i think hard to housebreak is a terrier thing! I have had several and they were all hard to housebreak. Our blue heeler and austrailian shepherd just housebroke theirselves. They just seemed to naturally want to go outside. Ruby acts like she is too afraid to have me out of her sight to go do her business so when I let her out i have to stand there on the porch the whole time while she watches me like a hawk to make sure i dont leave her. She is ok if I dont leave her out of her crate at night or when we arent home. She never soils her crate. or the car. When I go riding on cool days she comes along and sleeps in the truck the whole time and has never had an accident in there.
The best housebroken terrier I had was my westie Pearl. I went on a long car trip across country with her when she was new to me, about 4 months old, and the car was so full of junk she had to sit in a tiny little space and I would stop often to let her go. By the end of the trip she was perfectly housebroken, so I learned from that the crate method is best since its about the same principal. but ruby would rather have an accident by the front door than wake me up and take a chance she might run outside and be swallowed up into the twilite zone and never see me again. Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
