I've been dreading posting this, honestly, because I feel like such a failure admitting the struggles we've been having to get Bella PT'd. She WILL go outside. We finally taught her to go to the door when we say 'outside' and she walks down the steps by herself now, which is a huge step (no pun intended). But, the problem is, she won't come to us when she has to potty...we have to guess. We had her on a schedule for a while but now it's all out of whack again. She tends to go poop 3-4 times a day, twice in the morning, once in the afternoon and again at night. Tonight we took her outside not long after eating and she went, so that was good. But if she has to go....she'll go hide and do it in the house. She WON'T just come to us and bark....and we've tried to get her associated with doing that as much as possible, but it's NOT working. I feel like we're doing something wrong.
I want her to be potty trained, I'd love to have her on a schedule and get her to know that pottying inside is NOT an option. We used to put puppy pads down, but she would chew them to pieces and eat them/play with them all the time so that's out. Any suggestions? Does it normally take this long to potty train? Is it unheard of to still be a year old and not potty trained? I feel like we're not doing something right.