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gsd bad habits

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Question
i have a German shprd male puppy 4 and half months old.my problems are following...
1)he pee inside  my apartment everwhere.we have a pee place in our balcony and he usualy pee there.but he also do it in other place in our home.how should i train him to pee at his pee place only?
2)in night he usually sit in his pee place and so he becomes wet due to his urine.and he smells whole day.as we cannot bath him daily so he smells due his urine covered to his body.how should itech him not to sit in his pee place and use that space only to pee in night and not to sit threre?
2)he usualy pass poty(shit) outside our apatrmnet when we take him out.and we take him out early in morning after each feed and in finaly in night 11p.m.but his poty time is not pretectible.some time he do it out and some time inside our apartment.how to make him poo only outside our aparment when we take him out.
3)when he do poty inside the aparment he eats his own potty.if we see his potty we immediately remove it but in night and when we are not looking he eats his poty.how to get rid of this habit?

Answer
Crate training is the most efficient, popular way to house train a dog.

I am including information for you to read on crate training and housetraining.

As far as the puppy eating his own feces, there are products you can buy to add to the food that makes the feces unappealing to dogs.  These usually work only as long as you use them.  Once you stop, the dog often goes back to eating the feces.  This behavior is very natural to canines and is often hard to break.

http://www.ddfl.org/behavior/crate-train.pdf
http://www.hsmo.org/m_obedience/behavior/dogcrate.html
http://www.marinhumanesociety.org/Behavior/Handouts/Housetraining.pdf  http://www.ddfl.org/behavior/pup-housetrain.pdf    
http://www.hsmo.org/m_obedience/documents/CanineHousesoilingProblems.pdf
http://www.ddfl.org/behavior/clean-stains.pdf