I brought this up before, but we're still having zero luck. We got a puppy a few months ago. He is now about 8 months old. He absolutely, completely, 100% refuses to poop outside while on a leash that is held by a human. He will pee outside with no issues, then as soon as you bring him back inside, he will find a spot in the house where no one can see him and poop on the floor. At the suggestions of both the lounge and a professional trainer, we dedicated a weekend to taking him outside for a good 20-30 minutes at a time and if he didn't poop, he went back in his kennel. Just because it felt a bit mean after awhile, we stopped putting him in the kennel and would keep him on his leash indoors and clip the leash to our belt so he couldn't wander off. On a typical day where he would poop 3-4 times, he never pooped once. He went well over 24 hours. Then we did it again the following day with the same result. If you leave him alone, he will poop in the house. If you put him on a long tether in the backyard and leave him alone, he will poop there. But if a human is holding his leash, he WILL. NOT. POOP. Ever. I know the key is to praise him like he just won WWII when he does. But we can't get to that point. This is an absolute, complete refusal to ever, EVER poop while on a leash. The point is we would like to enroll him in a training program to help with some other (minor, but still important to resolve) behavioral issues. But one of the trainer's requirements is that he be fully trained to pee and poop outdoors while on a leash. They can't just turn a dog loose outside for insurance purposes. We're at a complete loss for how to get anywhere with this that doesn't involve taking a week off of work and tethering someone to the dog 24 hours a day. I really thought going a whole weekend would have done the trick, but that was an absolute failure. Any suggestions? For some backstory, I've never had a dog before this one. So I have no experience or basis of comparison to work with.