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Last night I was watching Trever having his daily roll around on the carpet - he gets frisky and this is what he does, as well as making these weird noises and getting a tad excited - he gets up, shakes himself, then, as brazen as can be, trots over to the couch and cocks his blasted leg! He pissed on the damned couch. I sent him outside straight away but he didn't seem to care that he had done wrong. Cooper knows when he has done the wrong thing, but Trev, no remorse at all!
He does it either because he can smell the scent of Cooper's urine, or because he is lazy. I would say its because he's lazy. He goes outside for a wee, instead of peeing on the grass, he will just piss beside the picnic table on the patio. He's a little overweight, refuses to eat dry food because Cooper gets a mix or dry and wet (Cooper had his teeth filed down before we got him so its harder for him to chew) and doesn't even show any interest in playing ball. He barks like mad when the balls come out, but he refuses to run and catch one.
Lazy little shit he is!
Nothing. He doesn't like the fact that we all work and he is often alone by himself, but he should be used to that.
He is so demanding when you get home though. I arrive home from a 9 hour shift at work and he grabs his ball and starts barking, demanding I go outside and play. I want to rest, I don't want to play just yet, but he expects it.
He'll get his walk tomorrow, so that is something.
Koshergrl, he's not my dog, He's my mums dog - so is the other Border. She has back problems with started only recently so she can't exercise the dogs as much as she would like.
I start work at 5am most mornings - there is no way I can take the dog for a walk then, and besides, she wouldn't let me. Cooper is very strong and she reckons he will be too strong for me. He expects her to take him for a walk but she can't and I am starting to wonder why we have him when we can't walk him that often.
I don't know, it sounds like you're always angry with him. That makes them neurotic.They aren't neurotic on their own.
I'm not usually mad at him. I really do like him, especially when he comes over for a cuddle and sleeps on my feet at night. He's a great dog and gets a ton of praise. I just get mad when he pisses everywhere because it stinks and we have to clean it up.
Now the younger dog has gotten the idea that if Cooper can piss inside, so can he. So the Jack Russell had a piss inside as well, in the bedroom this time.
Its exasperating at times, I swear! I wish we had cats, I am more of a cat person, anyway - and they don't piss inside!
Omg, you've got a border collie and a jack russell?
I do pity you...and cats absolutely piss inside, hahaha and it smells even worse.
I had a couple of Rottie mixes who would occasionally piss and shit on my flipping BED. It had nothing to do with them having to go to the bathroom...one memorable event took place just a few minutes after I'd let them in from outside...I let them into the house, then ran out to the car to get the groceries and guess what was waiting for me?
I don't know, it sounds like you're always angry with him. That makes them neurotic.They aren't neurotic on their own.
I'm not usually mad at him. I really do like him, especially when he comes over for a cuddle and sleeps on my feet at night. He's a great dog and gets a ton of praise. I just get mad when he pisses everywhere because it stinks and we have to clean it up.
Now the younger dog has gotten the idea that if Cooper can piss inside, so can he. So the Jack Russell had a piss inside as well, in the bedroom this time.
Its exasperating at times, I swear! I wish we had cats, I am more of a cat person, anyway - and they don't piss inside!
I don't know, it sounds like you're always angry with him. That makes them neurotic.They aren't neurotic on their own.
I'm not usually mad at him. I really do like him, especially when he comes over for a cuddle and sleeps on my feet at night. He's a great dog and gets a ton of praise. I just get mad when he pisses everywhere because it stinks and we have to clean it up.
Now the younger dog has gotten the idea that if Cooper can piss inside, so can he. So the Jack Russell had a piss inside as well, in the bedroom this time.
Its exasperating at times, I swear! I wish we had cats, I am more of a cat person, anyway - and they don't piss inside!
You can't claim to be a cat person and not know that they are far more likely than dogs to employ inappropriate urination to express thei displeasure.
I'm not usually mad at him. I really do like him, especially when he comes over for a cuddle and sleeps on my feet at night. He's a great dog and gets a ton of praise. I just get mad when he pisses everywhere because it stinks and we have to clean it up.
Now the younger dog has gotten the idea that if Cooper can piss inside, so can he. So the Jack Russell had a piss inside as well, in the bedroom this time.
Its exasperating at times, I swear! I wish we had cats, I am more of a cat person, anyway - and they don't piss inside!
You can't claim to be a cat person and not know that they are far more likely than dogs to employ inappropriate urination to express thei displeasure.
When I was young, single and had a cat, he gave me a 10pm curfew. If I came home after ten, he peed in my shoes. If he couldn't get a shoe, he'd pee in the bed.
You can't claim to be a cat person and not know that they are far more likely than dogs to employ inappropriate urination to express thei displeasure.
When I was young, single and had a cat, he gave me a 10pm curfew. If I came home after ten, he peed in my shoes. If he couldn't get a shoe, he'd pee in the bed.
