In my humble opinion, it's best to have your baby trained to go both ways. Ian is def house-broken, and refuses to use pads. That is fine when we're at home, but last Christmas we went to CT to visit my son, and had major problems trying to get Ian to poop or potty in the snow. By hubby cleared an area for him, but he was not interested. I brought a lot of pads with us, but he refused to use those as well. (I even laid about ten pads in the snow for him to stand on.
) Ian finally went outside to potty and poop, but each day we had the same challenge.