Why Does my dog piss on my bed?

• "Why Does my dog piss on my bed?"

🐕Reason 1: Because he has ACCESS to the bed.

🐕Reason 2: Because YOU have not spent a year in a training class getting COACHED on HOW to train HIM.

🐕Reason 3: Because he CAN get onto your bed. (What breed or breed-mix is he?)

🐕Reason 4: Because its mattress smells of urine - whether YOU can smell it or not, HE can smell its pong.

🐕Reason 5: Because he CAN piss - and that pong stimulates 1 or both of:

(a) his urge to reduce the pressure in his bladder, and/or

(b) his urge to MARK HIS territory to keep rivals away.

• "For one he's not even allowed on my bed (and he's desexed), and I have very strict lines that I reinforce,"

Sounds like a load of bull, to me.

🐕Reason 6: HE doesn't KNOW that he's not allowed on there. Why can't YOU understand that he DOESN'T know that?

🐕Reason 7: Being neutered has NOTHING to do with urination.

🐕Reason 8: You haven't told us HOW you "reinforce" those allegedly "very strict lines" - you haven't even told us what those "lines" are! But they are obviously INEFFECTIVE!

🐕Reason 9: Whatever you are doing is obviously TOTALLY INEFFECTIVE and TOTALLY NOT UNDERSTOOD by your dog, and so your dog should NOT BE INSIDE THE HOUSE. See the photo of my dog pens as soon as my outside dogs hear that I am up.

• "he's allowed on the trundle (I have a very tall bed and I use the trundle as a step) but not the bed where I speel."

I don't know any word "speel". I do know a word "spiel": https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definit... - but it has nothing to do with a bed!

Until I read your question,"trundle" was always a VERB: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definit... - but to use it as a NOUN you should have have typed "trundle bed" both times.

• "He knows "get down" and follows it well and I reward him for that. "

🐕Reason 10: Me thinketh that HE thinketh that he IS allowed on the bed, and he gets up there in order to EARN a reward by getting down on command. In other words: Your idea of "training" is actually producing the OPPOSITE of what you want!

Until YOU have learned how to train him, he should NOT be allowed in your bedroom. Probably not ANYWHERE in the house except while 100% WATCHED by you so that YOU learn his "Wanna go toilet" signal and IMMEDIATELY take him to the fenced back yard (shut the back door behind you) then YOU stand boringly still & silent until he remembers what he wanted to do, so DOES it - whereupon you come alive with the praise-&-reward sequence. If his name is Bobby, the praise part will be "Bobby went TOILET! Clever Bobby TOILET! Good boy Bobby went TOILET!"

In my routine, my dogs are not allowed on any furniture. When inside, their feet stay on the floor - OR ELSE! When only one is coming, it is allowed in the cab of the ute. If more than one, they go in the canopy of the tray

💥Q1: WHAT feebly ineffective tools do you currently use to "reinforce" that he is NOT allowed on your furniture?

💥Q2: What DETERRENTS & what PUNISHMENTS do you use?

💥Q3: What REWARDS do you supply WHILE he is obeying you?

(Your voice should be part of both Q2's and Q3's answers. Try to describe the difference between those voices.)

• "So I have three dogs, one that is eight and she is allowed on my bed, always has been and two brothers that are almost two years. They are both toilet trained more or less."

Translation to ENGLISH:

"They are NOT yet reliably HOUSE-CLEAN. I'm NOT a thinking adult."

👺 WARNING: The odds are HIGH that the two 2-year-olds will attack and kill the oldie in about 1 year's time.

2 males at about 3 years are really feeling their impulses to be "THE BIG BOSS". They're about as "prickly" and thoughtless as teenaged boys!

And you are definitely NOT yet a COMPETENT TRAINER!

FYI: My last home-bred GSD was house trained the afternoon her last litter-mate was collected at 8 weeks old by his buyer. She then slept in the house every night until her 3-years-older "cousin" was so old (12+) as to need to be inside the house at night. I don't normally let pups sleep inside at night, but Offa earned it. Most GSDs are intelligent enough to be house-clean in a week to 10 days, provided their pet-human has more brains than the GSD has. But that house-training has to be ONE pooch inside at a time, with their HUMAN concentrating 100% on the pup the whole time it's awake & inside. Bed-making, cooking, dishes, laundry, reading, tv, vacuuming etc have to wait until the pup is asleep or outside.

• "Sometimes if I don't take them out quick enough in the morning one might crap inside but usually their pretty good."

That should be "they're" (pronounced as "thay-rr"); NOT "their" or "there".

• "Except for the one that pees on my bed. We were going well, it had been maybe two months since the last incident and then I changed my sheets and that night he pissed on my bed. Then I put up a sleeping bag to sleep in and he peed on that too. Then I used my brothers sleeping bag and the next morning I take them out, they do their stuff and I come in, a few minutes later I hear the dog in question jump from the bed and lo and behold he's peed on the only sleeping bag I had left. Good thing it was waterproof.My question is why the flip does he keep peeing on my bed?!"

🔹Because he CAN.

