How to Stop Your Dog Peeing On Your Bed

The easiest way to stop your dog from peeing on your bed is to learn why they do it first. Understanding the ‘why’ means you can get to the issue at the root instead of just treating what you see as the problem behaviour.

There are a couple of different main reasons why your dog might be weeing on your bed. There is a medical element that you should rule out beforehand to make sure there’s no health reason making your pooch unable to hold their urine for periods. The behavioural reasons why your dog might be staining your bed sheets are a little more numerous, but we can help you determine the cause by going through each, one by one.

Territory marking is common in males who have not yet been neutered. If you catch your pup in the act and it looks like they’re weeing against your bed on purpose or if they keep peeing in the same few sports, it’s likely to be this.

It’s a common behaviour in adolescent dogs, but can occur in dogs of all ages, especially if they are entire. Entire dogs will have higher levels of testosterone so will generally conduct more “male dog” behaviours like marking. While neutering your dog can help reduce the need to make areas, they feel are valuable to them, it will also take time and reinforcing their toilet training to rid the need entirely.

It’s not uncommon for dogs to urinate when they get excited. Puppies are especially prone to it, but they can continue to do it into their adult and senior years. To stop this happening in your bed, you can prevent any excitable events from happening there. Don’t start a game with your pup in bed or do anything besides sleep and relax to avoid any excited wees.

If your pooch is the type of dog to wee a little when you arrive home or whenever you have visitors, you can manage this by reducing the arousal of those situations. Get your pup used to you walking into the house and straight out into the garden. It will keep excitement low and if they do need to toilet, you’re giving them the perfect opportunity to outside. A pee break before bed can really help put a stop to excited urinating in the bedroom.

Stress and anxiety can cause accidental urination. If your pup is put in a position where their body goes into fight or flight, they will often empty their bladder without it being a conscious effort.

Other scenarios where your pup might be anxious include when dogs suffer from separation related behaviours. Being away from you can be stressful and they might want to curl up in a place that most smell like you which can very often be your bed. An anxious dog may not want to leave the area that most smells like you so they may have the odd accident instead.

You can find lots of calming products to help with anxiety in your beloved companions. The Adaptil Pheromone Diffuser helps by releasing pheromones into the environment that promotes calm feelings in your four-legged friend. They can really make the difference between a pup that spends most of the day worried and one that will snooze away happily!

Whilst urinating on your bed may seem like a one off, if it’s not normal behaviour for your pooch to do then there may still be something worth checking into. For dogs who are usually fully toilet trained and don’t have accidents, just a single wee on the bed might be enough to indicate that something isn’t right.

Dogs will usually try to wait to be let outside when they are toilet trained and failing that will toilet near the door, so going on your bed indicates that they really were in a hurry to relieve themselves. Urinary infection can cause dogs to go to the toilet more and with urgency, so it’s worth checking with your vet or popping into The Community Pet Clinic to check to make sure they don’t need medication for an infection.

While each cause might have a different solution, there are also general things you can do to help prevent it from reoccurring. Management is sometimes the best solution and making sure that you supervise your dog in distracting them away, if they look like they might want to go to the toilet near your bed can help break the habit.

When you can’t supervise your pooch and have eyes in the back of your head, baby gates are great for managing the spaces they are and aren’t allowed to venture into. If they can’t go into your bedroom alone then you can always have an eye on them when they’re with you.

Lastly but by no means an afterthought is the clean-up of any urine from your bed. Cleaning any wee helps to reduce the behaviour. If an area smells like pee, then your pup is more likely to pee there again. Not only do you need to clean it, but it should be cleaned with a pet safe cleaning products that contains the right enzymes to destroy any odour left behind.

You can get specific cleaners designed to tackle urine like Furbulosa Pet Urine Destroyer which will help make sure your bed doesn’t become a regular pee spot for your pup.

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