Alex Madsen Webboard User Reg: 02-16-2007
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My 6 month old GSD keeps peeing on himself when I take him out to go to the bathroom. He doesn't do it on purpose, but he just started to lift up his leg and he keeps peeing on himself. It's always the right leg, at first he moved himself when he peed on himself, but now he just stopped caring. I'm trying to get him to stop but everything I try isn't really working, is this something he just has to get used to or is there something I can do? I'm just afraid of getting the house dirty when I bring him back inside and infections that could happen on his skin. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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My 6 month old GSD keeps peeing on himself when I take him out to go to the bathroom. He doesn't do it on purpose, but he just started to lift up his leg and he keeps peeing on himself. It's always the right leg, at first he moved himself when he peed on himself, but now he just stopped caring. I'm trying to get him to stop but everything I try isn't really working, is this something he just has to get used to or is there something I can do? I'm just afraid of getting the house dirty when I bring him back inside and infections that could happen on his skin. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
- Ali
Urine is sterile and won't get the house dirty.
It does small and isn't great on his skin, so I would get unscented baby wipes and clean it up on the way in, and meanwhile I'd consider collecting a specimen and dropping it off to check for a UTI, if he seems to be peeing sooner than he means to, involuntarily.
HOWEVER, a pup at our club did this the first month or two he lifted his leg, and he got better at it over time.
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Well he's not really peeing sooner than he needs to. He pees whenever I take him out and tell him "Go Potty", but when he does he pees on himself. Everything is normal except the fact that he pees on himself. I sometimes pull up on his leash slightly and that generally gets him to aim differently, but that doesn't always work. I just hope he gets over it because it's pretty gross!
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I had a female with (I guess) gender issues: she always lifted her leg. Since she didn't have the equipment to get the stream onto the tree or pole she was aiming for, it usually ran down the other leg.
She was old and arthritic and I wasn't up for trying to change it.
I bought unscented baby wipes in a refill pack and a pocket pack and used them when she got wet.
They are extremely effective, BTW, even for a quick "bath" to remove pollen or smells.
I think your guy will get better at it, and that baby wipes will tide you over.
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Yeah that's what I've been doing but they haven't been unscented. Is it a big thing to have unscented wipes?
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Oh, no, not at all..... I just get the ones with no chemicals, which are generally unscented. But no, no big deal.
I started getting the unscented back when I had a dog who would roll in the first stink-item he could find if he had any kind of shampoo smell or anything like that, that would alert his prey to the mighty hunter's presence. Or I assume that's why he hated to be scented.
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Haha, that's hilarious! Caesar is pretty goofy with the wipes because he keeps trying to eat them while I'm wiping his leg. Sometimes I just never understand his behavior.
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