Hello,
I'm new here. My dog Louie and I need some help. Louie is a 3 year old beagle/x. My husband and I adopted Louie the end of January. He was housebroken when we brough him home and we never had a problem with him going in the house. That is until last Friday. Does anyone know why a dog would pee on a bed? He has never had an accident in the house. Today he did it again, only this time on another spot on the bed. I have a rather high bed so he really has to work to get up on the bed. Please help, my husband is leaning towards returning him to the shelter. We are his 5th home and I don't have a lot of hope he will find a 6th.

Any new additions to the house, like another dog or cat?
Have you had him checked for a urinary tract infection?

What is his previous background like? and is he a dominant type dog or submissive?

Does he potty anywhere else in the house? If not, I would keep him out of the bedroom.


ooops almost forgot....What are you feeding him?

Nothing has changed at all in our home since we brought him home the end of January.

We haven't had him to the vet yet as he is not going anywhere else in the house except on our bed.

The info the shelter gave us is that he came from an abusive background. One of the families that had him nearly killed him from neglect and beatings. When we got him, he was coming from his 4th family and very healthy. They said he just wouldn't leave their older lab alone so they wanted him to have a family where he was the only dog. He seems to be more dominant than submissive.

The only other problem we have had with Louie is barking. It's not that he barks inappropriately (sp?) it's the sound of his bark that is the problem. LOL, when he barks he sounds like someone is trying to kill him.

I so appreciate your help! Ohh, almost forgot this too ...he eats Beneful, which is what he was eating before he came to us.

 Quote: Sharil Meeks

Hello,
I'm new here. My dog Louie and I need some help. Louie is a 3 year old beagle/x. My husband and I adopted Louie the end of January. He was housebroken when we brough him home and we never had a problem with him going in the house. That is until last Friday. Does anyone know why a dog would pee on a bed? He has never had an accident in the house. Today he did it again, only this time on another spot on the bed. I have a rather high bed so he really has to work to get up on the bed. Please help, my husband is leaning towards returning him to the shelter. We are his 5th home and I don't have a lot of hope he will find a 6th.

I agree with Carol: Keep him out of the bedroom.

That food is, in a word, junk.*

Here are some better kibbles:
http://www.leerburg.com/all-natural%20kibble.htm

I hope you wanted straightforward opinions.



*First few ingredients:

Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (source of vitamin E), rice flour, beef, soy flour, sugar, sorbitol......

Also, I think you'd do great by getting video number 302 on Leerburg.com, because it's really about how to live with a dog.
http://www.leerburg.com/302.htm

Training will be great for the dog and great for the pack structure.

JMO. I think you can fix this.

My dog did the same thing before. I did what Carol suggested and just didn't let him on the bed anymore. Problem solved. I have absolutely no idea why he did it. It almost seemed to surprise him as well.

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That food is, in a word, junk.

Alot of us here feed raw. There is TONS of info on this site about the subject and alot of very knowlegeable people. Also, here is a list of high quality kibbles if raw is a little to overwhelming. Stick around and you'll find that it is easier than you think. Any of these foods, especially the grain free ones, would be a step in the right direction.

http://www.leerburg.com/all-natural%20kibble.htm

 Quote: Sharil Meeks

I so appreciate your help! Ohh, almost forgot this too ...he eats Beneful, which is what he was eating before he came to us.

Yeah, I would switch foods. Even to a better quality kibble. Not that that has anything to do with him peeing on your bed, but it is a grain based kibble, and grains are difficult for dogs to process.
It causes their stomach, pancreas and other organs to work harder than they have to in order to extract the protein and other nutrients.

Innova, Canidae, Chicken Soups for the Pet Lovers are what I use for dogs that come into training here, but my dogs are raw fed.
Once in a while they will get kibble (GASP) but that is only of my hubby is feeding and I am gone longer than what I package meals for.

I am glad to hear that he has a great home and that you are willing to fix the problem rather than send him back to the shelter.
January to now is still a relatively short period of time, especially with abuse and neglect in the past history. He may be trying to establish his presence and the bed is probably a place that he has chosen to mark.

I hear you about the baying.....I have a Bloodhound and he is probably twice as loud as the smaller baying breeds and sometimes it does sound like he has his head stuck through the fence....

You are in the right place for advice, support, help and HONEST opinions.
Welcome and keep us posted....

I agree about keeping him out of the bedroom and maybe you could get him a dog crate if you want to have him in there with you at night.

I had a rescue GSD for 9 years and she would have sporadic bouts of peeing in the house. I finally got smart in my latest home and replaced the carpet padding after her first accident. She never did it in that spot again or anywhere else in the house thank goodness. Crating her seemed to help also.

The house before that she started to continually pee in the same spot(even after she had been walked) about the time we started getting ready to sell our house.

She seemed to sense there was something going on. She had a lot of issues when I got her and because she was already so old I wasn't going to get rid of her.

It was frustrating, but like my dogs vet told me, she wouldn't have had such a good LONG-life if we hadn't adopted her. We were her fourth home (including a foster home 2x with a GSD rescue person)

After I read Marley and me, I realized she wasn't such a bad dog after all.

I love HONESTY! And I came for help. I'm the mom of 4 grown children; I never gave up on them when they messed up and I won't give up on Louie either. My kids turned out ok...two in the Army, the other two living productive lives.. so I have a lot of hope for our Louie. I've been reading alot on the web site. Is there any training for people that started off on the wrong foot and now want to correct it?

We will change Louie's diet right away. We only stuck with Beneful because that is what he had been eating.

Since Louie came to live with us the only time he was able to have the run of the house was when we were home. Otherwise he is confined to the kitchen area with a gate. We are now keeping the door shut to our room.

Thanks so much for everyone's help!

I just want to make sure that you know that the dog is peeing on the bed when it is awake. I have a friend who had a Golden (working SAR dog) 3yrs old that started to "leak" urine, or pee when it was at rest or asleep in its kennel. There are medical conditions that can cause a dog to pee while it is sleeping. I was not sure if your dog normaly sleeps on the bed, or if you think the dog is marking the bed.

In the Golden's case, after a few months of this the vet said it would have to be on medication for the rest of its life. The owners took it to a alternative vet that wanted to try a chiropractic adjustment in the back end first. One adjustment, dog was cured. It has been over a year now. Weird go figure.

Cheers,
Jennifer