jfriel

Help! My two year old Basset is randomly peeing in the house. He is potty trained. he will cry at the door when he has to go out. Last night for no reason right in front of us, he jumped up on couch, grabbed blanket to nest it under him and just starts peeing on the blanket!!! Why? Sometimes I go upstatirs to find at SOME time he has peed on my bed!!!!
HELP!!

mhvonalmen8908

Is he neutered? If not he may just be marking. If he is then I don't have any solution for you. Sorry! Good luck with it though!

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ChucksMom

I'm sure everyone will have great advice for you...I haven't had that problem with our basset but did with a dog I had many years ago. The vet said he had crystals in his bladder. They gave him a special food and within a few days he was back to normal.

CatherineM

Could be a bladder infection.

MollyMcFrecklesMom

Wouldn't hurt to have a vet visit...just to rule out a medical issue.

Mikey T

provide that there are no health issue I can offer a very simple explaination whether it is right or not we'll/ never know because it is not possible to read a dogs mind. but here is a behavioral explaination.

When dog go it is for a lack of a better term pleasurable experience the relief of presure etc. So the behavior is self rewarding in a sence. Dog will then associate this pleasure with teir surounding whats under there feet etc. This is generally called a substrate preference. So this dog has developed a prefferene for the texture of a blanket cloth under his feet when he goes that simple. No when this subtrate is not available he will go with the best available alternative which is the grass outside. So you see your interpretation that the dog is house trained because some times he asked to go out is incorrect. The only way to correct this substrate preferrence is not allow him access to this substrate . provide a more appropriate substrate and don;t allow access to the inappropriate substrate until the dog has clearly demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt he has developed an substrate preference for the appropriate substrate.


That said some times dog who have a strong subtrate prefference for an appropriate substrate still have accident. This is often cause by environmental condition that dramatical effect the preferred substrate For basset this is often rain or dew making the grass wet. This again means relizing the problem is realted to the conditions outside, strickly monitoring the dog to prevent accident and developing a substrate preference for grass even if wet by take him out when its wet and remaining so until he acutual does what you took him out to do.

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So how do you know he needs to go out vs he wants to go out? This type oof mis interpretation can lead to all kinds of problems. So if the dog crys because he wnats to go out. runs around and the activity casue more urine to be produced and he goes. how do you tell the difference?

jfriel

He is nuetered and for the most part whenever he cries at the door and goes outside- he goes to the bathroom.Once in a while he cries just to go out and lay or dig up a treasure he has burried. We have a 12yr old lab and the two always go out together and go to the bathroom and then play. They are on a pretty good schedule since we work all day. I think the explanation of liking the feeling of the blanket sounds reasonable. He has a blanket in his crate which he has never peed on. He is out of crate all day and no incidents. He is in crate at night to sleep- which he goes in when he is ready. That is why I was so shocked last night when he peed right in front of us- Thank you all so much. I hope we can break this little habbit becaus he is such a great dog!!!