Lewis Moon Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 Cerbie pees on his foot. There I said it.... Cerbie, my neutered ~7 month old male (whom I love to pieces) has a weird tendancy to pee on one of his front legs/feet. He's not doing it on purpose but sometimes the leg is in the way and it gets it. At the very least, the leg is in the "splash zone". He only cocks his leg a bit and seems completely oblivious to it when it happens. I, however, am not. A towel sits on the back patio to wipe him down. He was neutered very early by the rescue where we got (8 weeks or sooner) him if that is a factor. I don't know if there is anything we can do training wise but it would be nice if it were to cease.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliepoudrier Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 Cerbie is not unusual in this. It's just one of those things. J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushdoggie Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 not unusual: I had a Dalmatian who did it. He mostly quit when he got to hiking his leg when he peed (changed the trajectory) but still occasionally did it. Does Cerbie hike at all? I know he is neutered but when he gets a little older he may start lifting his leg (heck, my *girl* dog does). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Moon Posted April 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 not unusual: I had a Dalmatian who did it. He mostly quit when he got to hiking his leg when he peed (changed the trajectory) but still occasionally did it. Does Cerbie hike at all? I know he is neutered but when he gets a little older he may start lifting his leg (heck, my *girl* dog does). He only hikes a leg maybe 3" off the ground. A weak effort compared to the full "banking airplane" stance I've seen in other dogs. I'm not really worried about it but it does elicit a lot of "Ewwwwww!" responces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretBC Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 Some boys are just built wrong -- Our old Westie would always pee on himself. Luke does it only occasionally. Kaiser has a habit I consider worse -- He hikes his leg to pee on a bush, then turns around, brushes against it and pees again. Gee, thanks for getting pee all over yourself, buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodo Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 He still has some growing to do, if you're lucky, maybe his front and back legs will grow further apart! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scomona Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Shiloh pees on himself almost every time. He is not neutered and a year old. It is annoying but he cleans it off...really there is not much we could do about it. You're not alone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbc1963 Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 My dog pees so high that occasionally he's almost tipped himself over. Also embarrassing. And my biggest embarrassing confession of the week: we went to visit my parents. My brother's dog had stayed there for a week. I went to see what Buddy was up to, and he was UP TO OVERMARKING THE COUCH WITH HIS OWN SCENT, if you know what I mean. Grr. Luckily, it was the old couch in the playroom, where no one really hangs out. Oy. Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anda Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 He needs more miles (or gallons) of experience And what's up with them starting to walk while still peeing - you know, he's got so much to do, so many other places to mark... who has time to wait till the jet's over?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap-n-Jo Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Ewww, yeah. Thanks for an opportunity to vent on this topic! If Jo (our girl) is sniffing a bush, Jake will go over to sniff it too. He'll then hike his leg high and pee on both the bush and Jo's head! I suppose I should be glad I'm not down there sniffing the bush too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSmitty Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 My 3 year old dog, Alex, still pees on his front legs regularly. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyer Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Colt did this when he was first starting to lift his leg. He grew out of it. Has much better aim now, though like any male has his moments of missing the target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCjetta Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Our aussie does this too but only in our yard. In the yard he doesn't lift his leg high, he sort of does half squat/half lift a leg and the angle is just right so that it hits his front leg. Out on a walk, he lifts his leg high and it misses his leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njnovice Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Ewww, yeah. Thanks for an opportunity to vent on this topic! If Jo (our girl) is sniffing a bush, Jake will go over to sniff it too. He'll then hike his leg high and pee on both the bush and Jo's head! I suppose I should be glad I'm not down there sniffing the bush too. The first time I walked Mick & Sinead on a coupler, he peed on her head. They've sorted things out since then. The most embarassing is Mick is always that kid who pees in the pool at the dog park. Yep, he'll be lounging just fine in the water, but if another dog tries to join him, he will do one of two things, snarl until the dog leaves OR stand up, lift his leg high and pee right in the pool, THEN lay back down in the water... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacks_Mom Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 My Jack does it too.... It's weird he does not hike his leg to pee he still squats, and he hikes his leg to cover....And there is a towl at the back door for those incidents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
in2adventure Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Grady is two and still pees on himself He also walks away while still peeing if something seems more interesting....which in his case is most everything in life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Moon Posted April 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Thanks folks. It's great for a n00b to learn that his pooch isn't some weirdo. ...of course Cerbie couldn't care less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WendyW Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 My coonhound has always peed on himself. He has kind of learned to switch positions when he starts to pee on himself but doesn't always do it. He then licks his front leg to clean it off! My border collie/mix? puppy jumped up on the couch one day to see me and peed right on my hand and leg. My fiance laughed for an hour about that. I didn't find it quite so funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblock Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Zorro is five years old and there's nothing wrong with his back legs but he usually squats when he pees instead of hiking his leg. His foster from the rescue group said that could be a sign he was neutered at a very young age. ge. Don't know if that's true, but an interesting theory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooky Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Zorro is five years old and there's nothing wrong with his back legs but he usually squats when he pees instead of hiking his leg. His foster from the rescue group said that could be a sign he was neutered at a very young age. ge. Don't know if that's true, but an interesting theory. I think the leg lifting is a learned behavior that has little to do with neuter age. Odin (and my previous dog) were neutered at young ages (<6 months, almost pediatric in Odin's case), and both lift/lifted their legs. Odin did the "puppy squat" until this Xmas, when he stayed with the dogsitter's family, which included a pack of 4 other males, for 2 weeks. Now he's a veteran leg-lifter and he also marks, as in, he likes to save it on walks and pee some on especially smell areas rather than just emptying his bladder all at once. He learned from watching them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretBC Posted April 28, 2010 Report Share Posted April 28, 2010 Yup, Luke was a squatter until Kaiser came along --- He still often pees like a horse, but he's gotten to be a major marker on off-leash walks. It's kind of funny because he'll mark on something and Kaiser will high-tail it over to pee on top of whatever Luke pee'd on. Too bad Luke is 80 lbs to Kaiser's 16 lbs, so guess who has more capability to mark stuff? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap-n-Jo Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 I think the leg lifting is a learned behavior that has little to do with neuter age. Odin (and my previous dog) were neutered at young ages (<6 months, almost pediatric in Odin's case), and both lift/lifted their legs. Odin did the "puppy squat" until this Xmas, when he stayed with the dogsitter's family, which included a pack of 4 other males, for 2 weeks. Now he's a veteran leg-lifter and he also marks, as in, he likes to save it on walks and pee some on especially smell areas rather than just emptying his bladder all at once. He learned from watching them! When we first got our girl, Jo, she peed like a proper lady dog. But then after a couple of months of walking with our former male dog, Zap, she started lifting her leg to pee on bushes too! What do they call that, am-pee-dextrous? Her usual style was to lift her leg, then sort of swing it around over the bush into a final semi-squat position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrayburn Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Both of my girls will hike a leg to pee on something interesting. Of course Ben will too so there's an entire pack heirarchy order of pee that comes into play when we pass something really interesting on a walk - Pip, Nell and Ben sniff and pee in order. If Ben gets overzealous, he pees on the girls' heads and then repees after they have peed. Fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njnovice Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 I almost got my foot peed on by my girl dog today. Fortunately, I have pretty quick feet, because I was wearing flip flops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mona Howard Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 I'm glad to hear everyone else has these problems. When my girl Kelly squats to pee, my boy Willy sometimes can't wait for her to finish so he pees on her while she's still squatting! Kelly has gotten wise to him now and will take off when she sees him coming. Once she even bit him. Serves him right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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