My girl is 13 weeks old, I have had her for 3.5 weeks now and at the beginning she had a puppy pad toilet area because of our living situation. - I live at home with my mum and her two adult dogs (Shih Tzu males) who haven’t gotten used to her as quickly as we thought so I kept her upstairs in my bedroom most of the time which meant she was using the puppy pads up there.
As the boys have slowly gotten a bit more used to her presence I try to keep her down stairs more often now which means I’ve started trying to potty train her outside the past week or so, it’s going okay she’s had a few accidents in the house but I take her out whenever I see her sniffing and she goes outside when I put her out there. (She doesn’t ask to go outside yet though).
We live in the Peak District UK which if you don’t know is known for its bad weather. It has been non stop rain and strong winds for the past few days and that’s when the toilet training has gone down hill, whenever I take her out she just wants to come back in (crying at the door)
I then tried taking her out the front and a bit away from the house but she just stands still like a statue or tries climbing up my leg. Then when I bring her inside she does the toilet inside.
The weather is only going to get worse and will probably start snowing soon too, is there anything I could try that I don’t know about? I worry that those first couple of weeks allowing her to use the puppy pads upstairs was a big mistake, what can I do to fix this?