Could someone explain to my 12 year old niece why the dog has urinated on her bed the past 4 nights?

My oldest dog peed on my bed very regularly when he felt trapped in my room, I had had a roomate at the time that was locking him in the room for most of the day. Though you need to make the niece understand that she is smothering this dog and needs to leave him alone when he is asleep and be patient with him when he's not. Right now, he views her as a threat and a captor. She needs to earn his friendship/trust, once she's gotten that, then he'll come to her too. The hardest part is the patience, it takes time. (personally, she's lucky this dog isn't like my mom's, if my nephews tried anything she's doing to yours to my mom's dog, he'd bite them. To the nephews, the grouchy dog is off-limits, period.)

I will help you as much as I can. With 7 years of training and handling our four legged friends, The last place in the world for that dog to sleep is in a humans bed. Dogs are pack animals which means there is a Pack Leader somewhere. Which sounds to me like its him. It shouldn't be. That is an awfully huge role for a little guy like that to take on. Your dog does not want to be spoiled. He doesn't care about the $50 dollar bed you bought him. What he wants is structure. Rules, boundaries and limitations. Hes confused and unbalanced which is making him agitated and unpredictable. Hes growling as a warning. If hes growling, there's an issue here. He has claimed your niece's bed. He ownes it now. BAD MOVE!!! She needs to realize that hes a dog... Not a human. He doesn't want to be a human. But he shouldn't growl when picked up either. Go to APTD.COM to find a trainer in your area who can help you with learning Pack Leadership. Email me if you have any more questions.

Sounds like the dog is marking its territory. Your nieces parents need to take back control and let the dog know where it is in the pack, not letting it be leader of the pack.

You may consider not allowing him in her room for a day or 2 & give daughter some positive tools for handling mr cranky pants. Nobody likes to be disturbed when sleeping. My girl got cranky as heck when you disturbed her crib. She should treat him like a sleeping BEAR & wait for him to wake on his own. He'll forget the bad experience eventually and they should become buds. Good luck! Patience is key!

dont give it any water after 5:00 p.m., and put it outside right before you go to bed, and if that doesn't work, it is probably because the dog is scarred

Dominance.

Dog showing Dominance over that person

WOW WOW WOW.. You have soooo lost control.. YOU should be final authority in your own home.. Not leaving it up to me to tell your kid stuff...

Here's what you do.. You go buy a crate.. You let the dog out at night.. When he comes in, you have the crate in the kid's room beside her bed.. You place the puppy in the crate... and you tell the kid " LEAVE THE DOG IN THE CRATE " you go to bed..

In the morning, you get up and immediately head for the kid's room let the dog out and take him outside for a pee..

Who cares what the kid wants.. STOP THE KID from controlling you and the dog. If you allow the kid to do what she pleases you are going to end up with a dog that no one wants to be around.. You'll be back here in 6 mos complaining cause the dog nailed the kid cause he was sick and tired of her trying to carry him all over the place, and the bed smells like pee.. You will be looking to get him a new home..

Crate train the dog, bed train the kid... and sign up for some training classes, and in the meantime, go and sign up for some ' Backbone ' classes ...

Sorry to say but if a dog peeded on my childs bed that dog would need a new home. Shut her door at night.. put the dog up at night.. do not allow him to roam to her room. I don't hate animals but this is just not worth putting up with.. My priority would be my child. That dog would go..