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  This won't help with the potty training issue but may help with the mess.  If you feed a GOOD quality dry dog food, there should be no mess to smear.  Mine are on Canidae and they leave nice little tootsie roll type poops that are easy to pick up and do not smear or leave a mess.  
 Look at what you are feeding, and see if you could make a change that would help while you continue to work on the real issue of house training.
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