Mabel our show cocker pup is 6.5 months old and from the very start has been really difficult in just two (but major!) areas - sleeping through the night and toilet training. We finally cracked the sleeping at four months but now she has reverted back to refusing to go outside in her loo patch and instead weeing (and pooing on occasion) indoors... she knows this is wrong because she won’t make eye contact with us and slinks off to her bed. We try to stay calm etc, not scold her and open the back door, ask her etc several times a day.
This morning at 7am I heard her calling so went down and opened the door for her..she refused to do anything. I took her back inside, prepared her breakfast, fed the cat, etc, and swept the floor. My daughter came down and opened the back door, calling her to do a wee and Mabel did not budge. Some minutes later I found the massive overnight wee on her own cooling mat and Mabel in her bed almost hiding her face. Any advice or something we may have missed/ not doing/ should be doing would be greatly appreciated. I know cockers are stubborn, but this is not a nice issue to be dealing with still at her age and makes us nervous to take her to cafes, friends’ houses etc. Both my husband and I are at home so she has plenty ty of opportunity to ring her bell, stand by the back door etc.
Thank you in advance
One concerned owner