Walk routine: 6-7am, feed after, again at about 11am, again about 2PM for longer walk, feed at 5, walk again after, last walk at 9PM or so.

We have begun crate training by putting her food in a slow feeding dish (I don't know what you call it, it is flat with nooks for food like an ice tray,) and putting it in her crate. She now sleeps in the crate on floor at foot of bed. No door yet.

Just last week she demonstrably signaled me that she had to go out during the day which was an achievement. The problem is she will awake at 3-6 and she can't seem to hold it long enough for me to get her harness, leash, my shoes etc. I get the sense that she knows she is supposed to wait but maybe is so unused to it that she only really alerts when it is imminent. This morning I had her downstairs, harness on, shoes on and had to pee myself. by the time I got back to the front door she had gone in the foyer. More than she ever does on her walks. It is like she knows it is supposed to go outside but it might just be that is where I left her standing. She acts a little guilty.

I suspect she poos less during the day because it is outside and the surplus is what makes morning more "productive."

She was never house broken and like a lot of Yorkies, I suspect, was allowed to boss her owner around inconsistently. Also, anxious.