My little one and a half year old Chi is in heat and acting a little silly. I swear I saw her lift her leg:eek: She also has been scratching the dirt behind her more aggressively and sniffing way more, but, seriously lifting her leg???
My new dog is a lifter, kind of. She squats when she has to go potty but she also goes around behind Buck and hitches up her drawers to pee where he did in the yard. She lifts half mast, hoists that side of her butt in the air, and whizzes on his whiz.
Some do. I had a young bitch here for the weekend last month and she squatted and lifted one leg at the same time. It was hilarious. I have seen bitches mark things like a telephone pole, as described above.
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Some do. I had a young bitch here for the weekend last month and she squatted and lifted one leg at the same time. It was hilarious. I have seen bitches mark things like a telephone pole, as described above.[/QUOTE]
Oh my goodness…she is doing this while wearing her little pink furry dress with bows! Goodness.
Oh yes, for sure bitches lift a leg, and mark. Not all, but some definitely.
Mine does. She always has. She will hike a le and mark in any new place we go, and out on walks.
Mine does. I think she taught my little male puppy how to lift his. She baptized his nosey little self more than once 
MrB’s parents’ Boston terrier never did until living with my male dog for a while. Don’t know if it was a learned behavior or just coincidence in timing, but she lifts almost every time now.
My female Greyhound always lifts.
She marks more than either of the boys.
My Akita hiked a leg and marked on walks, but never in her own yard that I recall. My GWP does it to a certain extent, but not like the Akita did!
Maggie (corgi) “squats” like a female, but always lifts one leg when she does, and I did see Molly (my parents’ old beagle) do it against a tree once or twice.
My late female dog did this. I had read somewhere that if there are a lot of males in the litter, the female gets a bit of extra testosterone and exhibits this mostly male trait.
I have a boxer female that lifts her leg, she also backs up to stuff she wants to pee on. She’s fixed too… but marks outside.
Yep, mine does all the time. Never seen her do a squat.
Mine squats while lifting one
my little Chi does the squat and 1 leg half cocked…and bends her body in a half circle/crescent shape:D
she is a rescue and all of her foster homes had male dogs, so I assume she learned from them.
Oddly enough she isn’t fixed (yet) and has had 1 heat (maybe more but rescue can’t be sure) so not sure if it will go away once she is spayed.
My neutered male NEVER lifted his leg, until I started walking my friend’s spayed female while said friend was very pregnant.
The female dog lifts on everything. She is worse than any male dog I have ever had. She is also VERY dominate and tries to rule the roost.
I like that both of my male dogs ‘squatted’, they both hardly ever marked, Riley will only mark once in the AM walk with the female dog.
yeah, a lot of females lift their legs. Particularly spayed females.
Males and female dogs both urine-mark, they just tend to use a different approach. Many males use the Pee Everywhere approach and dribble pee all over the place, and many females use the Best Spot approach and carefully mark two to three places per walk.
Spayed females tend to act a lot like males and much more likely to Pee Everywhere.
Since we humans don’t have the slightest idea as to what exactly the dogs are doing when they pee mark it’s hard to criticize it. I can’t figure it out. They clearly aren’t marking territory, since they tend to mark more when OFF their own territory. Not sure it relates to dominance at all.
I think they might be talking to each other, much like people posting messages on boards.
We had up to six dogs, our smallest toy poodle was a grump from the time she was a puppy and the indisputable boss everyone obeyed.
She would run around marking with half lifted leg, behind the rest of them, male or female, if our house dogs or friend’s ones, more intent than many male dogs are.
The funny thing, we had a short hedge around the yard and she would get in there to do #2, with her butt sticking out of the hedge.
That dog was really one of a kind and was an obedience dog and our best tracking dog.
Ginger will almost stand on her two front legs to get that mark high!
Paula
