Hello,
I have a pembroke welsh corgi who is turning 1 year old in a few weeks and the potty training has been a bit of a struggle. The main weird issue is that she specifically pees ON her beds. She’ll even sit/lay down in her own pee puddles when she pees outside.
I started potty training her the second we first got her. I don’t have a large backyard area but a fenced in balcony-ish area with a doggy door where I have her pee when I’m gone at work (over 8+ hours, Tue-Thur). Aside from that I usually try and have her pee on morning/evening walks outside.
Ever since we got her she had a weird habit of peeing on blankets/beds and then lying on them. This is weird, since I thought dogs naturally avoided doing so. She would choose to pee in her bed than drag her chews and toys and lie in the peed bed. To counteract this I’ve removed all soft things (blankets/beds) for the past few months.
She hasn’t peed in her crate since I’ve removed all the soft things but she used to when she was a little puppy, and I’m worried about her picking up this habit again.
Additionally, since the pee smell from the balcony can drift in to the living room, i clean up and spray down the balcony every day. We also IMMEDIATELY enzyme spray and vaccuum/mop whenever she pees inside, because we do NOT want the pee smell to linger. She tends to pee in different spots each time, it’s not a specific spot she always pees in.
She pees inside occasionally, maybe once a week when I’m home. However, whenever I leave the country and have my roommate watch her, she starts acting up and pees inside CONSTANTLY. Is this behavior BECAUSE I’m gone?
I plan on redoing crating/pee schedule training when I get home from vacation this time, but I would really like some more advice. Why does my dog lie and roll in her pee? Is something wrong? My recent vet visits concluded she is perfectly healthy and I plan on saving up to see a behavioralist if this continues 😞
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