I have a little bit of an odd issue. How do I train my dog to go the bathroom outside my yard?
She's about 18 months old golden retriever female and I have a really hard time to get her to go to the bathroom outside our yard and it's starting to create some issues.
I was taking her for some good walks during the spring through fall, but I live in a cold climate so we've been trying to find a nice middle ground for walks (I get hives from the cold and she HATES the cold). We were doing about 2 miles a night for 6 months and in all that time she peed once outside the yard and the entire time she looked like she thought she was going to be in trouble. I praised her and gave her treats and made a huge deal out of it because it had been something I was trying to get her to do. I thought it was a break through but it was literally the only time it happened. I even took walks with friends and their dogs specifically so she could see the behavior modeled for her. No luck. I took her on a road trip to a concert when she was about 4 months old, she refused to go potty, held her pee for the first 24 hours and refused to poo until day three. She just won't do it.
We went to my aunts cabin in the woods for thanksgiving and she drank two bowls of water and had some extra treats for the holiday but when I let her out to go potty she would go to the car and tap it in an insistent way like "I want to go home". Eventually we left and when we got home it was literally the first thing she did. We're going back for Christmas and I just need some advice on getting my dog to go potty in the woods. Or right off the deck, I don't care, I just would like her to do it so I can praise her and maybe get her used to the idea of it.
She never goes potty in the house, not since she was tiny. She potty trained in about a week of us getting her and she's so good about going in the yard.
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