I was hanging out some washing this week (yes there was a tiny bit of respite from the rain).

As I moved a little and looked down, I was just in time, as my boy was lifting his leg to wee up my leg!!!!

He is now 7 always been a bit stressy but no problems at present, so what on earth is his problem? The following morning when I came down he came to greet me from outside, he was wet and cold! Why had he wanted to stay out of doors in the cold and rain?

He has been fine and no odd behaviour since, but he does have his daft times, I wonder if to put it bluntly he is just 'daft'.

Any comments?

He is well, as far as I can tell and perfectly happy at other times, out walking and generally.

Karen

Did your legs look like tree? Is 7 yrs old in your breed? I was thinking maybe some dementia or such.

I wonder if something you couldn't hear had spooked him, or maybe something on a walk just upset him a teeny bit?

Remy weed up me in December - he'd just met Linc.  No reaction to Linc at all, just ignored him, but he still felt the need to wee up my leg!  Never done it since, and only once before about 8 years ago when he was a pup.

Have you checked his sight ? :-)

A bitch on heat?
What is like when out on a walk?

Buster worried me a few weeks back, he likes to stick firmly to our standard route but he started to tank off in a direction we've never been in. He seemed a bit agitated, trying to cross a stream that would take us back home. This went on for a couple of days, it was cutting his walks shorter which was leading to him getting a limp (arthtitis in elbows).
I was very firm with him when he tried to veer off our route onto his new odd detour and then I noticed that he was scratting and scentmarking all over the place, also by paying close attention to him I could see he was catching the scent of somthing in the direction he had been trying to run to (head in air, sniffing in that direction).
By seeing his behviour on the entire usual route, I could see that the scent that was effecting him was obviously at the start of the feild part of the walk, as further into the feild we got the more normall he was, as we got back to the 'start' of the feild he was being odd again (we walk in a loop and finish where we start).

I've seen Buster, plenty of times get the smell of a bitch, but this was nothing like other times apart from when he was at home he (he was acting at home like he does when he's got the smell of a bitch, a bit hard to explain, quiet but with energy bubbling under the surface like he's waiting for something) . I had initially though he was on the trail of a dead body or something as he dragged me into a wooded area and tried to follow the 'trail' into thick undergrowth - it really shook me up!

I don't know if it was the smell of a bitch or not, but it was definatly something he could smell that was effecting him, but I took a few days to be sure it was his nose that was alerting him to whatever it was.

He still keeps trotting off to that area, but now I can re-call him from it easy - infact I think he's deliberatley going that way now just to get a biccy on re-call *rollyeyes*

Dogs noses are much more powerfull than ours, your boy may have got the scent of something?

> Any comments?

The leg cocking incident sounds like some relaxing of inhibitions - would be hard to say why really. And the staying outside in the cold and rain could indicate a little disorientation. Again, I couldn't hazard a guess as to why that should be. Both things could suggest something neurological. Or as you say, he could be just plain daft! Hope he goes on OK.

Thanks guys,
His breed are long lived, so he is a youngster really.

He weed up daughters leg in the ring when he was young and stressy but he doesn't show or do anything to cause him any stress these days.

He is a stressy misery, alot like an eeyore dog  :(  He only loves us.
If he never had to be involved with any other other animal 2 legged or 4 he would be happy.

He has also been inclined before to want to be out of doors occasionally, even in foul weather.
Just not for a couple of years probabaly.
Going with daft at present.

Karen

Perhaps he didn't mean to wee up your leg and was aiming for something you were standing on/over.  My dogs often wee over invisible scents in our garden and they've all inadvertantly wee d  over each other a few times.

We have a lot of hedgehog movement in our garden at the moment which is very interesting for the dogs and means they can refuse to come in at night unless I go and get them...  Perhaps your lad has been wildlife watching :)

I'd like to think that but............I was free standing as it were at the washing line, nothing else around to aim at!

The wildlife watching, perhaps it is a very small area but maybe he was just 'star gazing' .

Karen :)

>they've all inadvertantly wee d  over each other a few times.<br />

Has definitely happened here.  Almost as if 2 or 3 have smelled the same thing, wanted to scent it, and couldn't wait long enough for the other dog to move on.