Dicksy has been toilet trained from an early age, he just did it himself with hardly any effort from me.  Recently I've been taking him further afield for walks and days out, the problem is no matter what I say i.e the command 'be clean' which I've always used at home, he won't.  He is absolutely bursting by the time he comes home bless him, the other week we went around two markets and was out about 5 hrs but he wouldn't go.  When I take him out every day to school he never does anything up the street as soon as we're back he rushes to the back garden to relieve himself.  We start going to our caravan on the Norfolk Coast hopefully next week and then we'll go for the weekend and although I'm sure he will go eventually I could be in for a long wait before he goes!  He's never gone toilet on a lead either!

My girl is one next month and she has never gone toilet outside. We were out one day for the whole day and she did go eventually but it must have been a good 7 hours before she did so don't worry they will toilet when they are bursting lol. :)

The problem is then where they are when they are bursting!

Millie (5 months) will only go in her garden, and we too had a five hour outing the other day and stopped halfway by a field for her to have a walk about and a wee, but no such luck (it wasn't meant to be that long, got stuck in the jam on the M25 at Thurrock!).

If we visit relatives, she can spend the whole day in the garden but still hold it, and then always comes in doors and finds she can't hold it anymore and goes on the floor/rug etc.

Before going to my sisters on Saturday, I spent the morning, dabbing cotton wool in her wee, placing the cotton wool in a (sealed) bag and on arrival at my sisters I went round the garden dabbing the cotton wool on her patio, stepping stones and even on the grass for good measure, so she'd be able to find her own smell out there.  A couple of hours later...hurrah, Millie did a wee in the garden!! Her first wee outside of our house/garden. Much joy was to be seen from the 4 adults, who crowded round the patio door to watch (lol), and much bemusement was seen from my sister's Westie who got a choc drop and couldn't work out what he'd done to deserve it (well you know how it is, you can't treat one without the other!).

She has a big garden, and she weed a long way away from where I had 'dabbed' but I like to think she had caught her smell out there and knew it was the right place to go.

Unfortunately, a couple of hours later, having just spent a full hour playing in the garden, she then walked back in and weed in my sisters hallway.  Gah!!!!   Oh well at least she did it once!

I had been contemplating collecting wee on cotton wool and walking around the block dabbing it, before taking Millie round a second time to catch the smell, in an attempt to get her to wee on her walks.  Have resisted the temptation to do this before as I didn't fancy getting any strange looks and a reputation for being a wierdo, but it looks like I might have to seriously think about doing this if we're going to make any progress!

I know people say they would love to have a dog who only went in their own garden, but it can be a bind when you can't go anywhere because you know if she needs to go, she will have an accident on their best carpet.  Someone said this means they're not actually house-trained, but she knows her command and will go on command, out to the garden, at home, eg at bedtime or before we go out, but she point blank refuses to go on command anywhere else.