Started weeing in the house...

z.n

To me it sounds like he is frightened- likely something scared him in the garden (or even mid-wee) and now he is adverse to going out in the dark. The bolting back indoors is a dead giveaway. Nothing to do with it being colder-ever seen a puppy play in the snow? I don't think dogs can see that well in the dark- mine are always very well behaved when walking at night and stay closer than in the day. So anything that banged (fireworks) would be that much scarier than in the day.

My gsd is frightened whenever I open a particular cupboard door- one time an avalanche of pots and pans came out and ever since she flinches and backs away whenever i reach for that door. She knows she is being silly, but better safe than sorry. An old rescue dog would bolt home from wherever she was if there was a loud bang- and could only cope with firework night from the safety of under a draped over duvet next to our bed.

So I would go back to basics- go outside with puppy, praise and treat any productions, and don't let him rush back indoors-maybe play a little treat motivated game before coming back in or something.

supermassive

z.n wrote: »

To me it sounds like he is frightened- likely something scared him in the garden (or even mid-wee) and now he is adverse to going out in the dark. The bolting back indoors is a dead giveaway. Nothing to do with it being colder-ever seen a puppy play in the snow? I don't think dogs can see that well in the dark- mine are always very well behaved when walking at night and stay closer than in the day. So anything that banged (fireworks) would be that much scarier than in the day.

My gsd is frightened whenever I open a particular cupboard door- one time an avalanche of pots and pans came out and ever since she flinches and backs away whenever i reach for that door. She knows she is being silly, but better safe than sorry. An old rescue dog would bolt home from wherever she was if there was a loud bang- and could only cope with firework night from the safety of under a draped over duvet next to our bed.

So I would go back to basics- go outside with puppy, praise and treat any productions, and don't let him rush back indoors-maybe play a little treat motivated game before coming back in or something.

He's a jack russell. His natural reaction when anything 'scary' rears its head is to chase it and kill it (although he often brings in frogs and watches them hop on the kitchen floor, so maybe not 'kill').

Knowing his personality, I don't think he's fearful of anything outside.

Cyberman60

It couldn't be the noise of fireworks making him nervous ?

supermassive

Cyberman60 wrote: »

It couldn't be the noise of fireworks making him nervous ?

He loves them. My Border Collie I had from age 6-21, he reacted to the noise like they were being aimed at his head, so that'd be the first thing I was familiar with.. but this is completely baffling me.

Unless he's doing it for attention. He gets all my attention anyway, little sprout!

dirty_magic

Has he started drinking more? I don't want to worry you but our old dog did this and we found out he was diabetic.

It's probably just a bad habit he's picked up, (our dog was old) but we didn't find out our dog had diabetes until he was poorly because we didn't link the two.

ETA: My mom's dog doesn't like going for a wee if it's raining. If it's wet the best way to make him go is take him down the road a little bit until he smells something he just has to wee on! You could try that if you think it's because he's not going properly in the colder weather.

supermassive

Right. So last night I put an old door mat down in the garden. He ran out to it, had a wee, sniffed about and came in. My dog doesn't like the floor. That's the problem. Bloody nora.

elsien

Mutt used to go out and do pretend wees in bad weather. Out the door, dip of the rear end, then scoot straight back in. At which point I'd turf her back out, tell her to do it properly, she'd heave a great sigh then do a flood worthy of Noah's ark.
Gotta love 'em.

Lieja

My boy will do a wee in the house if he's annoyed at me for something. He seems to have a very strong sense of what he deems 'fair' and if he's subjected to any 'unfairness' he'll get me back by peeing where he knows he shouldn't.

Or that's my take on it anyway. He did go through a stage like yours at around the same age and he seemed to grow out of it after a few weeks of going back to basic training.