I think he can learn both methods. The trainer we, my husband and I, talked to about housebreaking said you should pick one spot in the house with pee pads (or outside) and use that spot every time. Once the puppy/dog makes it to this spot without accidents for 6 months you can then try teaching the dog to use another spot whether its outside or another room in the house. The 6 months seems like a long time but I noticed that when we did both outside/pee pads at the same time Baloo, our puppy, was very confused, one minute he would race to the door and the next he'd run around the apartment looking for a corner to go in! It was funny the first time watching him run from room to room, we didn't understand what he was doing, and then we found the mess
. We've picked the pee-pad method because of work and how neither of us can really make it home every 2 hours to let him out. I hope this helped some
