[TishaMoon]

Bailey will be 12 weeks old on Friday. She has been doing SO well with pad training. Last night she even went all night with no potty breaks. In the day I keep her contained in the kitchen with gates, and when she's recently gone I let her into the living room to run around and play. She LOVES living room play time. However, in the last 4 days or so she's had several accidents in the living room on the carpet, including 2 today alone!

What I'm starting to worry about is that pad training is just teaching her that going on soft, fabric surfaces is okay. Eventually I want her outdoor trained. When I first brought her home I started taking her outside but she would never go outside. She would just stand there or start putting rocks and things in her mouth so I'd give up. Then my vet made it sound like even just taking her in my backyard before she's vaccinated is dangerous. So I decided to stick to pad training until 16 weeks, then try to switch to outside.

So I have several worries. Should I start training her outside right away? Is it safe? She will need to be able to use pads too because when I work I'm gone 8 hours. I have 4 weeks off work, which would be a great time to be getting her outside trained if it's okay. But I just get too nervous since she puts everything in her mouth! I'm afraid that when I go back to work and she turns 16 weeks it'll be so hard to switch things on her.

Oh, and one little side note. She has also started eating her poop. I've started feeding her pineapple hoping it'll get rid of this, but going outside would help with that too.