Eddie was 90 percent house-trained at 6 months and 100 percent at 9 months. We didn't use pads or a crate, though in retrospect I'd crate train a puppy.
The secret was reward, reward, reward when he got it right.
Polls are easy to do, btw. Go to the polls forum, create a message, then scroll down on the message form to 'attach a poll.'
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