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Grr! Help me! Dog keeps peeing her beds!

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We have treated our two little Jack Russells like our children for the past 3 years, so we are trying to gently phase in some new rules before the baby is born. We've successfully managed to keep them from jumping on the bed in the spare room and now we're working on getting them to sleep in their own beds instead of ours. Well, our older dog does this already and has for a long time, but our little girl sleeps in between DH's legs. So I went to Target last night and bought them both new beds (she peed on her last one) and she immediately took to it and was laying around in it all night.

So we are getting ready for bed and DH puts her bed on ours so she will get used to it and she is in it and getting situated and then she pees! He said she wasn't squatting and it didn't look like she meant to pee in it, but she did. She doesn't have any other bladder control problems and is compeltely house broke. She never pees on anything else to "mark" it as hers either. I don't understand - this is the second bed she's peed in.

We tried to soak it up and rub it out with some water, but of course it still smells like pee. I put both their beds in the living room this morning and she got right in it and stayed there. I'm so confused! I don't want her bed to smell like pee, but I'm afraid if I buy her another one she's just going to pee in it again! Should I just leave it?

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  • CRM724CRM724
    I know it's totally disgusting, but it sounds okay to me. I have a female Chihuahua (almost 3, totally housebroken and well behaved) that has peed on every single bed we have ever bought for her. EVERY SINGLE ONE, lol. She only does it to mark it as hers, I think, she only does it once, and then she's done. I've tried washing it after she does it, but it makes it 'less hers,' I think, in her eyes, and she just does it again.So, every new bed, every new wash, she has to pee on it. So as long as I can't smell it (and we all know how sensitive pregnant noses are!), I let it go. If she wants to sleep in that nastiness, that's her problem, lol. I do wash it routinely and make sure she gets regular baths, though, just for my sanitary sanity!  :)  GL and HTH!
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  • PurpleK26PurpleK26 member

    Basically, she's letting you know she's pi$$ed at you for kicking her out of 'her spot'. We have a dog who is completely housebroken, but if we leave the house without putting her in her kennel, even if it's just for 10 minutes and she JUST went out and pottied, she'll run to the bathroom and leave us the tiniest 'must of really had to work hard to get them out' poops on our bathroom floor. She does it to let us know she's not happy with us.

    I'm guessing that's what your dog is doing! And, I have no idea how to break her of it! 

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  • bananasmommabananasmomma
    Try putting her food in it at meal times.  I heard that they aren't supposed to pee where they eat.
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  • LovinTim912LovinTim912
    I don;t know about dogs, but I know that with my two cats, when they pee anywhere they aren't supposed to that it is a sign of some kind of urinary infection. ?Our older cat was constantly peeing in the bathroom sink, the bathtub, and on my Crocs (which did make me giggle... but thank God they are washable!!!) which was totally not like her. ?We took her to the vet and the poor thing had a ranging UTI. ?It wound up taking 3 courses of antibiotics and changing her food to get the infection cleared up. ?Maybe it's the same thing with dogs????
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  • Battlebaby09Battlebaby09
    She may just be marking it as hers. I am sure she has figured out that something new is coming. If she is sleeping in it let her! I am crating all three of mine now, to get them used to it. I don't want them to blame the baby. You can try washing the bed in oxyclean at the laundry mat if it won't fit in your washer at home. Chances are she is just going to do it again. Two of mine pee on the towels in their crate and it drives me crazy!
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  • Lizzerd13Lizzerd13 member
    Put it in the washing machine or if it won't fit in yours, take it to the laundry mat and do it in one of those big machines.  Don't keep buying beds just because she pees on it.
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  • ibisibis member

    She may be marking, but she may also just be excited about the bed and getting a little excited. My dog has actually done this on OUR bed when he was settling down to go to sleep... he turned in circles, around and around excessively, and then I think just got excited or confused and peed! It was bizarre - he'd been housetrained for years and that was an isolated incident. 

    Now when he's turning circles like that we tell him to settle down or lie down to make sure he doesn't do it again.

    I think you should keep the bed, but get the pee smell out. Buy a bottle of enzymatic pet odor cleaner, and put about 1/2 cup of it into the washer with enough water to cover the bed. Let it soak for a while and then run the washer. That should take care of the pee smell and next time just watch her closely and make sure she settles down right away.

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  • lelt404lelt404
    If she's doing it while she's sleeping or resting- and you know it's not a behavioral problem, take her to the vet because she either has a UTI or urinary incontinence. My dog has very bad urinary incontinence that got progressively worse over time. She would be asleep on her dog bed and wake up and there would be pee when she got up. Gross. I knew she didn't mean it because she was sleeping or resting when it happened. Anyway, now she is on a medicine called Proin which has completely fixed her problem. I would call your vet just to rule it out. Good luck.
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  • ashleyb0604ashleyb0604
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    She may be marking, but she may also just be excited about the bed and getting a little excited. My dog has actually done this on OUR bed when he was settling down to go to sleep... he turned in circles, around and around excessively, and then I think just got excited or confused and peed! It was bizarre - he'd been housetrained for years and that was an isolated incident. 

    Now when he's turning circles like that we tell him to settle down or lie down to make sure he doesn't do it again.

    I think you should keep the bed, but get the pee smell out. Buy a bottle of enzymatic pet odor cleaner, and put about 1/2 cup of it into the washer with enough water to cover the bed. Let it soak for a while and then run the washer. That should take care of the pee smell and next time just watch her closely and make sure she settles down right away.

    Oh how weird - that's what she was doing! She was in the bed and turning circles like crazy trying to get prepared to lie down. Maybe it was just an excitement thing. I know the only other time she EVER pees in the house is if she gets EXTREMELY excited and that's only happened twice in 3 years. Okay, well I guess I'll wash the bed and see what happens from there. Thanks for all your advice everyone!

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