My dog peed on the couch!

Yes, it is very nasty. At least in a sink, it is easy to clean up. But anywhere a pet pees is just nasty. We've thought about going to the vet and asking them about it. We just haven't had any reason to go lately and it's expensive (as you know i'm sure) to go there.

Yeah my mom pays for that kind of stuff... But, can't you just call and ask him?

We live in a house. We take him out side often - a lot more than we used to. He isn't very good at telling us when he needs to go outside so we make sure we take him outside as often as possible.

That's kinda normal in that age, time him like 20 minutes afterwards and see if that works for you. It works in here, plus we are feeding the older dog outside early in the morning and late in the day, after 5 0r 6. I hope this can work for you too.

Thanks for the idea on hose to clean the couch cushion.

Yep, dogs can be like humans in some ways. At least humans don't pee on couches though lol!

I agree, at this age it is hard to train them for anything new. We have been taking our dog out more often. Lately, we have even taken him out in the middle night. My dad wakes up sometimes in the middle of the night and notices that our dog isn't staying still so he takes him out.

I agree with you on the part where they do it when they're mad. My mom had a cat one time, he was real demanding and persnickety, he lived to be like 16-years-old and he did not have trouble controlling his functions. What he did do was poop right in the middle of her bed where she would be sure to find it after she moved from Washington State to Georgia. He only did that one time and my mom couldn't believe it. She watched him like a hawk after that. My mom is a stickler about her pets being under a vet care so he was healthy as a horse. Some time later, she was in car accident with my sister. She got banged up pretty good so I went to stay with her. She didn't stay at the hospital over night, so it wasn't like she was gone. When we got up the next morning and went out on the porch to have our coffee. I went back in to do something, and that stupid cat had peed right in the middle of her bed, and the one I was sleeping in. I think he was super ticked off because no.1, she brought me, a virtual stranger home, and no.2 she brought the weird smells from the hospital. She was so mad she told me to take him by the vet and have him put to sleep. Well I couldn't do that. Instead I brought him home, where he hid for weeks. Eventually he warmed up to me. No peeing or pooping problems for a long time. Until I made him mad, and there is was, on the bed, poop. He never peed on anything but if you made him mad, you better make sure all the bedroom doors were closed and cover the furniture with shower curtains. Fortunately he was on Science diet dry food so what he left behind was hard and dry, not the normal cat yuk. I say if any animal is doing this only when you're not around, it isn't an accident, it's intentional, they're sending a message. If it's really an accident, it's going to happen in front of us as well. I believe what your little rascal is doing is intentional.

He has lived in the house for 8 years so he has peed in the same spot for several years. About 7 months ago, my parents and I moved some furniture around and he started peeing on couch pillows so we sort of had to "retrain" him then. And he sort of stopped. Unfortunately, since he is an old dog he has trouble controlling his bladder.

My dog will come and jump up and down and start going toward the door. But he doesn't do that very often. I stay up late at night in the basement while my parents sleep upstairs. One time he came downstairs on his own in the middle of the night, and it was strange because he never leaves my mom in the middle of the night. He is a momma's boy! lol. Well, I figured out he needed to go outside, so I took him out and afterwards he went straight back to my mom!