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When I had puppies I was a working gal. I trained them to pee pee on the paper, when they were 100% paper trained (usually they were at 5 months old) I then started to house break them. Every morning at 7:30am, rain, snow, sleet, 7:30am was their walk time. I would get home from work at 4:30, leash them up for their walk. On these walks I would tell them to pee pee and poo poo, these were the words I used and they knew what they were. You have to be consistant with the walk time, no matter what the weather is. It took 2 months of leash walking and they were 100% house broken at the ages of 7 months old. If you are retired or a SAHM, it works the same way. To house break, time is the utmost important, it MUST be the same time every day, regardless of the weather. Your dog CAN BE retrained, you have to put the time in. I would not leave wee wee pads down at all. Take him out every 2 hours if you have to. When he makes praise, praise, praise and give a treat. when he gets the idea making outside is a good thing you can cut the time to every 3 hours, then 4 hours and so on. It can be done, it's the time factor, the same time everyday until he knows what he's expected to do.