We were forced to come up with an alternate to outside during a blizzard many years ago. We put paper down in the garage and our guy picked up on that rather quickly. It was still "outside" to him since we went out the same door. Doing that he still will go outside when we are not at home. Once we started doing this in the garage we never went back
So very convenient in bad weather and when it is dark or when I am just not ready for anyone to see me