“Frequent urination creates a cyclic, obsessive structure that your dog (and you) don’t realize you’re enabling.” ~ from my previous blog post
In my previous blog about dysfunctional dogs frequently urinating during walks, I write about the need to show your dog that you, their human parent, are consistently providing subtle and overt ways that you are ‘always protecting them’. It’s important to comprehend there are common psychological processes and developmental processes common in all endothermic, and to a lesser degree, exothermic biology. Both warm and cold blooded animals think cogently relative to the sophistication of their species. The structure of higher functioning brains share common mapped construction and development. The abstraction of consciousness presents as a dilutive scale (relative to humans being at 100%).
Your dog thinks. How you think about them…well, that is up to you.
Don’t overthink. Let your intuition develop. And you’ll get it…
In my blogs and social media posts, I write about the psychological structures of physical and verbal behavior of dogs that is relational to human behavior. Though my descriptions sometimes tend to be rather technical, keep in mind this isn’t as onerous or mysterious as you might wonder.
I feel it’s important to get a little technical in today’s blog. It’s important that I share the why of ‘why my methods work with every dog‘ when relating to frequent urination outdoors.
The most crucial element of understanding your dog’s overall behavior is to apply what you know about human behavior…onto the behavior of your dog. This isn’t ‘anthropomorphizing conjecture’. This is taking what you intuitively know and combining what you’ve learned in school and reliable online sources about human psychology and behavior…and applying that at a dilutive scale with your dog.
Dogs (and cats and other functionally sentient animals) comprehend that you’re not ‘one of them’. Animals rudimentarily comprehend cross-species cohabitation as a codependent structure. A sort of ’emotional isomorphism’ which relates to our evolutional relationship with dogs.
Even if you think that caring for your dog isn’t as explicitly defined to you as it is to me. I specifically choose to downtrain very dangerous dogs weighing upwards of 200 lbs that have intentionally tried to kill humans. Because all behavior is psychological. It’s not hunger that motivates a dog’s dysfunctions…it’s how they feel in relation to the scary human world they live in.
The most extremely dangerous Great Dane in North America endured psychological dysfunctions at extremely unique, specific levels of behavioral structures. A true predator turned down by well-respected leaders and icons in the field all citing their fears that Walter (Tonka) will kill them or their staff. They unanimously informed the affluent Southampton Animal Shelter (New York) there was ‘no amount of medication’ that would stabilize Walter.
Within 4 days, Walter was off-leash playing with other dogs and letting strangers pet him. For a dog weighing 183 pounds and 3 feet 2 inches at his shoulders, it was important that I made sure he felt safe. This seems contrarian to Walter’s massive size and history. By establishing parenting protocols means letting Walter know I was always watching out for him…so he didn’t have to defend or protect himself. When all he wanted to do was play and not be beaten.
The dysfunctions predacious dogs exhibit have all developed from lesser behaviors. What your ‘mouthy, bite-y’ dog is doing at 4 months of age are traits that can develop into significant dysfunctions over a relatively short period of time.
As much as Walter far, far exceeded ‘bite level 6 (causing death)’ in psychological dysfunctions, I knew his emotional issues were simple to destructure and remedy. Despite his attempt to kill one of their shelter workers by dragging her into his kennel at night and attacking her, (every) dog’s fears are always the root of negative behavior. It’s a matter of accurately aggregating nuanced behaviors happening at ‘instinct speed’. It’s not generally describing ‘fear’…but what is the foundational causation of the tendrils supporting (his) fears.
On walks, Walter would frequently stop to urinate. Same with Nero, Mingki and every other extremely dysfunctional dog. It’s not Walter ‘marking’ or being dominant. One of Walter’s primary worries is that he may be left behind (abandonment) and need to find his way home. Urine is left in key migratory positions as his GPS coordinates to find his way back home.
It’s impossible to support the conjecture that frequent urination is a dominant behavior.
There are many other fears that your dog is unable to cogently process. Using human analogies is the best way for me to explain. Take a child that’s afraid of thunder and lighting. He doesn’t know why they’re afraid because it’s beyond their cognitive capacity to process.
