How long does it take...
... for your dog to FINALLY decide on a potty spot????
I just spent over an hour walking with Keiko so she could find the perfect spot. She's usually good about peeing, a few circles around the front yard and she'll go... but number two is a whole other story!
I beginning to think my neighbors think I'm some weird psycho dog walking addict because I walk her around the same route over and over again until she finds a spot she deems acceptable. I know she has to go because she's doing the 'potty sniff' (yes... I'm positive there's a 'potty sniff' and a 'I want to find something to get into sniff' ... James thinks I'm nuts) and if you look at her butt... you can tell it wants to come out (SO gross... I know... but I have to make sure!).
Anyway... just wondering if your dog is as neurotic about potty time as mine is!
I just spent over an hour walking with Keiko so she could find the perfect spot. She's usually good about peeing, a few circles around the front yard and she'll go... but number two is a whole other story!
I beginning to think my neighbors think I'm some weird psycho dog walking addict because I walk her around the same route over and over again until she finds a spot she deems acceptable. I know she has to go because she's doing the 'potty sniff' (yes... I'm positive there's a 'potty sniff' and a 'I want to find something to get into sniff' ... James thinks I'm nuts) and if you look at her butt... you can tell it wants to come out (SO gross... I know... but I have to make sure!).
Anyway... just wondering if your dog is as neurotic about potty time as mine is!
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I'm pretty sure that is a Nihonken trait. Lucky us! )
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Nemo will not pee or poop near our apartment, we have to walk at least a little bit away. On our walks he pees a lot, but is picky about where to pee, sniffing a 1 foot square spot until he finds just the spot and then lines it up. His poop dance usually does not last more than 10 seconds.
Whizzer pees and poops instantly, which is great late at night or in the winter. He takes like one step onto the grass and pees, everytime.
The first time we left Nemo with our friends for a weekend, he wouldn't poop at all. Three days, which is a lot for a dog who usually poops three times a day. I took him on a walk just after we got home with him, we went about 200 yards and he had an explosion out his rear end. The noise and volume shocked him and he jumped forward. Pretty hilarious.
Since we moved to our new place, there are a lot more trees, they line all sides of the streets, its nice actually, but Kitsune goes on a pissing frenzy now, he's like obsessed with marking every block or so. Whats the deal?
I can't even begin to count the number of dogs Nemo has peed on.
Jess: Mika pees on Keigo too. It's his fault really. SHE will lift her leg to pee and he'll go sniff! I can usually pull him away, but sometime, he just gets in the way.
Brandon: Mika and Keigo would mark every tree if I let them too. They both do the kicking thing too.
Hmmm. I forgot to mention. While Keigo will pee anywhere on our walking route, he does take some time to decide which leg he'll lift. Hehe.
Strangely she's not on a poop/pee schedule, so I just try to take her out often but she's very good at directing me back in if I take her out but she doesn't need to go.
Dave: While we adopted Kitsune right about the time he was 10 or 11 months old, he didn't lift his leg for a few months after that, I'd say between 15-18 months old. But that was under a different set of circumstances. The basset we fostered from 5 months old to 13 months and he only started to lift his fat stubby leg around then as well.
Janaki: Tsuki just sounds like a heavenly Shiba! Have you thought about Therapy Dog training? If she is as great as she sounds, she'd probably be perfect for therapy!
Then he got neutered. Due to the vet's orders, we couldn't walk him that far, so I took advantage and started to show him where I wanted him to go. When the mood would strike, I took him to the back. It took him a while before he'd do it, but he did it.
Now that he's healed, he'll poop a little around the northern perimeter line of the property. Sometimes he holds some of it to poop during our walks which really annoys me!
Before we got Honey I was given this advice and it REALLY worked for us! When Honey needed to go out, we would put her on her leash and take her to the back yard. I picked a general spot that I wanted her to "go". I stood there and didnt move. Since she was on the leash she was able to run around in a pretty large circle around me, but that was all. She had an area to choose from. Now she will go to that SAME area anytime we let her out to do her thing. Makes cleaning the yard SO MUCH easier!!!! Of course when we are on walks she usually picks the yard where the owner is sitting on their porch. DOH! lol
Tonight wasn't too horrible, but it was a struggle to get her started. She eventually found a potty spot in her semi-normal area. It's kind of hilarious to see her walk, it reminds me of those 'prancing ponies' or dancing horses or whatever... too cute )
Dave - Ninja started marking pretty young. I think it was around 6 months or so. I remember he started doing it a few weeks before his neuter. Now he marks what he can. He doesn't mark everything new in sight, which is good. But he still pee's on all fours, haha~
Evan-I just got back from Portland a few hours ago. It rained the whole drive, for I few minutes I thought I was back in Seattle. What area of P-town are you in that's marshy like that? Are you on the river?