Our 15week pomeranian has heart murmur. We did not find this out until our first visit to a vet. (Of course she came with a health certificate as we purchased her at 10 weeks old) Any way we have fall in love with her too much by the time we found out about her heart problem and decided to keep her for as long as she lives. But we are having hard time to train her for housebreaking. Our vet told us that her heart would not be able to bear the outside temperature as winter gets here. So we have started training her inside. We have pee pads laying on 2 spots in the house, one in the tiled kitchen floor and the other one at the back door. We tried some artificial pee scent drop on those pee pads, too. But it did not work. We clean her accident sites each time when they happen with a portable steam vacuum cleaner. She doesn't go on same spots, but all over the house! We pick her up if we catch her sign of going and bring her on a pad. But, then she stops. It seems like that she tries to avoid to go on the pads. We have tried to sit with her on a pad for a long time to wait until she goes and make her understand that that's the spot she may go. BUT NOTHING HAS WORKED!! Please help! We love her so much.

Do you know what sort of conditions she was raised under? If she was in an area which was all the same (like a shed, or one room) and allowed to do her business there, then it may be she doesn't realise she has to find somewhere 'different'. At 15 weeks she's still very much a baby, and toy breeds are notorious for taking longer to housetrain, so keep at it....... Make sure you put her on the pads whenever she wakes up, when she's had a meal, had a playtime, or had something exciting happen (like visitors) and praise her when she does perform (but be wary of praising too much ;-) Some sensetive puppies can find that off putting and not the reward you might think.......) If she has an 'accident' cleaning with a hot biological washing powder solution is often best, followed by a wipe over with white or surgical spirit, as this helps to break down the fatty acids that carry the scent which encourages the dog to go in the same place.