My husband & I are getting a GSP in a couple months and want to be prepared. We live in a very dog friendly apartment in Oregon with a fenced patio, dog park, all sorts of walk paths through the trees right outside &open field  (don’t have to drive to) and dog grooming on the premises. We also have our own outdoor entrance to just our place (it’s not dorm style). We are planning/hoping to get a house within the next year or so.  

I am a hairstylist and have a super flexible schedule/ make my own schedule. Some days I’ll work 3 hours some days 4 hours, some days 6 hours and some days of the week not at all. My work is also only 7 minutes away so I’m flexible to come home whenever. My husband & I are both from Montana and he is a football coach so he doesn’t come home during the day and is busy during season but isn’t very busy in the off season and has a month off in the summers. He loves to fly fish and would want to take him and likes to hunt occasionally. We are both former college athletes so we are very active and already go for 2 walks every day and there’s plenty of cool hikes around and a beach 1 1/2 hours away. 

Is pee training when they are a puppy on a patch on the patio a bad thing? 
There’s a lot of big dog breeds at our complex so I’m worried about him without vaccines peeing on the actual grass. 

We also want to start crate training!

Any advice and tips welcome! 

I also could take the puppy to work if I needed to although I know they aren’t really “salon” dogs lol. 

GSP apartment for a year advice welcome