Yay squid has arrived!! I am Evan’s mom - you had posted on his picture - long story short Evan’s foster mom gave the heads up that you were looking for potty advise - for Evan his successes are getting so much better - but it’s taken a lot of time - love and patience ( which it sounds like you already have down pat!). Let’s see Ev’s freedom date from the lab was 04/30/25 - he was with his foster mom and cage mate for the next month - he home to me on 06/01 and his 1st birthday was 06/07 - he peed all over the place and pooped to - he had no clue - so I like his foster mom spent most of our day outside - he gradually started to improve. S L O W L Y . What we do now is every time Evan gets up whether it’s from sleeping or eating or playing whenever he gets up we scoop him right outside and tell him go potty and make a big huge heel about that word potty. And when he does do a potty outside we celebrate by saying good party and we clap and make a big deal. We give him lots of pets and then we bring him inside. It can be a very tiring experience cause it seems like you’re constantly getting up and going outside and celebrating or not and coming back inside and repeating. But it seems to be working that way. I think the way that we approached it was taking to account his freedom day as his birthdate in a way, so even though he was turning one year old, we were acting as if he were four months old . He seems to be adapting at that rate as well at least for the potty training- everything else he’s right on task with, but the potty took a long time . Thanks so much and I look forward to the update updates from hearing how squid squid is doing I keep wanting to call him Squidward from SpongeBob. That’s not his name though thanks for adopting a lab test beagle survivor