Approaching dogs as unable to comprehend ‘simple things’ far too often results in a negative future for them. With 6 million dogs killed annually in North America for straightforward dysfunctions of behavior, my blog intends to leave a legacy of my work for loving dog parents to reference.
A dog frequently urinating does so because of issues of insecurities, un-security, self-esteem and/or self-confidence, abandonment…and the list truly goes on and on. The difference between humans and (animals) is your dog doesn’t have relational comprehension. The child can articulate verbally. Your dog can only show you how they feel by the way they behave. Their nonverbal fluency is constantly communicating to you and the rest of their environment of how they feel.
Figuring out why and what, is easier than you think. Simply thinking in terms of human psychological comparatives is actually easy. When my dog parents stopped guiltily asking themselves ‘why and how did my dog get like this’…that’s when the euphoria of awareness hits them. That’s when they realize their dog comprehends like a child yet will core down to basic survival emotive templates for efficiency. That’s when you start trusting your intuition.
In domestic environments, your dysfunctional dog knows they are part of your loving family. Yet, their insecurities are no different than that of the child. The difference is that you can ‘talk’ to the child and help them figure out why the thunder scares them.
With your dog, well…you don’t speak ‘arf arf, bark bark, woof woof’!
Another human analogy…if your child is constantly instigating and fighting with their brother or sister ‘for no reason’, you intuitively know there’s something else wrong…perhaps at school or with one of their friends or your child is being harassed by a bully. Your child can articulate through their amazing skill of ‘talking’. You can figure out what’s wrong by asking the right questions…you can spend more time with your child to help them feel safe so they don’t need to fight.
A different behavior such as your dog’s innate prey drive can also be downtrained and stabilized. I’ve done so with the predatorial intakes that have come through my registered nonprofit rescue org Arf Arf Bark Bark Rescue Foundation. The importance of lifelong parenting consistency, downtraining and stabilization is always first and foremost…crucial. By proving to your scared dog that you’re constantly watching for potentially dangerous threats to them will slowly rebuild their sense of confidence in…you.
Of Course, It’s Tiring To Always Parent Your Dysfunctional Dog
The uniqueness of my blog is that I’m sharing what I’ve had no choice but to learn. Being alone with giant dogs that will kill professionals within 40 minutes isn’t bravery or courage. It’s doing what’s ethically and morally right in my life. Since I don’t need to use treats, training aids, corrective collars nor medications…my uniquely successful skill set has developed a highly proficient and efficient set of parenting protocols. I’ve learned to destructure behavior manifesting at the dog’s ‘blazing speed of instinct’. If I didn’t learn, I’d be dead.
Behavior is psychological. Not hungry.
As I’ve mentioned, every dog I choose to intake has been declined by North America’s leaders in animal behavior and academia. They’ve used treats, corrective collars, obedience, LIMA…everything that’s out there has been tried to no avail. What I have learned applies across the entire dysfunction spectrum. The “worse” behaviors such as killing another dog upstreams to the simpler issues such as from your puppy being mouthy.
The canine species fights to the death over food. Darwinism is irrefutable. Behavior is psychological. Not hungry.
What’s My Dog’s Problem Then?
Your dog doesn’t have the gift of voice. Being that dogs are nonverbal 99.8% of the day, everything they do is communicated in their body behavior. I term that ‘nonverbal fluency’. Understanding communication isn’t as blatant as talking. It’s focusing on your dog’s behaviors with less pressure on you to automatically know what’s wrong…but to focus on how do you help your scared dog feel safe.
The physical behaviors of your dog are profoundly informative and at such highly nuanced movements. Their entire body is psychosomatically manifesting their internal psychological processing. The dog that frequently urinates does so because he/she doesn’t feel safe outdoors. This facet of their agoraphobia can be downtrained and stabilized.
Your dog’s frequent urination are key traits of those defined fears.
In part three, I’ll share the basics that will allow you to teach your frequently urinating dog that you are safely parenting them. My parenting protocols address psychological root structures of these behavior with simple, logical parenting protocols refined through over 25,000 hours alone with all types of predatorial dogs.
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