How often does an average healthy dog need to go outside?

My dog goes out at about 7:30 in the morning and then waits until my kids get home at 3:00 to go out again. When the weather is nice she will go outside with me when I smoke. So she goes out frequently. When it's cold outside I've noticed she wants to go out about every three hours.

I have a rescue dog who is 5, and she doesn't tell us when she needs to go out. An adult dog in theory should be able to hold it for 8 hours. However, I like to get my dog out every 4-5 hours, so we go 4 times per day.

My dog uses a potty pad on my shower floor during the times we are inside and upstairs. Downstairs, he will sometimes use the downstairs potty pad and sometimes he will ask to go outside. I would guesstimate he pees about 5 or 6 times a day. Unless we go somewhere, then he has to pee at least two drops on every bush and tree along our path, making it one big long pee session.

He's funny about his pee habits. When he's at home, he squats to pee and always has. When we are in public, he lifts his leg. It cracks me up. He will even squat in my backyard, so it isn't just that there is nothing to pee on inside the house. It is really comical when he lifts one leg and then squats like he can't make up his mind.

Ours goes out 4 times a day (morning, noon, dinner, before bed). He never a tells us when he needs to go so there are still some accidents. But he at least uses a doggy pad.

Lucy has an iron bladder so can go for 12 hours at a stretch ...

She goes out at night (10pm) and morning (5am) an a number of times during the day to simply sun herself on the deck   

Depends on if the door is open or not. We have a doggie door in the storm door and typically we leave the door open through out the day. If the door is open he might go out in the morning, once in the after noon and then again at night. When the weather gets severe we shut the door and then his needs become every 10 minutes. I kid you not. He will stand at the back door and wait for us to open the door. Or he will pace around us till we let him out. But if the door is open for him to come and go as he pleases, he sleeps on the couch. Drives me batty.

We have a doggie door so I really don't pay attention.

Sometimes they go outside just to lay in the sun.

They also get a mile walk in the morning and at least a mile in the evening.

I have a doggy door and I'm home all day. My 2 shih tzus are in and out constantly in nice weather. How many times to actually pee or poo is unknown, I'm sure most of the time they're out there is just to run around and play.

I have a small chihuahua who loves to drink lots of water. This isn't bad, is it? But this means she needs to go out at least every 3 hours, minimum.

I would be concerned. Have ever mentioned this to the vet? Your dog could be diabetic.

At our old house we had a dog door to the screened porch in back that lead out to our fenced yard. When the weather was nice we'd just leave the door to the house open, lock the screen door and they could come and go as they pleased which was about every half hour, LOL. Once we moved to our current house that was no longer an easy option, plus my allergies got worse living out where there are more trees and ragweed so we have the doors and windows closed up more in the summertime. Our old dogs would go outside more often than most because they were conditioned to a lifetime of being able to go out at will. I'd say probably at least 8-10 times a day, but usually just to scope out what was going on outside and not necessarily to pee.

Now we have one old dog left and he's our 'bark at everything that moves' guy. I don't always let him out now if I'm fairly certain he doesn't need to be out, because he barks at everything and drives me nuts. Even so, he probably still goes out at least 6-7 times a day. He doesn't get walked on a leash because he pulls his head out and doesn't behave, but he does have the run of an almost two acre yard surrounded by Invisible Fence.

Our newest dog is almost two but she is a rescue and wasn't house trained properly by her original owner. I've had her for a little over five months. I take her out to go potty probably 4-6 times a day depending on how much I'm home to give her as many opportunities to go out as I can to increase her chances of successful days. Since I'm the one primarily watching her and paying attention, she probably actually pees about four times a day and poops twice most days.

That's my dog too! She doesn't need to pee, she just likes to investigate the noises. 

we just take the dog out twice a day.. morning anytime from 7 am to 9:30 am. then in afternoon.. sometime between 4-6. usually let him out in backyard at 10 pm to pee, but not always.. mini schnauser...

Our old man would get a long walk in the morning and pee himself out for the rest of the morning, afternoon, after he ate dinner, walk at night and peed a few more times, and then before bed. He never (ever) let us know he wanted to go out. We just had to guess when we thought he would want to go. He got walked early in the morning so he was good after waiting all night.