There are likely thousands of articles on house-breaking dogs. That being said this is still a tough issue for a lot of newer dog owners so, I'm sharing my knowledge in the hopes it will help others along the way. After 13 years of fostering dogs there's one thing I know to be true: every dog is different. Some are easy to potty-train, others, not so much. In this post I'll lay out what I do and what works best in our household. This post is partially titled " Setting Them Up for Success ." Reason being: I often see folks getting off to the wrong start with their dogs when it comes to potty training/house-breaking. A quick example : a few weeks ago I was in a local pet store (think pet food supply store- not a puppy-mill-peddler store ). There was a little blind poodle up for adoption with one of our local rescue groups there. -I'm not saying names of particular places or res