To get straight to the point...Lucy will not go outside and go potty if she's out there alone. If I let her outside by herself, she just stands by the door and looks up at me like "why aren't you coming out??" There have even been times where she's pooped and peed on the deck, she just simply won't go down the stairs if someone doesn't go with her. She sometimes follows Molly down, but I want her to be able to go outside by herself when she needs to go potty. Right now it's not that big of a deal, because 99% of the time I'm out there with her so I can give her a treat if she goes potty.
How can I fix this? In an attempt to solve it myself, I once stood on the deck and threw bits of treats down onto the patio, and she ran down the stairs to search for them...lol I don't know, I guess I was thinking that would get her to maybe think that by going down there she gets a treat? Haha. I only did it once though, I wasn't really sure if it was helping anything at all, so I didn't want to use up a bunch of treats.
I just need to get her okay with going down the stairs by herself...once she's on the patio, she'll go into the grass by herself and go potty, it's just a matter of getting her to go down there in the first place.
And, speaking of go outside...where do you get a bell? Lol, I want to train her to ring a bell when she goes out, but my mom and I don't really know where to get one.
How can I fix this? In an attempt to solve it myself, I once stood on the deck and threw bits of treats down onto the patio, and she ran down the stairs to search for them...lol I don't know, I guess I was thinking that would get her to maybe think that by going down there she gets a treat? Haha. I only did it once though, I wasn't really sure if it was helping anything at all, so I didn't want to use up a bunch of treats.
I just need to get her okay with going down the stairs by herself...once she's on the patio, she'll go into the grass by herself and go potty, it's just a matter of getting her to go down there in the first place.
And, speaking of go outside...where do you get a bell? Lol, I want to train her to ring a bell when she goes out, but my mom and I don't really know where to get one.