🔹And because he is claiming YOU and YOUR bed(s) as part of HIS pack & territory - the term is "marking". He is scent-marking what HE is claiming as HIS, and will soon be confident enough to ATTACK any pooch that attempts to use that "territory" - maybe eventually any PERSON who attempts to touch/use it.

🔹And because YOU are ineffective so should NOT have more than ONE dog until you are COMPETENT with that ONE. You should think hard about where the other 2 are to go.

• "How do I stop it?"

As you haven't worked out how with the 8 years old one - the one that you & your parents have presumably had for EIGHT YEARS (6 of them before the other 2 arrived) to get sorted out, but HAVEN'T DONE SO, I regret that you are NOT yet competent to have more than ONE of the trio.

So step 1 is to pass 2 of them to 2 people who ARE competent. Hardest to rehome (because of his dominating nature) will be the male that is claiming YOUR bed as HIS territory. Until we know his BREED(s) I cannot make any recommendation about him.

💥Q4: What is your AGE? What is your GENDER? ("Rixons" has no gender.)

💥Q5: What BREED or breed-mix is the 8-years-old?

💥Q6: What BREED or breed-mix is each 2-years-old?

💥Q7: DO you have transport to & from a weekly class?

(Unless you can get to a competent weekly TRAINING CLASS I have severe doubt that you can get even ONE of these 3 pooches up to an adequate level of being house-clean.)  

• "He knows that it's wrong and he knows that it's good to pee outside, he doesn't poop inside, so why tf. Please hjelp."

Be logical. IF he knew it was wrong he wouldn't DO it. Therefore there are 2 possibilities....

#1: He DOESN'T "know" it's wrong. In which case YOU have to make some major changes in your methods & techniques.

#2: He has a bladder problem. In which case your vet needs to examine him and make a preliminary diagnosis. There is more than one u.t.i. (urinary tract infection) and so the vet has to work out which to treat first (because it SEEMS to be the most likely cause). Your vet will set a time&date for you to bring the dog back to be re-checked, and will then decide whether to continue with the first treatment or to switch to a treatment more suitable for whichever cause is the 2nd-most-likely.

Les the aged Kiwi - first pup in 1950, GSD trainer & breeder as of Easter

Your dog consider himself higher status than you.

Possibly because you don't allow him to sleep in the bed, he thinks it is okay to pee there.  Dogs normally don't pee or poop where they sleep.  If you don't want him to sleep there, at least rub him all over with a towel and put that on the bed so he smells his scent there.

But the way this is going, I am suspecting that he may have a urinary tract infection so that he has to pee often.  Now I always treat this at home with Ascorbic Acid the cheap form of Vitamin C, and the only kind that works for this.  I give 50mg per 10 pounds of body weight every day for 5 days.  If this doesn't work you can try the vet.  BTW it words for humans too.  

Peeing on your bed has nothing to do with house training at all...  this is marking up and he will continue to do it unless all the dogs are kept off the bed and possibly shut from the bedroom now he's started it. 

(c/p)  Dogs urinate on your bed because it hides their scent in your – what the dog considers to be – the smell of their protector and companion. This makes Fido feel less exposed.Jan 26, 2018

Why Does My Dog Pee on the Bed? - PBS Pet Travelwww.pbspettravel.co.uk › blog › dog-pee-bed

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"They are both toilet trained more or less" They either ARE or they are NOT toilet trained and at two years old if still tioleting in the house they are not. You have two, 2yr olds ( newly adults), and 3 dogs in the household, one which has different rules to the others ( which is OK) however you need to enforce these rules correctly and that means not allowing those 2yr olds in the bedroom, as they are being stressed out and challenging for pack higherachy of the older dog...in the dogs mind 'top dog' gets the best sleeping position, that should be the human, not the dog and anyone that allows their dog to sleep on their bed needs to understand dog pack mentality otherwise they face the same issues as you are

He doesn't 'know' it is wrong, he is marking the bed to try to claim it as his, it is a dog pack challenge and potentially also challenging you as you are not being a 'leader' of the pack.....the 2yr old dogs are stressed/anxious which you are encouraging/allowing because of pack order mentality and you still have training to do with them

Keep your bedroom door CLOSED when the dog is not being supervised. Problem solved.

 One theory is.....The fact you allow the female  on your bed and more than likely the male is the most dominant of the 3 dogs and he will want to put HIS scent over where the female has been sleeping, if he is not allowed to sleep there as well. 

Do NOT allow the dog on the `trundle` at any time either.

IN fact keep ALL the dogs off the trundle AND off the bed. 

You don`t say whether you live in a bedsit or a house with plenty of rooms so its hard to give any real positive advice.

Also don`t leave it so late in the mornings to let your dogs outside to relieve themselves, if one is having occasional accidents. 

Being `toilet trained` MORE OR LESS....is not good enough. 

maybe he is getting back at you as you have very strict lines you reinforce

It's a dominance thing. You may think you're in charge but he doesn't think so. It's also because it's a scent thing. 

There are many different theories. Try doing some research.

It could be jealousy that one dog is allowed on the bed and the other two aren’t. 

However if this is a new behaviour your dog needs to be checked by a vet to make sure things are okay.