Please can you answer a question i have a staffy bitch now 18mnths old she has never been allowed upstairs in rooms for the sheer fact of dog hair on the beds she is allowed run of the house apart from that. Today after a walk we get in she made a bee line for upstairs where there is a gate at top of stairs which someone didnt shut so she decided my kids room was best option and did a wee on my 8 yr olds bed left my 10 yr old daughters is there a reason for this i am devastated as i thought she was well trained etc

:-D  Don't be devastated, nothing to do with training, it is proberbly a dominance thing, which is why she has urinated on your sons bed, just make sure that the gate is always closed and that she knows the upstairs is your domain and not hers, problem solved. :-)

I have an 8 year old bitch that will do this given a chance. :( Not very pleasant, but we have all learnt to keep the bedroom doors firmly closed. My dog (her son) has never done it so I wonder if it is a bitch thing? ;)

my staffy bitch gets on all the furniture and beds in my house but if she stays at my mum and dads she isn't allowed on anything.  My dad was decorating upstairs one day when she went to stay there and the dog was left downstairs so had no-one to play with for a few hours.  My dad thought all was well until he went to bed exhausted after an evening of decorating and got a soggy wet leg.  He was totally raging, especially since she peed right in the centre of the bed and it had soaked through so there wasn't a dry spot at all!  Sorry I've been of no help but your post brought back some funny memories for me.

I have a 16month old staffy bitch she does exactly the same on my daughters bed but her mum has never done it on any furniture nor have my staffy boys, just her.

I have a 3 yr old castrated GSD dog. Don't ever say 'never'! I would have put money on Zak never peeing on the beds. He is very, very clean & although he cocks his leg outside he has never peed in the house.It is a treat to be allowed upstairs as I try to keep it out of bounds. Not until we were on holiday & my 20 year old daughter had a girlfriend round one evening. Zak ran upstairs & according to my daughter, deliberately peed on her bed. He jumped on to it & did it right in the middle of the bed! The girls had been up there & my daugters friend did own a dog. I couldn't beleive it when my daugter told me. Just goes to show that you never know entirely what a dog might do?

Beano did it once.
Me and mum went to crufts and left dad looking after the dogs and kids. He shut them in my bedroom late on the friday night, went back on the saturday morning and Beano had weed slap bang in the middle of my bed, on top of a bedspread and quilt :(
Got back from crufts to find all my bed stuff in the washing machine!!!!
Since then if I have ever left them, I always leave them in the kitchen, as dont want that again LOL
Lea :)

funny how they do it right in the middle of the bed so theres no way you could even sleep round the damp patch on the mattress (not that I ever would of course!) :rolleyes: 

Thanks all for your help she is not allowed up and i have made a note so the kids do not leave the gate open

Its not 'dominance' ie not 'im more important than you i rule this house', (and i would say that as i dont believe that dogs think that way at all).

What it IS likely to be, is dogs needing to spread their scent around to feel like they belong, in young dogs its not particularly rare, some of my dogs have done it here, my friends bitch went through a horrendous phase of running into my room and peeing either on my bed or on dirty clothes on the floor, she grew out of this though, as did my own dogs.

Notably the cases in this thread mention dogs doing it when allowed into places not normally open to them, nad diong it when left alone and presumably anxious, backing up my idea that its to do with feeling like they belong and NOT to do with wanting to become dominant over anyone.

Very badly anxious and stressed dogs will sometimes do this in their OWN beds.

Em