| Scratches to go outside, but then runs away
We are new dog owners. Completely new. We usually have no idea of what to do next. For sit, stay, come, etc., we at least have our leash training sessions and we have an idea. But one of our dogs suddenly has the habit of needing to go out to take care of business and standing by the door. But as we approach to let him out, he sneaks/backs away and hides under the couch or hides in his crate. The habit came on suddenly. The only way we can get him to go out is when he's really been holdling it for a long time (sometimes he goes inside then) or to throw a tiny treat outside (which seems inherently wrong to me somehow). He's a Papillion - a breed I know nothing about, except that I'd heard they're hard to train.
Any technique or training imagery or opinons on this odd behaviour would really help as we learn how to live together with the dog (Reilly).
Will | 
Yes definitely tell everyone to be careful of that door. That very same thing happened with my parents collie. My older sister accdientally did it (shes a vet tech) and Misty had to have a cast on her tail. It cut her down to the bone the poor thing 
