Is this normal ?
TheToonArmy
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Hi,
I have a male 1 year old collie/lab called Kobe, the thing is he does not cock its leg when he has a pee, is this normal.
We have another dog who's 17 and cannot cock its leg due to him being a bit wobbly, so he goes like a bitch, so is kobe just copying off him.
The other thing is we take him for walks for hours and he wont pee until he gets back home.
One time the wife took him out for 4 hours and he was bursting by the time he got home.
In the year we have had him he's done maybe 6 pee's outside.
We had him to dog training classes and the training thinks he maybe a bit unsure of the outside world and feels safe in his garden.
What do you think......
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I have a male 1 year old collie/lab called Kobe, the thing is he does not cock its leg when he has a pee, is this normal.
We have another dog who's 17 and cannot cock its leg due to him being a bit wobbly, so he goes like a bitch, so is kobe just copying off him.
The other thing is we take him for walks for hours and he wont pee until he gets back home.
One time the wife took him out for 4 hours and he was bursting by the time he got home.
In the year we have had him he's done maybe 6 pee's outside.
We had him to dog training classes and the training thinks he maybe a bit unsure of the outside world and feels safe in his garden.
What do you think......
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As to peeing one of ours is the same and much prefers doing it at home. But if they are desperate enough they will do it elsewhere.
Anyway, my next door neighbours dog doesn't crop his leg up either, he just stands up when he has a pee, I thought it was because he got neutered too soon but not sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJuyiUUHBQ . . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80D0ylOqPJ8&NR=1
Kobe will start doing it in time
of course, if he wants to pee in the middle of the gravel he'll still squat down, looks a right idiot doing it
The big girl!
and a fairy outfit
he's my little woofter
I suppose it does not help when nanook our other dog is so wobbley on his back end that he squats and kobe see's it.
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An early neuter has been thought to stop them from cocking, but my un-neutered childhood Cocker Spaniel never Cocked. Yet my friend's Springer - neutered at six months - cocks.
Got Han at 7 months, already cocking. Murphy (neutered at 4 years) cocked at about 7 months. The day my puppy became a dog:D No role model - he was an only dog - so just instinct and hormones.
My bitch occasionally cocks as well!! She is definitely copying the boys - she only does it is they have marked a spot and she looks so uncomfortable and self-conscious doing it:D
I'm getting that impression, I will have to take more noitice, not that I will be a serial dog pee'ing watcher
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May be more overmarking than copying posture. would have to cock to literally be up there with the boys
Small dogs very occasionally do handstands to get their mark higher up the post, like the big boys
LOL, she is a very small dog:D about 10 inches to shoulder and 3.75KG.
LOL thats what my little Danny does..sometimes he lifts his leg so high he loses balance and falls over