Date Posted:15:31:41 06/22/09 Mon Author:Dan G. Subject: Re: Peed on our bed!!?? In reply to:
jan mitchell
's message, "Re: Peed on our bed!!??" on 13:36:10 06/22/09 Mon
People have a tendency to treat their dogs as kids and they anthropomorphise their behaviors. Dogs can't talk, so we're left figuring out what they're thinking. And when people are attached to their dogs, they can sometimes get very creative in their interpretations.
These are not kids and they don't get pissed and take revenge on their owners. They don't do things to spite you.
A dog can sometimes kill and even eat their own offspring. If you're alone with the dog and you die at his side, in a couple of days, he'll eat you. This is the reality of what a dog is. He "loves" you because you're a resource. All of that said, they have something special about them that no other animal does IMO. It comes from their social intelligence and the more you work with them, the more you can appreciate their reality. Or one can continue to live in the happy delusion that a dog is a kid. They're not, they're dogs. They may misbehave, show jealousy, get angry, get excited, etc., etc. but they do so differently than humans. They have a very basic emotional structure, nowhere near as complex as humans. Which is half of the attraction to them.
A male dog peeing in a bed is a very good sign that he's either reaffirming his status or trying to move it up. Much safer to assume that on a message board, then it is to assume it was just nerves. Bottom line, find a good trainer to help you. Easier said than done and you probably won't know a good one until you're a decent one yourself, but se la vie.
