well, 8 weeks is very young and I live in Missouri where it is very cold right now too I think if it were me I would let your pup go inside for now.
I am sorry to say I dont have experience with inside potty as Charlie has always gone outside but he was 6 months when he came to live with us. Training him wasnt hard tho. we made sure to put his food out for him and took him out about 15-20 minutes after each feeding and when he had a drink then praised him like nothing else when he went. it took a weekend to train him.
Im sure there are YTers that do the indoor potty thing and they will give excellent advise on that.
A thought tho... if you are set on them going outside, if you have a porch you could get one of those potty patches of grass and take your pup out to that after feeding and put them on the potty patch then as it warms up move that potty patch closer to the grass in the yard. again its just an idea, just make sure you go out with them and dont let them stay out to long. |