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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not so hard OP. Puppy pads are your friend. Dog sleeps with you in floor crate surrounded by those wire gates. Make it a small area. Do not take the dog out when you are asleep. I never did. Dog may pee but will not poop or will do so rarely. Dog will learn we do not go outside late at night. During day puppy needs to go out and if you are at work you either go to daycare or have someone in. Take a long term look and yes get rid of carpets. My dog was fully trained 4 months but it seemed long at the time. Dog has been the best thing for our family. Keeps everyone out walking when we want to be couch potato’s and when your teen is a brat no one loves you like your dog.[/quote]

Sleeping on the floor in a pen, relying on puppy pads, having to get rid of all your carpets, and house training taking 4 months does sound hard and it does seem like a long time. This "method" sounds awful and drawn out. I've always done what the PPs using crates have done and my dogs have taken like a week/2 weeks to get it mostly and maybe a month period of time where there is a pee accident or two.[/quote]

Exactly. This is a mess, literally and figuratively. Not to mention that puppies can't hold their bladder for an 8-hour night. They're just not physiologically ready for it yet. "Take the age of your puppy in months and add one, and that is the maximum number of hours that your puppy should be able to comfortably hold it between potty breaks." (source: https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/potty-training-your-puppy-timeline-and-tips/) That's the MAX; puppies who are actively awake, eating, drinking and playing should go out much more often.

If you're not ready to wake in the night to take pup out, don't get a puppy. If you can't monitor the puppy and are unwilling to crate the puppy, don't get a puppy. If you're not going to be home to take 16 potty walks every day for several months, don't get a puppy. [/quote]

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