{we started taking him outside for potty times since then. He immediately starting peeing outside, no problems..yes we still have the occasional accident but overall hes been doing great! We praise him verbally and he loves going outside! He even goes to the door to go out sometimes (a work in progress).
Our issue is that he has yet to poop outside! He will go on a nice walk, go pee, try to eat the leaves, grass,lay down, etc...but then come in and poop on the carpet or the pee pad (Ive wised up after the first few times so started putting him in the gated kitchen with his pee pad right when we come inside)....}
This sounds just like my little Dante

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He does geat with peeing outside and does all that other stuff (try to eat the leaves, grass,lay down).
I think in time he will start to learn to Potty #2 outside.
Sounds like your doing all the right things.