I take him out every morning when I get up and every evening when I get home... I have started taking him out to go potty right before I go to bed, even if I have to coax him out of the crate. I'd like to walk more with him but he is a smaller dog and a full block at a brisk pace is about all he can do... he is dragging by the time we hit the last corner... Some days when he's up to it he can almost do 2 blocks but its rare.
Every time he goes to the bathroom I repeat "go potty" while he is doing it then do the high pitched 'good dog' and pet him and stuff... I'm not sure how good his hearing is though... sometimes he doesn't hear all that well.
I contacted the woman who was fostering him for a year and she admitted that she was NOT good about training the dogs... she was fostering quite a few dogs with issues so she just put papers down in the house and cleaned-up when she got home...
Guess I'll just keep working with him on it.
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