Potty Training Dogs in Apartments

I also got the same issue with my dog living in apartment. I simply have to make my sim go downstairs with him.

Unfortunately my dog went out onto the balcony which I really don’t like. Hopefully she saves up enough soon to move into a house of her own.

I'm not playing an apartment but my guess would be that pets can't push the elevator buttons. You may have to take your dog for walks if you live in an apartment.

I usually take the dog for a walk and use the "encourage to do business" interaction or just Ieash them and do the same thing. I also tried sending a sim outside of the apartment building to see if they could call the dog down, and they could. So it seems that dogs can use the elevators the same as human sims. I think the family's cat did as well once, too, so I'm not sure why the "ask to go potty" interaction doesn't work when the dog is in the apartment.

I've also encountered an issue where I can't seem to actually potty train the dog. I take her out at least twice a day and have been for weeks in-game, but it still hasn't told me she's officially learned to do her business outside like it has with other dogs I've played. Unless this is a glitch, they don't seem to have thought through the whole housebreaking dogs in apartments situation.

"cmmeeks18;c-16153470" wrote:
What I'm wanting to know is why my dogs continue to poo in the house even after they've been trained to go outside, and why are they 'doing their business' on the porches. I have a house.

I think they were set up to use porches when they go outside because the roomba covers the porches too.

I think you have to walk them. Or you can set down the training paper and instruct them to "potty here".

i'm playing in SM. i have the sim leash the dog and click on a spot outside and select the encourage option. or i have the sim go downstairs and call the dog down. living in the apartment with a puppy was the pits. but that's the beauty of child sims. he always took the puppy out. i consider it's him doing chores

If your dog is outside, ask them to potty. If they are on a leash, then encourage them to go. You know they are learning when they get this symbol over their head:

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Oh, and their traits matter. The stubborn trait may make them next to impossible to potty train. Smart dogs will potty train quickly. Troublemaker trait may make them do it on purpose.

My sims live in San Myshuno in an apartment and they have a puppy who goes outside completely by himself, goes to the bathroom right on the sidewalk and comes back up