How to Transition Your Puppy from Indoor to Outdoor Potty Training

By the third or fourth week on a consistent puppy potty training schedule, most puppies start showing a measurable drop in indoor accidents, often from several a day down to one or none. The real marker of progress here isn't the number of accidents alone, but the pattern: successes cluster around the same times you've been taking them out, which tells you the internal clock is syncing with your routine. A puppy who reliably eliminates within a few minutes of going outside, rather than wandering for ten minutes before anything happens, is demonstrating a learned association rather than a random…