My puppy the trickster

[Haus]

I'm curious to know if my puppy is a super genious, or if this trickery is common in puppies: We live in an apartment in one of the coldest places on Earth (or so it feels) and so we've been using puppy pee pads on the balcony to potty train rather than going outside. Once every couple of trips to the balcony, Lola hunkers down on a pad as if to pee, runs to the door all sprightly like she does when she's just emptied her bladder, and then sits at the door waiting to go in. Only she hasn't peed! I can't help but laugh when she does this; she's such a little bugger!

[mdenglund]

Thats really funny, our puppy does the same thing, and we too live in one of the coldest places on earth...:( She will run outside squat, looks to make sure we are watching, and runs right back in the house, not having gone! Its amazing - must come with the climate - they will do what ever it takes to get out of the cold :) - but I don't blame her. It would be great if she could use her energy to learn to go to the door when she needs to go out, so we are not taking her all of the time when she doesn't need to go! All in good time...

[lcmwest]

We have had quite the cold spell here is Chicago and Scout has been pulling this one on occasion. They are smart little nippers, aren't they? She also has dramatically increased her "accidents" during this weather. Fortunately, she and I are scheduled for some private lessons begginning in January because she has outsmarted me when it comes to this!

[slakker]

I think our Belzie does the same thing, but she does try to get a squirt or 2 out (or so it seems)... I can't imagine her compaining about the cold, we live in one of the warmest places there are in Canada...

Must be the rain she doesn't like. :confused:

[franp]

It took a while, but Dari figured out that if she urinates, I will let her go home..And she does that fake squat as well..But I am on to her..

The one thing I have realized is that if she does not want to walk, no matter what I do, she will not..So ,once she pees..that is it..She digs her feet into the ground and refuses...

The thing of it is, that at this point I know how long she can go without having a BM...And I can tell by the way she walks ,if she needs to.So, if she is walking ahead of me,at a fast pace, then she has to go..If not, then I know, to make her walk, is pointless.

Once I ask her "Do you want to go home?" she turns around and hauls butt back..That one phrase ends the walk...

[EllieMae]

Ellie does the same thing rain, shine or snow! She even does a little grunt and then you go over to see and there is no yellow snow. Little trickster. Also when she is chewing on something that you don't want her to have you go over to see and she pretends to swallow, so you turn around and she starts chewing again! She is a sneaky little bulldog!:lol:

[Dudu]

We have two little girls (Beza & Neska) and they behave similar:) Our climat isn's so cold this winter but they really don't like to freeze. Otherwise the first snow in their life was a very interesting thing for them:)

They have 5 months old now and don't understand yet where they should to pee... and love to sleep with us under the blanket:lol:

And they allways find something forbidden to chew, and swallow before You catch them!:p

[Borgan]

I never seen Luna play that pee game, but she will hold in her poo FOREVER if the weather is yucky. Then I find presents in my curtains.

[Carolyn]

Then I find presents in my curtains.


Brooke...an early Christmas gift? :lol:

[Hudson]

I wonder if it is a female thing; Tank has never faked it. On the contrary, he accelerated the process.

When we got him, the breeder warned us that the breed would not empty the bladder all at once and that we should be careful to let him pee at least twice before we assumed he was finished. Sure enough it was two times minimum at first; then moved up to three or four. All in our yard, flat on the grass, not marking anything.

Then we got the first snow. Five inches of snow and 4 inch legs. Not a happy camper. All of sudden he would stand in one place and turn a whole bunch of snow yellow and then come back to us shivvering. So he got a coat; hated that too and seemed to pee faster also. He is a little taller now and used to the cold so he is back to three, four or five detours around the front yard.

He is always good about not pooping in the house and not peeing in this crate. But pee? Somedays he is good and some days if you wait one minute past two hours then any floor is an open target.

[imogene]

Slakker and I thought it was just Belzie's way of reverting on her house training.
She doesn't do it anymore, but she would go and squat and look at us, expecting a treat (like we were dumb enough to fall for her fake-outs). Silly silly puppy.:D