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Originally Posted by ladyjane  I am no expert by any means, but I simply don't believe they are vindictive. To way that a pup will squat while outside and "act" like it is going to the bathroom to fool me so that he/she can come into the house and tick me off by soiling in the house is just ludicrous to me. I do believe they hide what they are doing because they know we don't approve...but I still think it is more a matter of a bit of confusion on their parts. |
Morgan can be a "fake" pee'er. I've actually seen her acting like she is urinating just so I'll let her back in the house.She doesn't really do it anymore but used to do it a lot when she was a puppy. Usually she did it when there was something or some one great in the house that she wanted to play with, or she did it in bad weather (snow, rain). In fact, thanks to the snow, this is how i discovered she was doing it. Her first winter she was 7-9 months old and we had some storms that left 1-2 feet of snow. she didn't like walking in the deeper snow and hadn't yet figured out to hug the house where its shallower like she does now. I couldn't figure out why she was peeing in the house after i JUST took her outside and saw her pee. So I started putting her back on a leash and going all the way outside with her so i could see what she was (or wasn't) doing. I swear to god, as soon as she set foot out in the snow, she sniffed around for 2 seconds, squatted like she was peeing for a few seconds and then tried to run back to the screen door. I bent down to check it out and what do you know, no yellow snow or melted tiny pee hole. I took her back to the spot and she did it again! So i then stood out there for 20 minutes until she finally went. Then we went back inside.
She tried it many times again during that winter but i figured out how to tell if she was fake peeing or actually peeing from my position at the doorway. Eventually she stopped doing it.