What do you have to do . . .
 

. . . to get your furbaby to do her "business", short of a potty dance? Actually at this point I would do one.:cheer:
Millie has been fed, watered, played with, brushed, and has napped, but when I take her outside for the appointed potty breaks - nothing, nada, nil.
I take her outside on a leash and tell her to "Go Potty", then she sniffs around, finds a weed to chew on or dig at, stops to watch people or cars go by, etc. and forgets what she is out there to do. I try to keep her focused - we don't play, I walk her past her other successes, and I don't let her wander too far.
What do YOU have to do to get your babies to go?:confused:

~C

How old is she ? That can sometimes make a difference because you can watch for signs they are ready to go if they are older , because they tend to go less then.

What I did with Sydney was take her out to her spot ,say "go potty" and wait for about five minutes saying "go potty " one more time. Then if I thought/knew she probably had to go ...I would start to walk her in a small figure 8, then I would stand still and keep the figure 8 going just moving her and the leash, that always seemed to start something in her and she would go. It works for me everytime.

Hiro gets SO distracted outside.
ANYTHING (other than pottying) is fair game to give attention to. lol

I take him out, I put him on his run, and I say: 'Go pee.'
If he's starting to look at something I don't want him to look at and it is obvious that he has NO intention of peeing, I clap my hands and say: 'NO. Go pee.' He looks at me and usually proceeds to pee. It wasn't always like this, but I just tell him 'NO' when he's doing something wrong, and an enthusiastic GOOD BOY! and a treat (while) he is doing it right! Sometimes he pees on command, other times I have to remind him a couple times WHY we're outside.

In the beginning, I spend 10, 15, 20 minutes outside.. sometimes longer. I DID NOT COME BACK IN THE HOUSE UNTIL HE POTTIED!!!!!!!!!!! I am stubborn as an effing mule, and I can stand outside JUST as long as he can! heehee. I did, a couple times, when he didn't potty and it was cold outside or raining or something, would bring him in, put him in his crate for 15 minutes and try again. When he finally pottied, I treated him, praised him and back in the house RIGHT away! He's much quicker now, but the time has decreased over the last few months since we started. Now he takes care of it inside of 1-5 minutes.