Bess is 21 months old now and I don't know if she's going through a teenage rebellion stage.  Yesterday she was in the garden with me all afternoon and then got fed up after a few hours and started barking, so I took her indoors.  When I came in about half an hour later I had found that she had peed all over the wood floor in the conservatory.  She can hold her bladder for a good 12 hours overnight and she had been walked that morning so I know that she could have waited, plus she had the opportunity to have a wee on the lawn during the time she had been out.  Anyway, this morning I took her for her usual walk, she did what she needed to do and then we came home.  An hour later I had found that she had poo'd on my conservatory floor.  She knows to bark if she needs to go outside as she has woken me on occasion in the early hours of the morning by barking when she needed to be let out.  So do you think that these two incidents could be a coincidence or is she pushing the boundaries with me!

Is she due a season or has something changed in her home envioroment, if not I think a check up at the vets is called for.

> So do you think that these two incidents could be a coincidence or is she pushing the boundaries with me!

Sorry did not answer this bit, no I do not think this is anything to do with boundary pushing, dogs don't think like that, for some reason her learned habits are changing and that may be a season, a change in her home or could be physical changes.

No she's not due a season.  This morning she did seem constipated, so maybe that has something to do with today's incident. 

Could be, think I would ask the vet to take a look, don't want her to change her regular habits and decide the house is the place to go.

she seems to be marking her territory. Maybe you've got a fox coming onto the garden at night and she can smell where it's been. I knpw this may sound a bit odd, but if your OH pees in your garden around the boundaries, if you have got a fox, it will stop it coming into your garden. Obviously he has to do it at night so that the neighbours don't see him.

Saxon, he could always pee in a bottle and then you could go round 'sprinkling' it and no-one would be the wiser ;-) :-D

Or you could wee into a bottle (a funnell may help your aim) :-) :-) :-)

I never thought of that, my husband WILL be pleased.