April 26, 2011
Our Scottish Terrier pees on my husband’s leg. What should I do?
Full Question:
I am wondering if you can help us or tell us where to look for more information.Our Scottish Terrier, Angus, is 11 months old. He is a male and we also have two female Labrador Retrievers, one 6 years old and one 12 years old.
Angus of late has urinated on his master twice now once when he was in his rubber boots and once when he was in moccasins. Needless to say my husband is not pleased. Is this a dominance issue or is he marking my husband. My husband does most of the feeding and the dog has bonded with him extremely well. We have not had a male dog before so this is a unique experience for us. He is a Scottish Terrier and seems to be quite independent.
We would appreciate any advice you could give us on this as we do not want to see this action continue.
Karen
Ed's Answer:
My gut feeling is that this is a dominance issue. I would direct you to my article on Dealing with the Dominant Dog.
The dog needs to go through a serious regimented obedience program - Basic Dog Obedience. I would work the dog with a prong collar (you can find them on my web site if you can not get them locally).
When the dog does this he needs to be corrected - really corrected. But that is not the end solution. The solution is in the article. Follow every single step of that article it works. If I can get a grip on experienced police dogs who have bitten the crap out of a lot of bad guys by using these methods you can certainly control a small terrier (who has the heart of a police dog).
The dog needs to go through a serious regimented obedience program - Basic Dog Obedience. I would work the dog with a prong collar (you can find them on my web site if you can not get them locally).
When the dog does this he needs to be corrected - really corrected. But that is not the end solution. The solution is in the article. Follow every single step of that article it works. If I can get a grip on experienced police dogs who have bitten the crap out of a lot of bad guys by using these methods you can certainly control a small terrier (who has the heart of a police dog).
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