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outside training VS pee pads. Keep this in mind, if you train foroutside potty only, come rain, shine, sleet, snow, hail you will always have to walk the pup. I speak from experience. When I lived in NY (Da Bronx) , back in the mid 90's , I had at that time 3 pups, we had a major blizzard, jobs shut downs, store closing, 4 feet of snow, and me with 3 dogs that needed to be walked lol. They were walked at 7:30AM every morning, but this day the sidewalks were not shoveled so we had to wait lol, at 9AM some side walks were cleared, streets were not yet plowed. But out we all went lol. It's a commitment when we choose to house break for outside only. I never regretted my decision to outside potty train. My lil adopted boy is outside potty trained, last winter was a bad snow, ice filled one, I had to shovel paths for my lil guy, when it rains he won't go out lol, I own my own home now, so shoveling falls on me lol, I was able to get him to use my very large deck in bad weather or when it rains as I have a 8 x 16 roof over my backdoor, so the prince discovered he will not get wet when it rains. I do not want anymore pee paper / pads in my laundry room any more, so I do what must be done to have my boy go outside. It's your choice. Yearssssss back when I had my first poodle, she was paper trained because I was afraid she would pick up doggie disease's even tho she had all her shots, she was my very first dog as an adult, just like your very first baby, over protective. She came with me and NOT so DH lol every where, no matter who I went to visit, the pup came along and so did the pee pee paper. I never want to have to go through that again, reason I opted to house break out outside potty only.