#dog - #Help with Dog's Confusing Behavior

Help with Dog's Confusing Behavior

Hi everyone! Not sure where to begin but like the title says my dog has been displaying weird behavior as of late. I was hoping you guys could help with your thoughts about the issue and how to help fix it. We got our dog, Lola, as a puppy and since then everything has been smooth in training her and she has picked up on things very quickly. We potty trained her by having her ring some bells on our back door to inform us when she wants to go out. There has never been an issue of having her go outside and since she was a young pup has always loved it, always playing in grass and laying under bushes. However about a week and a half ago she started displaying odd behaviors of rarely ringing the bell to go out. At first we thought nothing of it because as she has grown so has her control of urges to go to the bathroom. However as time has progressed (the past 3-4 days) she has started going to the bathroom, mostly poop it seems, upstairs. This is odd behavior because she has not done so since we strictly trained her not to (we prevented her from going upstairs and repeatedly enforced the bell=outside with praise). It worked well and she is very smart and always has had a good memory so she picked up quickly and stuck to it not having another accident til this week like mentioned before. Not only does she not ring the bell to go outside but even if we go out she doesnt run out like she used to do and seems to avoid the grass and bushes that she loved before only sticking to the brick patio. I do not know what happened within such a small window of time for her behavior to switch so drastically. More background would be we have had an AC repair and replacement and have a bathroom redone but thats about the only "out of normal" situations that changed. We stopped her from going upstair around her being 5 months to 6months for the upstairs training. Shes now 10 months and just now did it again but even now it seems like she understands because when confronted she goes to her usual punishment area and lays down until we get her with no resistance. Also she eats two meals a day and drinks a good amount of water per day so I do not believe its a dietary issue. Im confused and worried please help any suggestions for what it could be and how to help her are appreciated. Thanks again

Submitted June 21, 2018 at 02:12PM by ItsDSwizzy
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