Hi everyone
I have a 14 week old female Golden.
We have had her since 8 weeks and toilet training is going slow.
We have a weird layout house whereby the garden is accessed from the first floor. We have ground floor access to paved outside at the side.
Kitchen is in the middle of the house ground floor with no outside access. This is where her crate is.
I always planned no pads but it became apparent early on that due to layout we would need them for a while but now of course she thinks it's fine to wee on them.
She goes 10-2ish up for a wee then fine till 6 in kitchen in crate but has door open and run of the kitchen. She has stopped weeing in kitchen over night and will wait for us to take her out.
She will attempt to go outside and wait at door for poop which is good. It's just weeing - given that she can hold for around four hours at night she will still wee quite close together when we are in house and often we miss signal as it happens quickly. We will then pop her outside etc.
She had a kidney infection a couple of weeks ago and may have a kidney problem (under vets with this) and is on antibiotics and since she had those she has lasted at night and is weeing less. I'm not sure if she was unwell all along and we didn't realise which may not have helped her, poor thing.
I WFH 3/4 days and DH same and we go to office on different days so she's not left. When I'm at home I have her with me (first floor) and am trying to watch for signs and whip her out, into crate when she gets overtired. When DH there and I'm not he's crate/garden and not watching her and it really worries me but he insists that's going to work - but to me she's on her own too much and we are not being consistent with the training as in she's going in the garden by default as she's out there not because she's learned that's where she needs to pee.
I'm not sure what am asking for- advice on getting rid of pads and getting her to ask to go out as I know she had the holding power now she's on the meds and what to do about DH and his different approach?