Weird Dog

[sgt.davis]

I gotta a dog that pisses in his food bowl when he gets done eatn. Everyday I gotta rinse it out cause its full of pee. He is on a chain and got plenty of places to pee. Is this common?

[catch-n-tie]

ive got one that does that. hes the alpha of the yard and will piss on everything else if i let him loose. dog houses, food bowls, water bowls, everything in the yard is his and he just lets the other dogs use it. guess its there way of laying claim.

[BigAinaBuilt]

Very common! You first need to figure out why he is peeing in the bowl. How long of a chain is he on? Dog usually do not want to pee or deficate where they eat or sleep unless it has become a habit from a young age due to being confined in to small of a space with it's littermates and mother. The easiest solution is to pick up the bowl after he is done with it and he will stop his ritual. He could also be just claiming his bowl and to solve this you need to show him it is your bowl!  You can figure out how you want to go about this! Good luck!

[johnf]

i had a bmc that did that. always figured it was letting everyone know it was his.i got a sugestion drill a couple holes in it.

[sgt.davis]

When I moved him to that chain it was another dogs chain previously and he smelled it and pissed on it. That was several months ago. Surely he cant still smell him.

[T-Bob Parker]

nah bud, its not a smell thing anymore, definetly just a quirk that became a habit. either shock him out of it or drill holes in his feed bucket