I'm sure this is normal but I st wanting to check. We have just started walking our 14 week lab retriever out for walks over the last few days and her toilet habits are a bit odd. She doesn't pee or poo anywhere but our garden (I'm trying peeing on command but it's not working when not at home). She comes home and pees 10 times all over the grass which I assume is just her marking her territory even though half the time there's nothing coming out. She has always weed on the grass but suddenly started peeing on the patio which then runs into her paws which is very annoying. Earlier I led her straight to the grass and said to have a wee and she just peed straight on patio. She getting quite big now for me to lift onto the grass! Is this just a phase from all the new world outside our house? X
Yes, it isn't unusual. She'd make a good Guide Dog as we train ours to wee and poo only at home, or on cue in our chosen spending areas if we are out for a long time. A good fix would be to teach her to wee on cue, if you do it well they'll squeeze one out for you any time any where.
No my 7 month old puppy doesn't. She always waits until we get back from walks and I take her into the garden. When she was younger I used to take her into the garden before we went for a walk. Can't offer any advice on the patio weeing, sorry.
Yes I'm trying weeing on cue but we're still working on it. I was hoping when we took her out I could save my lawn a little! It's peeing on the patio I really don't like as it runs into her paws and I don't want stinky paws! Hopefully it will change as her confidence grows. Plus we are only doing very short walks for now xx
My sisters boy is exactly the same - they can be out for a long walk (he's nearly two years old now) and the whole time he won't go for either a pee or a poo - as soon as they are home he rushes into the garden to go! Bailey is completely the opposite - he will not go in the garden at all, will only go when out on walks. In the last 7 or 8 months (Bailey is 16 months old now) he stands under the hook where his harness and collar are kept and whines at us. So off we go to a grass area at the bottom of our road each time.
The pee and poop position leaves them vulnerable to attack. Attack from what? Of course, but it's probably instinctive to hide this activity and when out on leash they can't. Many will not pee away from their safe place till they get older. Some owners like to train them to only potty in their own yard so as not to have to carry poop and worry about neighbours offended by either. Oban had no such inhibitions, as you might have guessed, but Jet did.
