Hanne
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3 months. Is Certainly better than 8 weeks, but they have no control over their business until about 5 months..
Potty Training While Full-Time
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Cindy
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I've always heard that for each month they have an hour of 'holding' capacity/ability. So at around 6 months they can hold for ~6 hours. Once Gavin reached 4 months, I always picked up water around 8PM to minimize potty needs at night.
Calliesmom
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I also picked up the water at night- when I remembered
Here's yet another contradictory opinion - but it worked for us.
I work three or four 12 hour shifts a week. I brought Lover Boy home when he was 8 weeks old. I didn't crate, but I did waste a fair amount of money on an X pen, which he learned to climb out of the first week he was here.
I'm not anti-crating, I just think 12 hours+ is a lonnnnng time. So I puppy-proofed everything - put everything dangerous (electric cords, etc), or tempting-but-valuable out of reach, or blocked off with furniture, and let him use training pads while I was gone. He did great. I had to be a lot more careful of chewing than I did potty issues.
Now I've had him a year, and he's a perfect gentleman - when he's not getting into mischief!
Believe it or not, dogs are naturally clean. They hate "soiling the nest" and won't go on the floor if they can use a pad, won't go on a pad indoors if they can go outside, and won't go in your yard if they can go further away. I never had to "potty train" a dog, just provide them with appropriate places to go.
I work three or four 12 hour shifts a week. I brought Lover Boy home when he was 8 weeks old. I didn't crate, but I did waste a fair amount of money on an X pen, which he learned to climb out of the first week he was here.
I'm not anti-crating, I just think 12 hours+ is a lonnnnng time. So I puppy-proofed everything - put everything dangerous (electric cords, etc), or tempting-but-valuable out of reach, or blocked off with furniture, and let him use training pads while I was gone. He did great. I had to be a lot more careful of chewing than I did potty issues.
Now I've had him a year, and he's a perfect gentleman - when he's not getting into mischief!
Believe it or not, dogs are naturally clean. They hate "soiling the nest" and won't go on the floor if they can use a pad, won't go on a pad indoors if they can go outside, and won't go in your yard if they can go further away. I never had to "potty train" a dog, just provide them with appropriate places to go.
Hanne
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Stella - I really love your post 
- but I am a anti-crating mom. 
I've never had problems with cleanliness - all my puppies from 8 weeks - at least been allowed to go into the entire kitchen when I was not at home.
When I was at home, they always have been with me all over the house.
At night they lay in my bed - when the puppy began to go around, so it was time for a walk outside.
Here they lay until they could jump off the bed, and thereafter there were no problems with keeping clean at night.
- but I am a anti-crating mom. I've never had problems with cleanliness - all my puppies from 8 weeks - at least been allowed to go into the entire kitchen when I was not at home.
When I was at home, they always have been with me all over the house.
At night they lay in my bed - when the puppy began to go around, so it was time for a walk outside.
Here they lay until they could jump off the bed, and thereafter there were no problems with keeping clean at night.