Our Aussie Is Peeing On Our Guest Beds!

by Gabby
(Pittsburgh, PA)

We have an Australian Shepherd mix from the Humane Society. He was about six years old when we got him and is now about nine. He seems to have a dominant personality because he does not really like other male dogs and he marks his territory constantly everywhere we go. Our biggest and most confusing problem we have had with him is that he pees on our guest beds. After a guest stays over, if we leave the air mattress out for longer than a day or two we find he has peed on it.

Most recently, he has peed three times on our brand new futon which my brother slept on once during a weekend visit. This pattern seems to be with guest beds only, because he does not pee anywhere else in our house. He is very well housebroken! We have now gated off our basement (where our futon is), but twice we have accidentally forgotten to close it and later found pee! I've been cleaning the futon with Nature's Miracle which is supposed to prevent resoiling, but that doesn't stop him. What should we do?

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