HI JULES and welcome!!! PYEWACKET and your birds sound like a hoot!!!
2 of my dogs trained easily ...Peanut the cream one, well she was pisser till 5.5mos old
what i ended up doing was tethering her to me if i couldn't watch her, soemtimes crated her and then walked her again
another trick was to put a wooden folding chair on the stairs leaning and if any doodle knocked it attempting to go upstairs
the chair would come crashing down and making loud noises.
NATURE'S MIRACLE OXY POWER the ORANGE bottle works EXCELLENT on pee and poop.....it makes it so the dog does NOT
smell the area and go there again.
some dogs take longer than others soemtimes WE MISS their signal.
mine used to pant heavily....out we went
peanut also would jump on me .....meant she had to go out, still does this
if she bugs me constantly getting in my face i know regardless if she's been just walked recently or not
she's gotta go!!
with puppies the moment they wake whether a 2 min or 2hour nap run outside
when they play hard ....take them out
and within 10 to 15 min of eating take them out
another thing to to try it AFTER they go outside praise them and then do a short walk or play time
this way it's associated with good things or even TREAT your doodle ONCE inside the house
(mine would fake peeing if i treated them outside)
hang in there.....it will come