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#57990 - 07/24/2002 02:53 PM |
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It's a real blast when they keep lifting their leg and the "tank is empty". You can almost hear mine thinking "Damn, should've drank more water before we left."
On the opposite end of the spectrum....
Sometimes when I let him out for the last pee break before bed, I turn on the spotlight in the backyard and watch him from the big window in the den. He'll go stand where I can see him, cock his leg and stare up at the window. The only thing is that there is nothing coming out. He's too tired or lazy to go. He's faking me out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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#57991 - 07/24/2002 03:01 PM |
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I had a bitch that would "fake-it" when I was house breaking her. She would squat, get up and look at you like "lets go back in". But there was nothing on the ground. I just stood there and told her to do it until she really went. She knew what behavior to exhibit to go back inside. I just wonder how long she faked it before I caught on??
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#57992 - 07/24/2002 03:04 PM |
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The schnauzer does that to me unless I stand there and make her go. The only time of day it is a problem is when she knows she is going to get fed. She will run to the bottom of the stairs, do a super fast squat, then run back up and demand dinner. Needless to say she doesn't get her way till she plays by MY rules. Little witch...
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#57993 - 07/24/2002 03:17 PM |
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I just wish our black would stretch out more; he tends to pee on the back of his front leg a lot. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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#57994 - 07/24/2002 03:19 PM |
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Well if were talking about males taking for ever to learn to lift their leg you can count mine in. He is now 19mths old. He started lifting a few months ago with no male to show him. Raised by a woman, older female dog, 2 female cats, you get the picture, now he lifts most the time unless he's realy tired then he just cocks his foot off the ground about an inch, or when hes marking, then he runs with nose to ground and still trys to mark and lift leg, all with out stoping, messy but very funny. :rolleyes: I have notice that he makes a big show of leg lifting when the neighbors female husky is out. Typical teenage boy, hormones raging, he's got to strut his stuff. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
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It's a learned behavior in my experience. Auster (female) learned from the arthritic dal down the street. She squated on three legs (the dal couldn't lift his leg more than a few inches without falling over). Now she's progressed to finding the biggest bush or patch of grass she can walk over and urinating on top of it. Pretty annoying at times.
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KurzeHaare,
A dog that marks all the time can be a huge pain. I teach all my dogs to go on command and I don't allow random marking. I also don't want him doing the dominance marking in some of the places we work because people would have to track through it. Besides, it makes it convinient when you are on a trip or some other reason you are in a hurry. You just tell them to go and they do.
In addition, my trainer was cut off by some jerk in a parking lot going for a parking place. He had his GSD with him and told the dog to mark this guy's shinny chrome oversize tires. The guy got out and told the trainer to make him stop... The suggested that if the guy wanted the dog to stop, he could tell him himself!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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#57997 - 07/24/2002 06:47 PM |
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That's soooo <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
I'm missin' out!
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Richard, I am thankful for your last post. Very recently, I have been forcing my dog to empty his bladder (on command)when we begin our walk and I have been disallowing constant marking altogether. It would take 20 minutes to walk one block. (Walk, sniff, mark, sniff, mark, mark sniff etc.) I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to extinguish this behavior entirely.
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#57999 - 07/25/2002 09:50 AM |
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My dog marks only when he is off lead, in his own backyard, or that of friends. He is not allowed to mark while on a walk on leash. When we walk, WE WALK. Period. The dog does not dictate when to stop or for how long.
I used a cue phrase when he was a pup. "Do Duty" or "Do Duties". Although I don't use it as often now, he'll still go on command if I don't let him off lead. It's a very handy option that I use mostly in the summer because there are usually a lot more people enjoying the outside.
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