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 will require a totally different approach in each circumstance and get that wrong at this time and you may make the issue worse. See if you can identify the explanation for dog peeing in the house using the questions below.
Could it be connected to your dogs health?Because if you think it could be, you need to visit your vet as soon as possible and a short course of medicine might be the solution..
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 indications of your dog needing to urinate? Try observing your dog more closely, and try letting your dog out more frequently 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're suffering from 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 will not be put off by the simple fact the his bad dog behavior gets him into your bad books so long as he's getting your attention. It quickly becomes a little bit 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 sort of urinating in the house, you'll need to find out how to be the pack leader, because the above was a real instance of a direct challenge and her dogs were making an attempt to find 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 once you've gone out and they're left alone, separation anxiety is most likely to be the cause. What they are doing makes sense to them, because by urine marking the house they're showing you where to come back to. The failing in their plan is they are assuming 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.
Answer 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 will require a totally different approach in each circumstance and get that wrong at this time and you may make the issue worse. See if you can identify the explanation for dog peeing in the house using the questions below.
Could it be connected to your dogs health?Because if you think it could be, you need to visit your vet as soon as possible and a short course of medicine might be the solution..
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 indications of your dog needing to urinate? Try observing your dog more closely, and try letting your dog out more frequently 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're suffering from 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 will not be put off by the simple fact the his bad dog behavior gets him into your bad books so long as he's getting your attention. It quickly becomes a little bit 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 sort of urinating in the house, you'll need to find out how to be the pack leader, because the above was a real instance of a direct challenge and her dogs were making an attempt to find 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 once you've gone out and they're left alone, separation anxiety is most likely to be the cause. What they are doing makes sense to them, because by urine marking the house they're showing you where to come back to. The failing in their plan is they are assuming 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.
Answer 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 writer faced the issue of her very own rescue dog urinating in the house due to dog anxiety. To get more tips and information about dog anxiety, inlcuding a free report on dog anxiety symptomsclick to head to the site.