Strange dog behavior
Our oldest dog has decided that she doesn’t want to go out in the back yard through her doggie door if it is raining out. We have an awning over the back porch so that she can go out onto the porch and not get wet, but she sticks her head out the doggie door and listens. If she hears anything that sounds like rain, she will just back up into the house and refuse to go out there! She’d much rather just find someplace in the house to relieve herself. Naturally I’m not happy about that at all!
I did notice, however, that if we ask her if she wants to go out the “front door” she will run excitedly to the front door and wait to be chained onto the cable tie we have there and she will go happily outside into the front yard regardless of the weather! Now I understand that the front yard is much more exciting than the back yard, but I think that is just a little bit unreasonable, don’t you? And for some reason, my dog doesn’t seem to be open to rational reasoning!
So it seems that the solution to the problem is that on rainy days I will just have to let her out the front door on her cable tie!