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Toilet training help?

Hey Team!

We’ve been trying to retrain Thor to go to the toilet in the yard since we’ve moved. Doing what Nathan suggested with taking him to the toilet, asking him to go, if he doesn’t do it, getting him to drink some water and putting him back in the crate for a while and repeating until he wees.

Yesterday he didn’t do it and after trying from 7am-2:30pm (took him in and out of the crate about 6-8 times, and then left him outside from 1-2:30pm to see if he’d go — he did not) and then I felt bad he had not gone to the toilet so I took him out the front where I knew he’d go and he only did a small one (thinking he genuinely may have not needed to go).

Tried again this morning, we’ve gone between yard and crate 5 times (I thought maybe more frequently taking him in and out could be better), but I feel he’s cottoned on to the process and he just sits on the grass, and now he won’t drink water when I offer it to him and he is just walking straight into he crate like he’s happy to be there (previously he wouldn’t love going in there without treats, kong or bribes when we’d put him in to leave the house) 🫠 I am starting to go insane because it’s so simple in theory but he is 100% being stubborn and refusing!

Any advice, suggestions or just hope that he will actually do it??? Or is this something that will take longer than a few days to master? 😅

P.S it’s Tiana (accidentally accepted the invite to Skool on Jarrod’s account lol)

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