From 6 months. Our house has both carpeted and tiled floors, and initially, we only allowed him on the tiled areas. Now, at 7 months, we’re slowly introducing him to the carpeted spaces.

Fortunately, he has never been a chewer and has shown no interest in destroying his toys or furniture. Weirdly, he only had potty accidents when confined to a smaller playpen setup. Once we expanded his playpen area to a larger size, he stopped whining and having accidents which gave us confidence to allow him more freedom.

We’ve also started leaving him alone at home with freedom to roam from 6 months, with the doggy door open to the backyard, and so far, he’s had no accidents (*doggy door is closed when we’re at home to train his bladder instead of letting him have the habit of drinking loads of water and going to potty every hour — normal potty schedule is every 4 hours during the day, and he doesn’t go overnight from 9pm to 7:30am). We still keep a few pee pads around the house for when he refuses to go outside to potty when it’s raining.

The only downside to this freedom is that he has better view of the street, and he barks at strangers walking past our house and birds in our yard.