hi! my husband + i have had our rehomed 3yr old miniature poodle mix for three weeks. he’s amazing + we love him so much, but we’re having trouble communicating with him re: outside bathroom trips. it’s not a daily issue, but occasionally comes up.
this morning, for example, we were awake for 90 minutes, he had been outside twice already—the wakeup trip + the after breakfast trip—+ i found a puddle on my yoga mat when i went back into the bedroom to get ready to go get groceries. this would be understandable if we were ignoring him for a long time or it had been a while, but we were just hanging out in the house + he didn’t communicate with us that he needed to go outside.
we’re not punishing him for it because that feels mean-spirited when it must be something we as the humans are missing. we’re working toward bell training him, but is there anything we can or should do to streamline or ease the process in the meantime?
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