Macy has a potty patch and I love it. I kept her in an x pen with the potty patch and would keep making the x pen larger and larger every week until she had the entire kitchen. She eventually got used to going on the potty patch only. I tried potty pads but she would think throw rugs were potty pads also. When I switched to the potty patch she quit going on the rugs. I would keep her gated in the kitchen when I wasn't home but would let her walk around the other parts of the house watching her all the time when I was home. I bought (2) more potty patches and put one by the front door and one in the master bathroom. I showed her where the others were and told her to go potty. When she would use one I would give her a treat. She now can go anywhere in the house and hasn't had an accident in quite a while. She was hard to train, it took almost a year to potty train her.
When I was training her and she had an accident, I would wipe up the pee and then wipe that across the potty patch. That seemed to help her.
Don't give up, I think inside training is so much easier than outside. When it rains or snows I see our neighbors taking their dog outside, I just tell Macy to go potty and she doesn't get cold or wet.
Good luck
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