Okay, I have just moved back into my parents with my 7and a half week old miniature dachshund girl - Molly. Also living here are my younger brother (16), 3 dogs and another puppy. The three eldest dogs are fine and don't really need much training (we are working on reinforcing a few things with them) but Molly's training doesn't seem to be going very well. I'd also like to work on some training with my Mum's 17week old Teacup Yorkie - Maddie.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Molly - I've had her for 1 week at my old house and we were doing great with training - she had reliably learned "sit" "paw" and "come" as probably only had about 5 housetraining accidents through the whole week. We have only been here 3 days and already she seems to have completely forgotten "come" and will only "sit" and "paw" if the other dogs aren't in the same room as she gets really distracted. It now takes a few attempts at getting her to sit/paw. Should I go back to pushing bum to ground as I say sit, giving treat and saying good girl and reinforce this for another few days and then start to work on paw again. Should I give her the treat of she sits/ gives a paw before I give the command as she sometimes gets excited and does this as soon as she sees the treat? How can I teach recall when she completely ignores me even if I wave a treat or toy at her?

Housetraining is now awful with her seemingly not needing to go when I take her out to the garden (every 1hour or so for 5-10mins) and then using the carpet about 10 mins after we come back in. It is pretty rainy and windy here in Scotland and she just runs to the back door to get back in even if I try to distract her with a treat or toy.

She is also getting pretty aggresive like when I pick her up (gently) to take her to pee she snaps and growls at me! Also sometimes when I pick her up at night to take her upstairs/downstairs in morning.

She also doesn’t sleep through the night, I have a dog bed with a ticking clock and hot water bottle wrapped up in it next to my bed. I can settle her in this about 10.30pm and she will sleep until 1am and then cry and scream until I lift her into my bed. I try to ignore her but she has woken my brother before. I can understand her anxiety as the breeder only let the Mum in once or twice a day from 4 weeks and half her littermates were sold by 5 weeks. I picked her up the day she turned 6 weeks and she has been playing with my Mum’s little yorkie puppy (17 weeks old) like she is a litter mate. The only time they are separated is at night when Maddie sleeps in my parents room.

Maddie - Maddie is a teacup yorkie 17 weeks old and my mum has had her since she was 11weeks. She is very very very hyper active and loves to run about and make a high pitched yappy noise. When she gets too noisy we give her a quick squirt with a little water pistle and she calms down for a bit. Molly and Maddie play great but Maddie can be very tiring wanting to play 24/7 and Molly can get aggressive with her. Maddie reliably knows "come" and we are working on "sit". She doesn't walk very well on the lead. I need a bit of advice on how to calm her down a bit! She sleeps next to my Mums bed when she wants to and then in bed with my Mum when she’s having a whining night.

We also have Flynn (Huge springer spaniel/pointer cross 2yr old), Amber (cocker spaniel 2yr6months old) and Gizmo (Shih Tzu 3 year old). These are all fairly well lead trained, know basic commands and have a mostly reliable recall.

Thanks folks