Kodah is 99.9% trained to go outside when I can leave the door cracked to our backyard.  But if the door is shut & you don't see her at the door, she will just go on the floor - don't know how to teach her to bark  

  - so I am always taking her out every two hours or so when the AC is on.  When I was training her & it was raining, I would take a huge umbrella out & hold it over us until she would go.  Now when it is raining she runs REAL QUICK & then back in.  Last night we had thunderstorms & I was outside at 4:30 in my nightie with an umbrella over Stormy (our new puppy) & Kodah  running around the yard doing her thing!  If only the neighbors knew what they were missing in the wee hours of the morning!