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Originally Posted by kjc  There's a very good chance that the puppy will imitate Riot, follow him outside and do his business.
Or set up an xpen with a peepad that Riot can't get access to... |
Agreed. The new dog will one day realize how wonderful it is to perform these bodily functions where it is most natural to their species and leave its scent outside for all the dog world to smell, especially after repeatedly seeing and smelling a sibling leaving its scent outside, and the newbie will want like heck to cover sibling's scent with its own and follow the canine's natural and centuries-old genetic predisposition to relieve itself 'out-of-doors'. After all, wolves nor early canines had any ready access to pads, newspaper, carpet or anything but the great outdoors in which to "do their business" until quite late in their history. And it is just born and bred into them to perform this natural function in the most natural place there is - the ground somewhere not too near their habitat, this ridding their body of waste and marking their territory.