WhitneyBlanche
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Hi all,
We've had our bulldog, Ollie, for about 9 months now. She is just over a year and a half.
She is such a delight and for the most part a very well behaved dog.
There are just a few issues she's been having that we need help on.
Ollie seems to have a fascination with peeing on blankets. She likes to paw at them until they are in a pile beneath her then she pees on them. She never has accidents anywhere else and if we block off any rooms that have blankets there are no accidents. But twice over the past few months she has done this on our bed and last week she went into the basement and did this on a spare bed we keep down there. We also have blankets in her crate and she does this in her crate as well. This used to happen here and there but now it's all the time. We've stopped putting blankets in her crate for days or even a week and no accidents but when we decide she can be trusted again- pee on the blankets again. She has a dog bed in the living room where she does most of her sleeping, the crate is just a safe place we still keep available to her because it was her bed when we first got her. She never pees on the dog bed, just in the crate on the blankets. We do have another dog and a cat so I'm wondering if this could have something to do with dominance or marking territory?
Our other issue is chewing. We do keep the house doggy proofed- nothing on the floor or low tables. But sometimes a book gets left on a coffee table or the hall shoe closet gets left open an inch and we come home to a huge mess. She has a ton of toys and she gets new toys all the time so it's not a lack of toys. And we reprimand her when she does this so she knows it is wrong. But we have yelled at her for destroying a book and she has spent an hour sitting in the corner with her ears low so she knows she was bad... then later that day finds something else to try to chew on. It's like she either forgets about getting into trouble or she just doesn't care.
Any tips would be much appreciated! Thanks so much!
We've had our bulldog, Ollie, for about 9 months now. She is just over a year and a half.
She is such a delight and for the most part a very well behaved dog.
There are just a few issues she's been having that we need help on.
Ollie seems to have a fascination with peeing on blankets. She likes to paw at them until they are in a pile beneath her then she pees on them. She never has accidents anywhere else and if we block off any rooms that have blankets there are no accidents. But twice over the past few months she has done this on our bed and last week she went into the basement and did this on a spare bed we keep down there. We also have blankets in her crate and she does this in her crate as well. This used to happen here and there but now it's all the time. We've stopped putting blankets in her crate for days or even a week and no accidents but when we decide she can be trusted again- pee on the blankets again. She has a dog bed in the living room where she does most of her sleeping, the crate is just a safe place we still keep available to her because it was her bed when we first got her. She never pees on the dog bed, just in the crate on the blankets. We do have another dog and a cat so I'm wondering if this could have something to do with dominance or marking territory?
Our other issue is chewing. We do keep the house doggy proofed- nothing on the floor or low tables. But sometimes a book gets left on a coffee table or the hall shoe closet gets left open an inch and we come home to a huge mess. She has a ton of toys and she gets new toys all the time so it's not a lack of toys. And we reprimand her when she does this so she knows it is wrong. But we have yelled at her for destroying a book and she has spent an hour sitting in the corner with her ears low so she knows she was bad... then later that day finds something else to try to chew on. It's like she either forgets about getting into trouble or she just doesn't care.
Any tips would be much appreciated! Thanks so much!
