It is so vital you find out why your dog's urinating in the house before you consider how you are going to treat the problem.
You'll need a completely different approach in every scenario and get it wrong at this point and you could make the issue worse. See if you can identify the reason for dog eliminating in the house using the questions below.
Could it be linked to your dogs health?Because if you believe it may be, you should visit your vet as fast as possible and a simple course of medication could be the answer.
Could it be your dogs age? An old dog might suffer with a little bit of incontinence, similarly a young puppy might not have mastered housetraining yet. Either way you'll have to show a bit of patience here.
Could it be a timing issue? Are your dogs urinating in house because you are leaving them a little to long before you let them out? Maybe you are missing the signals of your dog needing to eliminate? Try observing your dog more closely, and try letting your dog out more often and see if this does the trick.
If you've ruled out all of the reasons above there are four other reasons your dog may be urinating in the house
- For attention
- As a challenge
- As a submissive gesture
- Because they are suffering with dog separation anxiety
Dog Attention Seeking
Attention seeking behavior is reasonably common among dogs, some can be lovable like bringing you things, others can be pretty sneekly like carefully leaning on your legs to get you interested, while others can be a bit more in your face.
A dog desperate for attention won't be put off by the obvious fact the his bad dog behaviour gets him into hot water, as long as he is getting your attention. It quickly becomes part of a game.
The only way to cope with this sort of attention seeking is to disregard their actions totally. Not easy if you have just seen your dog urinating in the house, but essential if you'd like to clear that problem up. No amount of rubbing their nose in it'll help, so faced with this situation just put your dog out of the room without speaking to them or looking at them while you clear it up. Your dog will gives up urinating in the house if it does not get him the required result "your attention.
Who is the Pack Leader?
Recently a woman who had a few dogs, asked for help when one of her dogs came into the the lounge, cocked his leg and started peeing on the low table right in front of her. Much worse he was swiftly followed by another dog who started peeing in exactly the same place!
To stop this type of urinating in the house, you will need to learn the way to be the pack leader, as the above was an example of a direct challenge and her dogs were trying to work out who was leader of the pack.
Weirdly, urinating may also be a form of submission in dogs and you often see this in very scared dogs who might eliminate when you call them because they believe they're in trouble.
Separation Anxiety in Dogs
Nevertheless separation anxiety in dogs is perhaps one of the largest factors behind a normal, housebroken dog urinating in the house.
So if your dog only urinates in the house after you have gone out and they are left alone, separation anxiety is most likely to be the cause. What they are doing makes complete sense to them, because by scent marking the house they are showing you where to come back to. The issue in their plan is that they assume that your sense of smell is as good as theirs.
In the wild a dog urinating would act in 3 ways; to mark their boundaries, keep other packs away and let their own pack members know where they should come back to.
Solution to your Dog Urinating in the House.
You should now know whether you need to concentrate on house training your dog, cope with their attention seeking behaviour, meet their challenge for status, or sort out their anxiety problems. If you think your dogs urination issues are caused by separation anxiety, get our free report on separation anxiety by visiting our dog anxiety site. Key to stop the anxiety issues is learning the best way to be the pack leader.
You'll need a completely different approach in every scenario and get it wrong at this point and you could make the issue worse. See if you can identify the reason for dog eliminating in the house using the questions below.
Could it be linked to your dogs health?Because if you believe it may be, you should visit your vet as fast as possible and a simple course of medication could be the answer.
Could it be your dogs age? An old dog might suffer with a little bit of incontinence, similarly a young puppy might not have mastered housetraining yet. Either way you'll have to show a bit of patience here.
Could it be a timing issue? Are your dogs urinating in house because you are leaving them a little to long before you let them out? Maybe you are missing the signals of your dog needing to eliminate? Try observing your dog more closely, and try letting your dog out more often and see if this does the trick.
If you've ruled out all of the reasons above there are four other reasons your dog may be urinating in the house
- For attention
- As a challenge
- As a submissive gesture
- Because they are suffering with dog separation anxiety
Dog Attention Seeking
Attention seeking behavior is reasonably common among dogs, some can be lovable like bringing you things, others can be pretty sneekly like carefully leaning on your legs to get you interested, while others can be a bit more in your face.
A dog desperate for attention won't be put off by the obvious fact the his bad dog behaviour gets him into hot water, as long as he is getting your attention. It quickly becomes part of a game.
The only way to cope with this sort of attention seeking is to disregard their actions totally. Not easy if you have just seen your dog urinating in the house, but essential if you'd like to clear that problem up. No amount of rubbing their nose in it'll help, so faced with this situation just put your dog out of the room without speaking to them or looking at them while you clear it up. Your dog will gives up urinating in the house if it does not get him the required result "your attention.
Who is the Pack Leader?
Recently a woman who had a few dogs, asked for help when one of her dogs came into the the lounge, cocked his leg and started peeing on the low table right in front of her. Much worse he was swiftly followed by another dog who started peeing in exactly the same place!
To stop this type of urinating in the house, you will need to learn the way to be the pack leader, as the above was an example of a direct challenge and her dogs were trying to work out who was leader of the pack.
Weirdly, urinating may also be a form of submission in dogs and you often see this in very scared dogs who might eliminate when you call them because they believe they're in trouble.
Separation Anxiety in Dogs
Nevertheless separation anxiety in dogs is perhaps one of the largest factors behind a normal, housebroken dog urinating in the house.
So if your dog only urinates in the house after you have gone out and they are left alone, separation anxiety is most likely to be the cause. What they are doing makes complete sense to them, because by scent marking the house they are showing you where to come back to. The issue in their plan is that they assume that your sense of smell is as good as theirs.
In the wild a dog urinating would act in 3 ways; to mark their boundaries, keep other packs away and let their own pack members know where they should come back to.
Solution to your Dog Urinating in the House.
You should now know whether you need to concentrate on house training your dog, cope with their attention seeking behaviour, meet their challenge for status, or sort out their anxiety problems. If you think your dogs urination issues are caused by separation anxiety, get our free report on separation anxiety by visiting our dog anxiety site. Key to stop the anxiety issues is learning the best way to be the pack leader.
About the Author:
The author faced the problem of her own rescue dog urinating in the house because of dog anxiety. To get some more tips and info about dog anxiety, inlcuding a free report on dog anxiety symptomsclick to visit the site.
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