My little gorgeous pug x french bulldog (Betty) is now 4.5 months old and I'm really struggling with toilet training her. She's crate trained and is totally dry in her crate overnight, so I know she can do it if she wants to.
She's pretty good at not pooing inside. She'll sniff around by the door and I'll put her out and she'll poo outside...no accidents in the house for weeks now. But with weeing, she's so hit and miss. She'll happily wee outside, but just as happily wee inside too, with no whining at the door, or any warning.
She's restricted to the kitchen until she's toilet trained, but it could be that I've put her outside and she's done a wee, then we'll come back inside and I'll leave her in the kitchen for 20 mins whilst I'm doing something else, and she'll probably have wee'd in that time.
Now, it doesn't help that I work 3 days a week and in those 3 days she's at my mum's house, haring around and having a ball with my parent's big lurcher. Her toilet training at my mum's house is much much worse than it is at mine, which I can understand with the constant excitement that my mum's house holds for her.
I really don't know how to address this, or is it just simply too early to expect her to be house trained? We're putting her outside very often (at least every hour, often every half hour). We're not using those training pad things, or paper, just simply putting her outside alot. Do I need to go really hardcore on the crate training - eg putting her in the crate every time we're not in the room with her, or is there a better way of doing this? Or is this perfectly normal for a pug and it will just get better in time?