Dog suddenly won't go in garden

[househuntinginthesouth]

A few hours ago Ddog ran inside from the garden, she growled towards the garden as if she was frightened. No one in the garden as far as I can tell but I did lock the door to be on the safe side. She's been quite whiney since and has mostly been sat on the stairs looking out towards the garden (rather than her usual spot on the sofa). She attempted to go out but peeked her head out and ran back in. I can't see, hear or smell anything out there (although I know they have much better smell and heating than us so perhaps something like that). Our neighbours gardens are directly next to ours with just a regular fence dividing to she's used to hearing different voices/people doing diy/children/cars etc from the garden. I was going to go outside with her to show her it's okay but she ran and hid upstairs? What could have got her so scared?

How's she doing OP? Has she been in the garden since you posted? If she hasn't, I wouldn't put any pressure on her to go into the garden. Instead, I would take her for regular short walks to give her the opportunity to toilet.

Have you checked her over to see if she has injured herself?

Perhaps she got stung by a wasp? There seems to be a lot of dozy wasps close to the ground at this time of year.

I wrote almost this exact post a couple of weeks ago!

Took about a week or so before my dog finally went back in the garden by choice. We had to take him out the front on a lead for toileting until then.

We did tempt him in the garden a couple of times with high value treats. We just stood there feeding our puppy chicken on the grass and he decided the risk was worth it. But he cleared off again very quickly and was still nervy so not sure it helped anyway.

No idea what did it. Couple have been a frog, grass snake, wasp sting, anything!

Anyway. He's back in the garden now and no problems. But it took a while.

Good luck!