Has you dog ever had a spite pee?

United States
May 5, 2007 7:19pm CST
Do you suppose that dogs are capable of defacating or urinating inside your home to spite you for something you have or have not done? When I was a child I didn't let the dog out before I went to school and he defacated on my bed. Has anybody else has a similar experience?
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@budsr03 (2350)
• Canada
6 May 07
Dogs are spiteful for sure,because i have had a dog pee on my side of the and also in my shoes. LOL! All this because i was being to strict with her. Our dog knew who the boss was, but she was defiant. After i started showing her more affection, she completely changed her behaviors. They know, they're not dumb. Take care Whisp.
• United States
6 May 07
I have had similar experiences. lol.
• United States
6 Oct 09
My 5 month old pug/toy fox terrier has started peeing on our feet if we don't give him some of what we are eating, and also on the kitchen floor!!
@miamilady (4910)
• United States
9 Aug 07
Yes, I think my dog used to do that when she was still pretty young. She wanted to be on the furniture, including my bed and I wanted to teach her to stay off the furniture. She sometimes would pee out of fear or nervousness, so if I would scold her to get off, she would leave a dribble of urine, wherever she was. I had to learn not to scold her, but to call to her as if we were going to take her for a walk or something. One time though, it wasn't just a dribble from fear. I guess I had scolder her a few times and when I wasn't paying attention she got up on the bed and peed on my side. I'm pretty sure she was trying to send me a message. Guess what? She won the battle. I was the only one in the house shooing her off of the furniture, so I finally gave up. She pretty much runs the house as much as anyone else who lives here now.
• United States
18 Mar 08
Since you were the only one in the household shooing her off the furniture she was confused and that is most likely why she urinated on your side of the bed. When training a puppy or dog it is very important for everyone in the household to be on the same page; use the same call words and stick to the same rules. We have to be as consistant as possible since we can't explain to them why it is we want certain things at certain times and when we arn't consistant our pets become confused and react in strange (and often discouraging) ways. When it comes to submissive urination you did the right thing! Some dogs will urinate when excited or scared and the best way to stop that is to stop their reaction by altering our behaviour first!
• United States
17 Mar 08
I had to laugh because its not my dog, its my cats that do spiteful things. Not to the point of defecation or urination, but they can be spiteful when they don't get their way. So yes, I feel that animals are capable of doing this.
@mmiller26 (1930)
• Canada
6 May 07
My mom and dad's cat used to do this. She seemed to have a real hate-on for my dad, and would routinely piss or crap on only his things. She was smart enough to know what belonged to my mom or us kids, and would onl do it on his things.
• United States
6 May 07
lol. I think our pets are cleverer than we think.
• United States
6 May 07
Dogs are not spiteful creatures. They're not going in the house to make you mad. The "something you have or have not done" is you have done a bad job of establishing yourself as the dominant one in the household and the dog is merely trying to take over your role as "top dog" in the family. Marking territory is just something that dogs do to establish a "pecking order" so to speak. Chances are, if you forgot to let the dog out before school, he went in the house because he just couldn't hold it anymore! Dogs lack the ability to make such complicated connections like "Oh, he went to school again! Darn him! If I poop on his bed that'll show him!" They are more of an action/reaction type of animal. Not so much on the cognitive abilities. . They do have an uncanny ability to determine whether or not you are doing an adequate job of being dominant, so chances are if he's still lifting in the house after the housebreaking phase of life has passed, than its up to you to do some problem solving and get back on track as leader of your household.
• United States
6 May 07
Well I was twelve at the time of the story of the dog pooping on my bed, and I can't claim I knew about thse things at the time. I watch the Dog Whisperer now though, lol.
• United States
18 Mar 08
Actually dogs do not do things out of spite. It may seem like they do but the emotion they are actually responding to at these instinces is stress. Their timing may seem uncanny and we interpret it as spite but whatthey are actually trying to tell us is: hey, I'm not sure what's going on, I don't like it, so please fix it! When your dog defectaed on your bed it was probably becuase you were the last person he saw and your bedroom was where you spent most of your time so it was a natural place for him to await your return. You were the one who was responsible for taking him out and he knew this so when he could no longer hold it he left it where you could easily find it. Some pets also find a single person in the household to be dominant over and therefore seek out that persons items to destroy or relieve themselves on but more often than not when they do these things that "they know" will get them in trouble it's do to them reacting to stress.
@Mickie30 (2626)
13 Oct 07
Hi I have a cat and 4 rats they are good, but I am scared of dogs soI wouldn't have one.
@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
9 Aug 07
Well we got a dog one time from a woman,a small boxer and we found out why she didnt want it.When you would leave it alone in the house,it would go do its business on the bed(my bed)no one elses,only mine.The dog went back fast to its original owner.But all my other dogs never did,i think because i got them when they were a puppy and they know to come tell me when they want out.