Just wanna make sure we're on the right path; we started giving our girl a little more freedom, and she has started signaling that she has to go out by barking. We're still in the progress of teaching her to ring bells to go out (she's a little scared of the bells so we're teaching her to touch the strap they came on with them removed first).
Sometimes she warns us by barking, and we confuse it with demand barking (which she does a lot of at this age) and that is 100% on us – if we know we haven't taken her out in a certain time period we should be listening better.
But not even 10 minutes ago she just had an accident where she barked to alert me, and starting running towards the back door, but halfway through the house she just peed on the floor (I was in the middle of getting up). It was in the back of my mind that I should take her as she got up to bark, so I guess both of us were just too slow.
Is this normal for this age? It seems like she's aware of it but maybe just couldn't hold it long enough to get to the door. I'm proud of her for alerting me, but I'm a little sad we don't have it quite down yet, after having her for almost 7 weeks. We clean the pee with enzyme cleaners (either Zep urine cleaner or Angry Orange pet odor remover) after every accident and also Swiffer regularly (and mop), so it's not that she's drawn to peeing in certain areas or anything- most of her accidents are literally on the way to the back door.
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