Is this dominate behavior? - Page 1

Hi all, 

My question is about someone I am friends with dog. He's about four or five months old, either a shar-pei/curr dog mix or just a plain hienz 57. He is nuetered, was nuetered before they adopted him from a shelter, they've had him for about 2 months. He has recently started randomly peeing on their beds? He was sleeping in his human mommas bed, stood up and peed on her and the bed. He's also gone into her sons room and peed on his bed. He's house broken, doesn't make mistakes other than this. He doesn't push them or show any signs that I typically see from dominance issues. Are any of you familiar with this behavior? He was just put on a round of antibiotics for something(I can't remember what it was for) could that have caused this?

Thanks! 

Without seeing it, can't say for sure.

Regardless, he's choosing to do this so training/behavior modification is in order.  Going to be lots of theories and suggestions provided.  If they don't know how to train a dog, they need to find a trainer and get help.

No real answer for this can be definitively given over the internet. 

He's extremely well trained, obedience wise, they do very well with that. I told them to practice some boundary training with him, as they are already doing most(not all) of the leadership excercises with him that i'm familiar with. As well as crating him, instead of allowing him to sleep in the bed, and supervised freedom in the home, instead of just letting him wander. I've never dealt with this behavior before with any of my families shepherds or other dogs I've helped train. Only time I had to deal with a dominate/claiming peeing was my boyfriends mother's yorkie-poo that would mark my boyfriend everytime I kissed him. Practicing the leadership excersises fixed that and he now respects us both as being higher in the pack than him. 

The fact that he is still a puppy, and at 5 months may not have total control of his

bladder yet, might mean this is an 'excitement' issue.  If he does it most at particular

times could be a clue.  Find out from your friends if this 'bed-wetting' has all or mainly

been a first thing in the morning event, at waking up time.

Certainly he should not be allowed on the bed, at least until this problem stops.  Or

it may become habitual.

Just because he is so far good at obedience does not mean he is 'all growed up' yet;

it is possible there is a dominance element to this, which may be a part of the 'dog

as teenager' testing of boundaries ...

He's a baby,  put him off the bed and tell bad boy and take him outside;  check for UTI also.

Another thought - a long time ago I had a young Doberman that would pee in the house, on the bed, and even in my car, although he was well housebroken. I saw it happen a few times and really got the impression that he was unable to control it. I took him to the veterinarians and found out that the food he was eating needed to be of very high quality (back then that was Eukanuba). If he was fed Purina, something was triggered, having to do with his prostate as I recall, and he would have these peeing episodes. He never had them when I changed to the high quality food. One time I ran out of food and picked up a small bag of Purina to tide us over until I could get the Eukanuba (not sold in grocery stores back then). Almost immediately he had a peeing episode. Sorry, this was so long ago that I don't remember the details. But it had to do with the dog food.