What did you do when he peed in your bed? Buy a new mattress or sleep on that one.
When I was young, single and had a cat, he gave me a 10pm curfew. If I came home after ten, he peed in my shoes. If he couldn't get a shoe, he'd pee in the bed.
What did you do when he peed in your bed? Buy a new mattress or sleep on that one.
I soaked it in Nature's Miracle and slept on the other side until it dried. You can use Hydrogen Peroxide too. My friend had a cat that objected to her doing homework when she was in law school. He would drag her clothes out of the hamper and pee on them. If the cat was REALLY mad, he'd claw her underwear to shreds.
Animals have ways of dealing with disobedient owners. My dog gives "lectures". She will get in your face and read you the riot act until you follow instructions. She has a sitter while I'm at school, it took my dog only a few weeks to teach the sitter simple commands like "walk, water, cookie". The sitter is now as obedient as a human can be. My dog is the second most intelligent of all dog breeds, she's a poodle. I have no patience in dog training, nor do I want a dog with the decision making ability of a ten year old child.
In this situation. I really don't see a disobedient dog. I see a poorly equipped owner with a lot of excuses on why she's poorly equipped. Not all dogs are suitable for all owners. A border collie is extremely intelligent and extremely active. A dog less intelligent (but not as stupid as say, an Afghan) will be easier to train and not as apt as to think for themselves.
Here is a list of dog breeds ranked by intelligence.
1. Border Collie
2. Poodle
3. German Shepherd
4. Golden Retriever
5. Doberman Pinscher
6. Shetland Sheepdog
7. Labrador Retriever
8. Papillon
9. Rottweiler
10. Australian cattle dog
11. Pembroke Welsh corgi
12. Miniature schnauzer
13. English springer spaniel
14. Belgian Tervuren
15. Schipperke Belgian sheepdog
16. Collie Keeshond
17. German short-haired pointer
18. Flat-coated retriever; English cocker spaniel; Standard schnauzer
19. Brittany spaniel
20. Cocker spaniel; Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever*
21. Weimaraner
22. Belgian Malinois; Bernese Mountain dog
23. Pomeranian
24. Irish water spaniel
25. Vizsla
26. Cardigan Welsh corgi
27. Chesapeake Bay retriever; Puli; Yorkshire terrier
28. Giant schnauzer; Portuguese water dog
29. Airedale; Bouvier des Flandres
30. Border terrier; Briard
31. Welsh springer spaniel
32. Manchester terrier
33. Samoyed
34. Field spaniel; Newfoundland; Australian terrier; American Staffordshire terrier; Gordon setter; Bearded collie
35. American Eskimo dog*; Cairn terrier; Kerry blue terrier; Irish setter
36. Norwegian elkhound
37. Affenpinscher; Silky terrier Miniature pinscher; English setter; Pharaoh hound; Clumber spaniel
38. Norwich terrier
39. Dalmatian
40. Soft-coated wheaten terrier; Bedlington terrier; Smooth-haired fox terrier
41. Curly-coated retriever; Irish wolfhound
42. Kuvasz; Australian shepard
43. Saluki; Finnish spitz; Pointer
44. Cavalier King Charles spaniel; German wirehaired pointer; Black-and-tan coonhound; American water spaniel
45. Siberian husky; Bichon fries; English toy spaniel
46. Tibetan spaniel; English foxhound; Otterhound; American foxhound; Greyhound; Harrier*; Parson Russell terrier*; Wirehaired pointing griffon
47. West Highland white terrier; Havanese*; Scottish deerhound
48. Boxer; Great Dane
49. Dachshund; Staffordshire bull terrier; Shiba Inu*
50. Malamute
51. Whippet; Chinese shar-pei; Wirehaired fox terrier
52. Rhodesian ridgeback
53. Ibizan hound; Welsh terrier; Irish terrier
54. Boston terrier; Akita
55. Skye terrier
56. Norfolk terrier; Sealyham terrier
57. Pug
58. French bulldog
59. Brussels griffon; Maltese terrier
60. Italian greyhound
61. Chinese crested
62. Dandie Dinmont terrier; Vendeen; Tibetan terrier; Japanese chin; Lakeland terrier
63. Old English sheepdog
64. Great Pyrenees
65. Scottish terrier; Saint Bernard
66. Bull terrier; Petite Basset Griffon; Vendeen*
67. Chihuahua
68. Lhasa apso
69. Bullmastiff
70. Shih Tzu
71. Basset hound
72. Mastiff; Beagle
73. Pekingese
74. Bloodhound
75. Borzoi
76. Chow chow
77. Bulldog
78. Basenji
79. Afghan hound
For this family a border terrier would be a much better pet than a border collie.
Its driving us nuts! Can any dog lovers here give us some tips on how to deal with this?