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Male dog's anti-social behaviours
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS
Date:
01 June, 2010 |
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May 31, 2010
 Calcium
Oxalate Urinary Stones in a Chihuahua in March 2009.
The dog's urinary stones were removed and there were no
complaints from the owner at all.
I was able to follow up on this case 14 months later as
I met the owner on May 31, 2010 at the Surgery.
"How's the Chihuahua?" I asked.
"He's OK in his urination. Sometimes I do see some blood
in his urine but this is rare."
"The colour may not
be blood. It is best to get his urine checked. Does he
still go outdoors and pee a lot at the first time?"
"No," he said. "He just pees here and there in his
favourite bushes. He will pee till he has nothing to
pee. Yet he still lifts his legs to pee."
"Do you feed dry dog food anymore?" I asked.
"No more as you advised. But sometimes, when his stools
are watery. Dry dog food hardens his stools."
"Does he urine-mark inside the apartment?" I presumed he
was staying in the same place.
"No, not at all. He will go outdoors twice a day and
urine marks till he has nothing left in his bladder and
still he goes on and on."
I suspected the occasional blood in the urine could be
due to traumatic injury. So I asked the tall slim man in
his 40s: "Does the dog humps on cushions?"
"Yes," the owner said.
"He might have injured himself with too much of this
humping. Does he grip people's legs and rub against the
leg?"
I was surprised when the owner said: "He does grip my
left frequently."
"Daily?"
"Yes," the owner replied.
"You should stop him," I advised. "Or get him neutered."
"I thought the dog needs to do it. So I did not push him
away."
"The cause of blood in the urine could be due to penile
tip injury. Some male dogs have a strong behaviour to
self-stimulate. Probably he licks his scrotum too."
"Yes," the owner said.
"Neutering will remove his urge to behave this way
obsessively everyday."
"I will think about it," the owner said. It was about to
drizzle. He cycled home quickly. I was not surprised at
the anti-social behaviour of this male dog as humping is
a common observation and shown in some movies as a
humourous joke. Therefore to this owner, the behaviour
is perfectly normal.
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 P.S
Urine marking indoors is seldom tolerated by family
members, except by one more vocal person, usually the
grown up son. Some young people feels it is cruel to
sterilise the dog and so they bear with the
inconveniences of having the apartment smell strongly of
urine.
Neutering the dog as early as 6 months of age
will reduce or stop this behaviour. If your
elderly mum is the one doing the cleaning up. Do be
considerate and let her have some rest from cleaning up
chores in her silver years.
Humping and grabbing people's legs to rub against for a
long time will injure the dog's private parts. Do not
encourage such anti-social behaviour. My advice is to
get the male dog neutered.
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