How to deal with a dog that really seems like it doesn’t want to pee outside?
Basically the title, my and my fiancé have a young puppy (Siberian Husky, about 10 weeks) that has been very resistant over the last week and a half to any measure of house training.
Every time we bring her to the backyard she refuses to pee/poop unless we leave her out there for 10+ minutes (and that is when she does go, which is about 1/4 the time).
Obviously we want to supervise her because she’s so young and we’re worried about her eating things she shouldn’t, so we end up having to take turns supervising her for long periods of time to ensure she actually goes. We take her out probably once an hour if not more.
This is even more frustrating because she at times, will immediately go when we bring her inside or she will go to places out of site (behind couches or other pieces of furniture) to pee. This means we pretty much have to keep her under constant supervision in the house as well.
Truthfully, none of this would be much of an issue if it wasn’t for the fact that even though we reward her with a treat and praise every time she does go outside, she still seems to prefer going inside. I’m not sure if it’s because she doesn’t feel comfortable going in our line of sight, because it’s been somewhat cold out lately (around 40-55 Fahrenheit), or just because she seems to be a bit stubborn (she likes to try to ignore commands at times).
We try not to scold her because we read online it just makes them more pee-shy around us, sometimes I’ll make a “nu-uh” sound when I catch her going in the house but I try to sound calm when I do it. I do understand she’s young and it’s only really been a week and a half, but it’s still frustrating nonetheless. Thoughts?
Edit: She is crate trained but we generally only try to crate the dog unless we are going to bed, and even then her crate is in our room. She does have some slight separation anxiety but I’m not sure if that is really related.
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