With an adult dog, you are trying to re-train them from an "old habit" (potty indoors, no matter where it is) to the "new habit" of potty outdoors. And you really need to look at it that way instead of a "Bad" behavior. Pottying in the house is just an old habit that was established before you got her. She was never 100% housebroken, I can assure you.
So in order to instill the "new" habit, you must create an environment making the dog be more successful at performing the new habit than at performing the old habit. It's strictly a numbers game. If you can limit the number of accidents in the house from a range of 1 to zero, you are going to have a better chance of re-training. If that means keeping her tethered to you and watching her every second (yes, don't turn your back on her for one second) and stating "NO" and sweeping her up and taking her outside, every time she does it inside, then that's what it will take. Also increasing the number of times you take her outside and making her go, will increase the number of successes, too. You may have to keep this up, religiously for several months, but little by little, she is going to demonstrate that she is getting "it" and you will be able to trust her more and more and won't have to keep such a diligent eye on her. |