Really stressing me out!!!!

[madsazzy]

I love my dog to bits but she is driving me mad!
She fairly regularly, and quite deliberately pees on our beds! She is just over a year out and has been house trained for ages and i just dont know why she does it.
It has been going on for quite a while and she also did it when we got her a new bed.
She will sometimes go for ages without doing it, so we think that maybe it was accidental, or that it was a phase, but then she will do it consistantly for a few days. She weed on my bed last night, and i knew she had done it cos she came creeping down the stairs on her belly with her tail between her legs and looking very guilty she crept to the back door.
And she has just done it again, but tonight on my daughters bed. I am so cross!!! I dont normally allow her upstairs cos i dont trust her not to do it, but she must have snuck up when i wasnt looking tonight.
I know i could put a stair gate up to stop her getting upstairs, but i'd rather address the problem and not just prevent her from doing it.
Any suggestions oh wise ones?
xx

[idalia]

www.fancydogbeds.com/why.shtml
This article may give you some idea of the reasons why a dog may pee on your bed.
I do think you should stop your dog from going upstairs at least for the time being, you need to break the cycle of the dog doing this.
I understand why you are stressed out by the problem, but please don't punish your dog for doing it, it won't help, your dog isn't doing it to spite you and punishing her will ruin the relationship you may have with your dog.

[madsazzy]

Thanks I do get cross but all i do is give her a look and send her outside. She knows she's done wrong and almost confesses as soon as she's done it.
She is banned from going upstairs by my house is quite open plan so cant shut the door to stop her.
Thanks for the article x

[squidgetmidget]

she doesnt 'know she has done wrong', she has a look on her face that you perceive as a guilty look when in actual fact it is her anticipating your next mood and actions which she nows knows will be negative.

[gubrach]

One of my JRT was doing this not on my bed but around the house turns out he had crystals in his urine, vet put him on a new diet and no accidents since.

[fanfarefan]

gubrach , is your jrt a dog or bit*h , our jrt x ,does have accidents in the kitchen , of both types , but just recently he has messed a couple of times in the dining room , of the solid nature , i have changed his feed times but still no improvement , the reason i ask is that he was very ill 18 months ago with heomoragic castroentoritis, and spent 5 days on a drip etc and wonder whether there is any damage or causes arisng from this aswell ,he s castrated so not marking his teritory, but didnt know if d/b , where more susceptible than others , ?? sx

[merrymooxx]

our dogs scratch the carpet on our hallway so we put baby gates at the bottom of the stairs so they couldnt get up and when i was up there they come up with me until they stopped

[bomerang]

i would def couble check for a urine infection this can sometimes be a sign, or as someone else said earlier can be a sign of crystals in the urine, and if she is generally a good dog, i would def rule anything medical, my dog did it only once or twice (she is 15) and has never been dirty, but only did twice and with 2 weeks in between and sent off a urine sample as i knew it wasnt right and she did have an infection, i would have been mortified if i had have told her off and then found out the real reason! good luck

[fanfarefan]

yes i think that maybe it needs looking into , but he has always been unreliable , hes only 3 , and we adopted him at 9 mths and his house training was not good so he is lazy in that respect , and doesnt have the intelligence to ask to go out , hes as thick as a box of frogs , so we do bere with him but there maybe an underlying problem !!!!

[vikki85]

I think this is a territory thing, my husky used to pee on my bedroom floor all the time, I gave the carpet a good clean, made the mistake of letting her in my room a few days later, she took one sniff at the 'clean' smelling carpet and promptly peed!!' Since then she was banned entirely from what was my room but what she'd obviously come to think of as hers! She soon got the hint and was allowed in my room again and never did it again. She also randomly peed on my mums bed not that long ago, though she's never done that on mine, but my Mum is the bottom of the pack in our house and I think the dog was telling her so when she marked her bed! Lol

[jesssmum]

Could it be hormonal ? Is she spayed even if she has she may still be a but on the pms side ? As someone has already said it sound territorial to me My mothers dog used to do it if she ever came to my house it was always on the girls beds

[dazycutter]

I know you said you dont want to shut her out, but I would. or if you really want her upstairs with you , put her in a crate.