I have a 4 year old corgi, who has been pretty much potty trained since he was a small puppy. However, I've noticed that even though I walk him at scheduled times, he doesn't really ever ask or give any cue to go outside anymore outside of those regular times. That would be fine, except for one specific scenario: If he needs to poop more urgently when something upsets his stomach. He has a sensitive stomach and this happens every few months, sometimes twice in a row until he feels better.
In those times, he just quietly goes to poop in the stairwell or in a random corner of the guest room. Until now, it has only happened at night, so I thought maybe his cues were just more subtle and didn't wake us up. But today he did this in broad daylight, just left the room and popped a squat one room over. I know he's not feeling 100% and probably doesn't have much warning of it himself, but he didn't even *try* to bark or go downstairs toward the front door or anything.
Is this something that can be trained? Like how do you re-train an adult dog to give a cue that they need to go outside? Or is it not possible to train in this scenario since he needs to go so urgently?
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