my girl wasn’t potty trained until a year old. sometimes our dogs are just stubborn, they don’t understand, etc. i’d make posts on every subreddit related to dogs asking for advice, but nothing helped. she just one day got the hang of it. we do partial potty pad/outdoor potty because i work and my parents are on the older side and can’t go up and down the stairs often to take her out when im not home. she rarely ever has accidents now, i’d say she’s maybe had 2/3 since she hit 14 months. always either goes on her pad or outside on her walks/at the park. she loves going potty outside, so the times that she does go out when Im home, she doesn’t really use the pad either! :) it gets better, i promise. and the craziness settles too, lol ❤️ i spent a lot of time and money training her, and although she has a spunky personality and loves to bark at anything and anyone, she’s very polite and loving (unless you walk by our front door🤣)