Hi everyone, we have a problem with our 20mth Boxer, it seems to be any time we go out either for a doctor's app or anywhere our dog if she get's the chance pee's on our bed :( , she has'nt done it for a while but we just got her speyed 10 days ago and we had a doctors app our son was still in his bed (as did'nt start work till later in day) after we got her speyed we let her sleep on the bed in the spare room, so when we came back from the doctor's our dog was acting the way she does when she has done something wrong and true to form there she had pee'd on the bed in the spare room, was wondering if any body else had this prob and is there anyway to solve it.
ps, she sleeps in the house as we prefer it like that (not for much longer but if she keeps this up :(  )
Thanking you in advance
Rose

Hi Rose,
Is there no way you can keep her out of the bedrooms altogether? So she doesn't get the chance to do it. Perhaps limit where she goes in the house, confine to a couple of rooms maybe? Does she do it anywhere else in the house or is it only on the bed? You say that when you came back she was acting as she does when she has done something wrong,have you been chastising her for it, as this can sometimes exacerbate a problem and magnify it to such an extent you get into a vicious circle syndrome. I know it isn't easy to always ignore repetitive wrong behaviour, my boy used to open the kitchen door when we were out and go upstairs into my bedroom and drag all of my underwear,shoes, pillow, you name it, downstairs and pee on it, I stopped it by getting a lock on the kitchen door :D I don't know exactly what causes them to do, someone else on here will no doubt have a more experienced view but I have my own theories. Sorry I can't be of more help, good luck.

Hi hairypooch :), Thx for replying, when Kim (our Boxer) did it before it was on my bed and also our son's bed, I did tell her off and she knew she had done wrong, i don't go out of the house much maybe to the doctors or just over the road to the shop, so i'm always at home with her, when i come back it's as if i've been away a mth :s the way she jumps up and licks all over my face, so i don't know if it has to do with me cus i go out on the rare occasion, we are going on Holiday me and hubby( for 1 week) and i dread to think what she will get up to, my son will be looking after her so i know all the doors will be left open, (but she can open the doors anyway, if they open in the way, it's my hubby who gets more angry with her, but for some reason i think it has to do with me when i go out of the house for longer than half an hour :(
Thanks again for replying hairypooch
Rose

It's very possible if she is so used to you being around, that she is suffering from separation anxiety :( .

Lindsay

Shut the bedroom doors is the best way to stop it, no amount of scolding will stop it if she does it only when you are out, you are just teaching her that when you come back you will shout at her, and that in turn will make it worse. So shut the door so you can praise her when you get home.

Hi Jackie H, I do shut the bedroom doors as i said in my other post she can open the doors, should i be praising her for wetting on the beds ?
Rose

hi

use a dog gate across the doorway of a room downstairs ie the kitchen my boxer is still young and will occasionally pee on the rug when she's left if i don't catch her doing it and i come back to it i don't scold her i just wipe it up and don't say a word then let her out in the garden and when she pee's i then praise her, i know if i left her unattended to roam the house she would reck it, and probably pee with excitement as she tore the beds to  pieces, so the only way really to stop it is to confine her to a room while your out.

j

Hi jackalyn, Thanks for replying and also the advise, i'm sitting here lol at what you said about your Boxer peeing with delight as she tore the bed to shreds :) , think i will be taking advice from some of these posts
Thanks again
Rose

If you live in a two-storey house you could put a stairgate at the bottom of the stairs. If you are in a bungalow you could either turn the handles upside down so they need to be lifted, or change the bedroom door-handles to knobs. Are any of these ideas practicable?

Hi Jeangeanie, Thanks for replying, and yes i would think about the stairgate that sounds very practical, and there's me thinking stairgates were only for toddlers :s
Thanks again
Rose

Put a small bolt or cabin hook on the doors. No it would be silly to praise her the same way as it is pointless to shout at her, if it is caused because she is upset by your going out the shouting will only make matters worse. That is my experience but you will do what you chose. IMO you would be best to try and get her used to your leaving her from time to time and if you really cant secure the doors then may be you should consider a cage.

Hi Jackie H,Thanks for replying and for the advice, that would be a good idea as well the bolts or cabin hooks, Thanks for the advice Jackie, I did take advice from you and some of the other ppl on CD, I got kim speyed rather than let her have pups for other ppl's benefits, so Thankyou also for that, she's doing Great now 10 days have passed from she was speyed and she's running about like nothing happened to her:),
Rose

Hi Lindsay, Thanks for your reply, any tips on how to overcome this as i'm mostly housebound because of my health :S , Thanks again
Rose

Hallo Rose

First of all it may not be separation anxiety - its quite complex and is often the case if, say, your dog follows you everywhere and seems at all anxious if you go out. Sumptoms can include messing, destruction, barking etc. It can also be linked up to over zealous house training which again is why it's best to ignore a dog's mess and teach it what you do want rather than what you don't.

Maybe do a google search; also try www.pets.f9.co.uk and go to shop, book and there is a booklet for just £3 on separation anxiety... again, do bear in mind it may not be this, but if she spends so much of the day withyou, it may be.

Hth a bit

Lindsay

Following on from this thread. does anyone know why they wee on our beds. Our young TT bitch (7 months old) does it, if given the chance. I now shut all bedroom doors (bungalow). Is it a dominance thing with them? Her dam also did it once but that was all. She has done it twice now on our bed and twice on our sons bed but it isn't a separation thing with her. Sooooo does anyone know what causes them to do it??

Hello,

We do have a Border Collie, she is 2 years old. She does wee and even poop in the kid's bed and our's. Oh don't get me wrong for not going out. I'm a homestay mom and i do go out with her 4 times daily. I can not let her roaming in our house anymore. Tomorrow i will put up the gates on the stairs and that's it. When we do go away for shopping or bringing the kid's to school she does go in a crate. I do wonder if this is not genetic . A normal dog does not do this kind of behavior. Other wise she is health wise fine.

Mikki