Puppy potty training - desperate for help!

[kibbleforlola]

Rainy days are always the worst for potty training. Lola's four now and she still does a pee dance by the dog door when it's raining out. I can just see a thought bubble over her head "do I really have to go out there, can I hold it a little longer?"

 

[RascalsMom]

Yeah it's been raining all week and it seems we are back to square one - coming directly inside and pooping.

 

[Poppy]

Sorry. It's always 2 steps forward, one (sometimes 2!) steps back, or so it seems. My dogs hate to potty in the rain. They hate to potty in the snow. And in the wind. In other words, it really has to be ideal weather conditions to get them to potty agreeably.

 

[RascalsMom]

They won't even go if it's not raining - it's been wet and they just stand at the edge of the yard and won't walk around and wait to go in. I'm assuming its because its been wet out. Hopefully they'll do better if/when we get some sun shine!

 

[ledboots]

A friend of mine adopted a dog who hadn't been outside at all. She got those puppy wee pads, and then would put one of the pads outside when it was rainy or snowy and she would go on it. It worked great for the pee, but she always did poo in the house now and again.

 

[shyvas]

They won't even go if it's not raining - it's been wet and they just stand at the edge of the yard and won't walk around and wait to go in. I'm assuming its because its been wet out. Hopefully they'll do better if/when we get some sun shine!

My pooch doesn't like to go if it's raining neither. I remember her turning around quick as lightening as soon as she realised that it was raining !

Oh well, we'll all have to move out to the desert with our babies.

 

[RascalsMom]

It's been rainy here ever since, and they've been doing pretty much every poop inside they won't go outside even if its a little bit wet outside. But if we go to the park, they'll poop there if its wet, (we don't go when it's raining but the ground has been wet for weeks) and they'll even play in puddles! At home - nope.

 

[Poppy]

Perhaps you might try walking them in the neighborhood. I know you have a fenced yard, and that it's most convenient to just let them out, but mine ALWAYS seem to poop on walks, and they have a fenced yard too.

 

[RascalsMom]

We do take them hiking on the weekends and to the dogs park a few times a week. They always seem to go potty then. Hm. They're never outside alone but maybe I will try more walks.