like others said it's really nobody's business but your own and what works for you. My last dog went inside on newspapers in a litter box in my laundry room, LOL when I put the pee pads down instead of the newspaper he would go outside of the box. However I would say he was not 100% trained and if I left he house he had to be shut in the laundry room. Sometimes I think he wet out of spite, like if I left him inside when I went to get he mail, he would pee on the foyer rug. He also wet a lot more often, about 6 or 7 times during the day, do your inside male dogs wet allot. I was constantly bending down and rolling up wet papers. We spend a lot of weekends on our boat in the summer and are sometimes not near land for a day or so, so bringing that box along was great. When I got Lola I tried to make her go inside, I tried the box, tried pee pads, but she just downright refused to go on them. As soon as we started outside she almost instantly became housebroken and now can hold herself for probably around 7 hours if she had to. I work from home so am around to let her out, but if for some reason if I have to be gone for a log time I need to get someone to let her out, so that's the downside. While I like not having to constantly wipe and sanitize the laundry room, it still made things easier if I had to go out. I would really like to have it both ways, but I can tell it is so against her grain to go inside that I don't think it would work, but if you have any suggestions I might try them. So far we have not been away from land on our boat since we have gotten her so I not sure what will happen if we spend the night away from a dock. |