Hello, I am moving to a new house with my dog this weekend. Where we currently live, there isn’t a back door to the garden so take her out on a lead and through the gate. Every time, without fail, as soon as we take the lead off she sprints off barking. Naturally we want her to use the garden for the toilet but also to play in. If we keep her lead on, she will not go to the toilet, but when taken off she just runs about barking.
She seems to be riled up from things she’s seen in the garden previously (weeks+ ago, like a cat) and doesn’t forget they were there. After her run around, she will also just stand there sniffing the air very intently and sometimes bark at absolutely nothing. I feel like she just has an association that garden = barking.
Moving to the new house, how can we ensure this association doesn’t happen? I’d love to be able to just open the door and she wanders out, rather than get really hyped to go out and run around barking.
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