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I don't know how much this will help you but our Baby is in an xpen with pee pads down 2 days a week while we are at work. The other 3 days he is at puppy daycare. We are lucky that daycare has trained him to go outside so when I take him outside for a walk or play he goes potty. I have started to reduce the size of the pee pad area in his pen and when the weather breaks I will be really diligent about taking him out when I see him head towards his pad so hopefully he will get it that when we are home he goes out when he is alone use the pad. We do plan on always keeping a pee pad down somewhere in the house as the weather is so bad and the snow so deep he can't go potty outside most of the winter. We also crate at night.