Puppy Pad training for two

Question
We had a 14 year old, female dashound, who has never been trained to use a pad (husband's).  I decided I wanted a dog to travel with me as I am on the road every week, so I bought Bo, a little yorkie-maltese mix.  He was four weeks old when I got him and I started immediately with the puppy pads and he did amazingly well to be so young.  When I got home that next week, he used the pads at first, then started going everywhere in the house like the older dog.  I need to know if it is possible to train both now? If so, how in the world do I go about it?

Answer
Dear Tina,

Go directly to http://www.dogdaysusa.com/housetraining.cfm and follow the directions exactly.  Your puppy will be fine by the time he's 5-6 months old; before that you're asking too much of him to just "know".  Do not use punishment in housetraining.  Read it, do it and accept the fact that it's not going to be easy (it never is - it's not your situation that makes this hard, it's just housetraining is hard).  

If you insist on using puppy pads for him to eliminate on (rather than walking him for his elimination needs), then simply substitute the word "puppy pad" for "outside" in my instructions at the site.  Do everything else EXACTLY AS IT IS DESCRIBED, and read the whole thing carefully.  This is how you housetrain a dog.  Leaving it up to the dog to "know" is setting him up for a life in the garage or the basement or fearful because you're always mad at him and he truly doesn't know why.  

Incidentally, it's irresponsible for any breeder to release a dog at the young age of 4 weeks.  The earliest a breeder should sell a dog is 8 weeks.  Get this dog into a positive reinforcement kindergarten class at 10 weeks or so, and socialize him as much as you can to other dogs as well as people and kids.  

Your husband's dog's breed is spelled "Dachshund".

Thank you for your question, and good luck.
Suzanne Harris, BSc, CPDT
http://www.dogdaysUSA.com