pooping on Furniture!

[KathyLK]

My 8 month has recently both peed and pooped on my furniture! I have another Cairn (2 yrs) and am told this is "marking behavior"- anyone else had this happen and how did you deal with it?

[toomanypaws]

My 3 yr old and 9 mth old cairns have matching beds that they sleep in during naptime and recently bedtime. I take the 9 mth out by 6 a.m. and she goes outside. Well, the other morning when I went to get her, she was sitting in one side of her bed w/ her ears back. I looked to find that she had pee'd the bed. I took her bed away and she is now back to sleeping in her crate at night.

I'm not totally sure why your cairn did this but until he can be trusted, I'd keep him babygated on tile or crated when he can't be watched. Something I notice w/ puppies, when they have to go, they have to go now! I especially have to watch my 9 & 4 mth old when they're playing in the house. The 3 yr old is great and will run to the door and bark, but the younger ones sometimes just stop playing and have this look on their face so I quickly ask if they have to go out and immediately take them.

[kayharley]

Our usual scenerio is I let my two girls on my bed at night while I read or watch TV (they love Nick at Nite) Winnie has her spot at the foot of my bed, OFF my feet and Madison likes to lie next to me. Winnie is old so I have to lift her up, Madison is a 1 year old terror and jumps up herself.

So Monday night there they are relaxing and I enter my bedroom only to find Madison lying next to Winnie with her ears back and her eyes down. Didn't even have to look to know she wet the bed. Thankfully it was only a small amount and didn't go through much but still....I had to strip the entire bed, do laundry at 10:00 and now my bed is off limits!

Why do they do what they do? Sad thing is I miss her cuddly little furry body next to mine before sleep.

[wags]

Maybe she was saying, "This bed is mine too!"

Sometimes I think it would be easier if we all lived in the woods and slept on leaves and straw

[CallisMom]

Calli has peed the sofa and the bed - she was DEFINITELY marking - both times she started "digging" quickly and then peed where she was "digging'. I notice that she wants to do this in places where it must really smell of US - the beds, the sofa, fabric chairs . . .

[Milopup]

My 10 month old is usually okay with not peeing in the bed, but every once in a while he still has an accident in the crate; the accidents may occur overnight or after a long nap. Is this normal (like "wetting the bed" with little kids) or is there some possible problem?

Thanks.

[kayharley]

Yes.....the digging!!! I forgot about that part. It's so cute and I get such a kick out of it but if it is done as a warning as for what's coming next, I am now forewarned.

[Guest posting as: osuvicki]

Here I was reading this link all smug....Grace would never do this if I watch her...and yesterday she wet my brand new lovely couch....and like 5 hours later my brand new lovely rug. Sigh. Thank goodness I HAD read these posting or I would have thought I had the worst dog in the world....but instead I know she is just normal. I yelled at her and she put her head down and ran for the back door deeply embarrassed. I think she did it because in the morning I thought the couch smelled TOO much like her and I sprayed it with Fabreeze....and I think she wanted it smelling of her........

[CarCarDawn]

Hi! Riley has also peed on my bed and new rugs - - he was definitely marking!! I tried to wash what I could and then sprayed "Nature's Miracle" all over - - really saturated the area - - haven't had an accident for quite some time!

[MikeC]

Duffy is 9 months old now and even though they are few and far between, he still has accidents with peeing. When it happens, it is usually in his during the night or on one the the throw rugs in the kitchen. Have not had a poop in the house since he was five months old.

MikeC

[Guest Tototoo]

Toto too has also left his mark in the house. Sometimes I wonder if Nature's Miracle comes in a 55 gal drum with a hose sprayer atttachment!

He hit my couch, hit my bed and at 10 mon. he still is not house broken. I think these Cairn's are so smart in other areas they can't be perfect at house training. Remember all the great geniuses were also slow learners. Any old black lab could be house broken, but it takes a genius to balance a ball on his nose

K

[kayharley]

I love this forum!!!

Whenever I'm feeling totally frustrated by something my Madison does, I only have to pop in here and find that I am not alone. Funny thing is that I have a 11 year old Cairn but she is so extra-ordinary....never did a 10th of the things Madison does. But.....we love them all no matter what they are or what they do.

[wags]

The only poops we have in the house are the ones that are still attached to his bottom after his walks.

[bradl]

Klingons!

[wags]

Klingons-

I heard the Enterprise has a #1. But not a #2. And, come to think of it- no pets allowed either- maybe that's why.

[CarCarDawn]

Hi!!! I hate those Klingons!!!! Riley has more 1/2 baths than any dog I've ever owned!!!!!!!!!!!! Cleanest butt in town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[osuvicki]

Sally......the Next Generation had Will...who they called #2. lol.

After two days of being banned from the living room, I let Grace back in to watch TV with me last night after an 1 1/2 walk and I was SURE she was running on empty. She sat on the floor and looked at the couch and then me and the couch and me and finally decided to jump up. She actually landed already laying down with her head on her paws and stayed still like that for 15 minutes...afraid to move for fear she would get in trouble. lolol. She remembered being in trouble for wetting the couch and wasn't going to take any chances on being banned again...and then crawled over to me and nuzzled me like saying, "see mommy, I can be good...".

[osuvicki]

ohhhhhhh. After thinking about it....Will was called his #1, wasn't he.........

[Guest Cindy]

I thought I was the worst at housebreaking my 2 yr old cairn, now I see it's in the genes My little Andy does his best to do one and twos outside, but sometimes does a little two on a small rug under my coffee table. When I ask him if he did it, he looks meaningfully at my yorkie, but I don't buy it. The problem is that Andy has the sweetest face. I am so crazy about him that a few twos are bearable. How can you discipline a fuz face little guy with those brown eyes? Hard to get upset about a few pellets, at least that's what I keep telling myself. I think part of their charm is their excellent power of mischief-making coupled with their absolute joy in creating trouble. Does anyone have a cairn who does a wild banshee scream type of war cry when they are trying to pick a fight with another dog in the house? Why do the trouble makers always have a special way of being the favorite ?

[kayharley]

It's the face, those sad eyes, the ears back, the "I didn't mean it" attitude that lets us forgive. For all the bad they are capable of doing, they give back at least triple in love, companionship, humor, entertainment and loyalty.

[MikeC]

Kay, I absolutely agree. These little guys are the best.

MikeC