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I'm anticipating another 6 months on Doppler for him to create the habit and start making attempts to keep it, at best. He's had 5 years of daily accidents indoors and was free roaming without puppy pads, so lots of bad habits to change. He's being crated when indoors and not directly supervised, taken out minimum 3 times a day (seems sufficient, we're also in an apartment and there's 2 dogs to do this). He seems to do okay with that and can hold it through most nights - the hard days are when he's not pooping as much (he got switched to a better food, too), so he doesn't feel like he needs to go but then a few hours or running around he does and gives minimal warning, or just cries and cries even if we're in and out constantly (was in a house a few days ago). He's doing pretty well and only having accidents about twice a week (vs before I had him they were twice daily), so that's already major progress.
Anyhow, I thought it might be interesting to hear other peoples stories for this and how long it took/what your situations were, etc.
Anyhow, I thought it might be interesting to hear other peoples stories for this and how long it took/what your situations were, etc.