I believe that any dog can be potty trained 100%. It's up to the owner and how much work they put into it.
Jackson is 99% outdoor potty trained. He has never ever gone in someone else's home (and we dogsit so I visit a lot of other peoples homes) and is completely trustworthy to be set free in a strange home. He is 100% at my dads house where we sleep one or two nights a week.
The only reason I say 99% is because if I ignore his signs, he will go to the other side of our house and poop in the living room but it's rare that it happens. It's always my fault... sometimes I'll have just brought him inside and then he starts barking at the door again but I ignore him thinking he just wants to go play outside again, and that's when he will go poop in the house, lol. Needless to say, I don't ignore him anymore and an accident hasn't happened in a long time. I also give him a ton of freedom, the house is rather long, if I just kept him back in my section of the house, he would never have an accident period.
As a pup, I had him on a very strict schedule. For about 3 weeks, he was in the crate whenever I could not keep my eye on him 24/7. We'd wake up around 7am, go outside to potty and I'd praise and treat like crazy when he went. Then we'd have our playtime from about 7-8am where I never took my eye off him. Then back in the crate he'd go, etc, we'd do this throughout the day. If I took him outside and he did not go, he'd come right back inside and go in the crate so he did not have a chance to have an accident. Set them up for success. He has had free roam of house now since 5 months old.
I see so many posts where people are like "omg! he won't get housetrained!" but they are giving the pups free roam, they are taking them outside and when they don't go, they bring them back in and let them have free roam and THEN they go! And then people don't understand... "He was JUST outside!! Then he comes inside and goes!! I don't get it!!" Well puppies aren't programmed to know English or know what we want from them... we have to teach them. If pups lived in their own perfect world, they'd go potty wherever they pleased. |