One of the biggest worries about having a dog is that he would go to the bathroom all over the lawn. We hoped that Boomer would go to the bathroom in the woods every time that we let him out.
So when I got up each morning I would grab him from his cage and bring him out into the woods and say “Go Potty Woods”! Of course he had to go immediately so he went to the bathroom and I praised him. He learned pretty quick, he was not only smart but a real good boy when it came to not messing up the lawn.
I don’t remember ever stepping in dog crap on our lawn. We were lucky!
The only exception to the rule was when it snowed! The top of the snow on the snowbank was really soft and for some reason he would go to the bathroom whenever he climbed on a snowbank!
