Curly will be 12 wks tomorrow. Right now he is 95% puppy pad trained and about 75% of the time he does #2 outside but I'm not 100% sure if he knows yet that is an acceptable place to go.
I'm trying to ween him off the puppy pads though and only go outside. So I've kept a schedule of taking him out every two hours from 6AM - 10 PM (last feeding at 5 PM)
My husband today noticed that I was taking him out very two hours and told me that he thinks it's a bit excessive. However I replied that every time I do take Curly out he does #1 each time and #2 every other time. I think ideally I need to take him out every 30 mins so he doesn't #1 on the pads but it's a lot of work to take him out (he can't go down stairs yet so i need to carry 20 lbs down two flights of stairs, we have a lot of stairs)
Am I going overboard with taking him out every two hours? With the other two dogs we have housebreaking was easy because we had a yard and confined them to the first floor so we just let them out every hour. Now the older ones are on a 4 walks a day schedule and both are completely housebroken.
Wherever my husband PCS next I'm going to push for a yard.
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I'm trying to ween him off the puppy pads though and only go outside. So I've kept a schedule of taking him out every two hours from 6AM - 10 PM (last feeding at 5 PM)
My husband today noticed that I was taking him out very two hours and told me that he thinks it's a bit excessive. However I replied that every time I do take Curly out he does #1 each time and #2 every other time. I think ideally I need to take him out every 30 mins so he doesn't #1 on the pads but it's a lot of work to take him out (he can't go down stairs yet so i need to carry 20 lbs down two flights of stairs, we have a lot of stairs)
Am I going overboard with taking him out every two hours? With the other two dogs we have housebreaking was easy because we had a yard and confined them to the first floor so we just let them out every hour. Now the older ones are on a 4 walks a day schedule and both are completely housebroken.
Wherever my husband PCS next I'm going to push for a yard.
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