when he is leashed or running loose.