Lynne,
I'm with Steve. My last female was a marker.....From her puppy hood on. It wasn't anything that just happened to come up one day.
Smell, mark. Smell mark. Smell mark. God you'd think she'd run out of the stuff. You could watch her every morning do the perimeters of her turf. And if I let it happen it'd take 2 hours for a 2 mile walk.
Maybe an urinalysis is in order for your dog. Just to be on the safe side ya know.
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We've since been able to return some of his freedoms, but the walk is such a perfect daily opportunity to re-establish leadership, as long as you're conscious of it, you can maintain a nice balance of control, respect and privileges that will have effects throughout all aspects of the dog's day.
~Natalya
Thanks for the post, Natalya. I have tightened up our pack structure in the house, but it sounds like our walks should follow suit.
The marking is not excessive, but it makes sense that all pack structure issues should be completely resolved before I allow her this freedom...
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A little more ob can't hurt, thats for sure. I can only speak to what my males do and there's more going on with marking then just pee'ing on another dogs spot. There's a whole lot of strutting and kicking up grass, noises, a real show.
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Yep,
And it's funny to see it from a female.
She used to lift her leg against trees or posts and buildings too. Damnedest thing.
It is funny. Mine would aim, or perceive that she was aiming, I guess, but all she accomplished was dribbling down the other back leg.
and Steve said: I can only speak to what my males do and there's more going on with marking then just pee'ing on another dogs spot. There's a whole lot of strutting and kicking up grass, noises, a real show.
That's what I'd be kinda slow to allow if we were also having pack issues, or if my dog was very territorial.
Mine all go at it like a business, as in "OK, that ones is done. Let's move on." So in their case, with nothing going on elsewhere any more with them, I don't mind occasionally giving them the neighborhood mark-central spots.
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Yep,
And it's funny to see it from a female.
She used to lift her leg against trees or posts and buildings too. Damnedest thing.
I've only seen one or 2 females do this, but our landlords little female (terrier mix) will actually back up and do a handstand in order to pee higher up on trees and fence posts! I was dumbfounded the first time I saw it...
My husband swears my little girl does this when I'm at work.
I've only seen a partial leg lift a couple of times. He swears she full-on lifts her leg and pees on the fence that seperates her from our neighbor's (obnoxious) pitbull.
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