tracey holden Webboard User Reg: 07-17-2010
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I always thought that when they pee on stuff outside their own territory, it was to cover another dogs scent.
Our first English Pointer, who we could take anywhere, came with us to visit my sister, who had recently got a pup, and calmly walked up to the fire place and lifted his leg, we were mortified!
Turned out that was where the pup squatted once because they missed the signal!
It's one of the reasons I never get a real Christmas tree
Jodi Moen Webboard User Reg: 12-28-2010
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Possibly because the observers were in cities where fire hydrants were more available than trees? Most of the old(1800's early 1900's) cartoons I've seen with dogs peeing on hydrants have a city scene. jmo.
My animals are not "like" family, they ARE family.
I have a fire hydrant on the curb at my house. You'd thing the dog walkers would take advantage of that huh! Nooooooo!
They let their dogs drag them to my shrubs and flowers even when I'm outside working on the yard. One lady asked me to put my dogs on leash when they were laying in the middle of my front yard. Her little fuzzbucket was half way across my yard on a flexi lead.
Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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I have a hydrant on one corner of my property. Every dog that comes by tinkles on it, as well as my mailbox, truck tires, Crepe Myrtles, and Indian Hawthornes. My female even tries to tinkle on the hydrant to cover the scent of the other dogs.
In my experience, if there is an upright object that one dog is allowed to tinkle on, others will follow suit. I've lived in the city and suburbs for years and I've never seen a hydrant or cable pedestal that wasn't a favorite pissing post; but then again, every tree and fencepost is also a potential target.
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