Bear is 90% potty trained, and he preferes to go outside. He will just stand by the backyard door and wait for us to open the door ( sometimes he barks for us to let him outside).
I want him to go outside when we are home, and on the pads when he is alone at home while we work, and that is exactly how he does it ( there are still occassional accidents like last week under the Christamas Tree
, but in all he learned to ask to go out when we are home.
I think they can learn to do both, pads and outside without any problems.