Dogs Training Blog

She’s almost 7 months old and this girl will NOT potty train. I need help bad!!!!!!!Fist off, she’s very smart. I’ve taught her to sit, heal, get down, no biting, no jumping, no sniffing at tables (food), go to your crate, go eat, go potty, lay down, play with your toy, ring the bell (to go outside – but only on command, not taking initiative to do it without command), come…all of those things she listens to and obeys.Second, I’m the alpha. She lets me walk thru doors before her, she listens to my commands, she shows me respect. She breaks eye contact before I do. Absolutely everything.I actually thought everything was better lately…but let me start at the beginning…The only thing she wouldn’t obey was potty training. And she KNEW it was wrong…even after the fact, by the way she’d act with her head all low…don’t know why they say dogs don’t know ‘later’…cuz she knew/knows.At first, she went in her crate….EVERY DAY. She finally learned not to do that.So then I was working on the house part.She seemed like she’d finally learned a couple of weeks ago. We went THREE weeks with no accidents. Now suddenly for the last four days…BAD DOG!!!!!!! She pee’ing and pooping and, sure, looks sad about it…but she’s doing it. And she’ll even start to do it right in front of us!!!!!!!!!There’s been no changes, we haven’t moved, changed her food, her schedule, anything.PLEASE help us!! It was ‘hard’ to love her before…we just were having to get on to her too much and clean too much poop. I was really enjoying our relationship fully for the first time…and now this.I desperately need your help…?I DO award best answer! Thanks for any advice you can give…

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