@JuliaChang93 Are we talking about an adult or a puppy? Puppies can't climb stairs and need to be carried outside. If it's an adult, I'm somewhat confused as well. Is there at least one free square of your own property at the end of those steps or do they go all the way to the road? Maybe that has something to do with it. The dog might not be registering your stairs as a way to get on your lawn. If there isn't at least one free square you might try moving your house a square back (tedious I know) and see if that works. It'd be better to put in the work troubleshooting than dealing with constant peeing on your deck...
Also during your walk you CAN get your dog to go to the bathroom. During one of the moments you stop walking and nothing seems to be happening, click the ground and choose the encourage to do business option. You should even have time to pick up any poo done. 😉
Hello, does not matter if the dog is large or small. I tried enlarging porch size (first it was 6x2, i changed it to 6x3) and nothing happened. Also tried carrying my home a few squares back even there was already remaining area (it was nearly 3 squares even before), no solution... ☹️ The dog is an adult, also can use stairs in normal ways (when i take my sim and my dog for a walk for example) there is no problem. Sometimes she comes to a family member crossing that stairs, but does not listen to me if i ask her to go to potty lol. It also happened another house in Sulani with an adult dog. I added some pictures showing the porch size (before - after) and remaining squares after stairs. As i mentioned before, she sometimes uses a balcony in the back and it is already smaller than the front porch... :/ I know we can get rid of this poop issue by taking the dogs for a walk but not everytime i am able to do it, so nowadays whenever my dog is struggling about this problem, i am using "make happy" trick unfortunately ☹️
@JuliaChang93 At this point I'm convinced you are right about the stairs. Silly as it sounds, the only conclusion I can come to is that a dog will register those small porch stairs with only a few steps as a way out, but not the long ones you can put in your home like you have. Is there any way to have a door outside on ground level? I think if I were you I'd be desperate enough to put a special door outside to the backyard for my dog to use just to not have to deal with the constant clean up on my other porch until this gets resolved. If the dog can come to you up the stairs to complain it has to go to the bathroom, it logically should be able to recognize those same steps as a way to that lovely yard it just walked in from. This is definitely a bug.
@crinrict Thanks for checking the lots out! Maybe it is just my luck the houses i felt in love with always have this problem lol...But those are also very popular houses on the gallery so i am a bit surprised that there is only one person checked "me too" button... :/
@SheriGR Oh, i understand, thanks for the explanation. Sledgehammer tool does not identify anything as a tile so i think no grass tiles had been used on this lot also. Seems like there is no workaround for this *sigh*
@PriestessAvenara since this house does not have any backyard area / garden (only some balconies on back) i cannot choose these doors as other main doors :/ well, i will try moving in another house because everything i tried so far has its own * or they did not work either; just hoping not to experience this poop issue again :'(
