Congrats! I just heard from Pete that you have joined us on The Book project.

As far as the puppy, what type of puppy do you have? That's more just nosy than anything to do with training. I've house trained a lot and one thing I find works well is training me. Puppies seem to have very quick transiting of either food or water. So, until they were six months or older, I would give water and in about 15 minutes we would head outside, play for a few minutes, puppy does his/her business and I praise like crazy. With food, I would feed, wait about 20 minutes, take puppy outside and usually within about 10 minutes business is done. I praise puppy and we head back in.

Bad, bad habit of mine since my 6-year-old and 4-year-old German Shepherds still sleep in or near my bed -- with small puppies (6 to 12 weeks) I kept them close enough that their squirming at night would wake me up to take them outside. Every puppy I've had seemed to need bathroom relief at least once during the night and sometimes more, even when I didn't give any water after about 10 PM.

Good luck with that. Are you traveling with the puppy?