Why do dogs always pee up against trees / lamp posts?

[Dave7]

Men have only two legs, and some fail to manage this after a few pints

Thats why I take 1/4 Viagra every day

 

[Roadrider48]

Thats why I take 1/4 Viagra every day

A 1/4? Lucky to get past your shoes.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Some say that if a dog is constantly peeing against your gate post you can pee against it yourself to scare the dog off. I tried this by peeing in a pint pot then pouring it over the gate post. It didn't work. Apparently you have to actually pee on the gate post, not just pour your pee over it. Oh and it has to be that cloudy yellow pee not the clear pee you get when when you've had a lot to drink.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I knew a dog that preferred to pee on nettles rather than anything else. He would deliberately walk over them, rubbing up against them and then pee. In winter it was the nettle stem or a bramble that got the same treatment but he was happiest with nettles and the taller the better. It helped he was an Irish wolf hound but we always wondered if he ever got stung there!

 

[raleighnut]

I knew a dog that preferred to pee on nettles rather than anything else. He would deliberately walk over them, rubbing up against them and then pee. In winter it was the nettle stem or a bramble that got the same treatment but he was happiest with nettles and the taller the better. It helped he was an Irish wolf hound but we always wondered if he ever got stung there!

That reminds me of a time when my ex and I were out on a walking holiday in the Derbyshire Dales. Pamela was 'caught short' (nothing to do with the 4-5 pints we'd consumed at lunch) so nipped behind a bush instructing me to "Keep an eye out for walkers" whilst she dropped her shorts and squatted down........................................................right on a nettle.
Unfortunately (and probably because I was 3 parts pished at the time) I found this hysterically funny and she spent the rest of the afternoon glowering at me. Made friends laugh when they asked us "How was the holiday then" in the pub and I told em that tale though.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

That reminds me of a time when my ex and I were out on a walking holiday in the Derbyshire Dales. Pamela was 'caught short' (nothing to do with the 4-5 pints we'd consumed at lunch) so nipped behind a bush instructing me to "Keep an eye out for walkers" whilst she dropped her shorts and squatted down........................................................right on a nettle.
Unfortunately (and probably because I was 3 parts pished at the time) I found this hysterically funny and she spent the rest of the afternoon glowering at me. Made friends laugh when they asked us "How was the holiday then" in the pub and I told em that tale though.

we similarly know of 2 NZ female tourers to the UK who established the hard way (and identical way) what a nettle was!

 

[Paulus]

I hated that when my dog was a puppy. It's a common phenomenon with a name i cannot quite or want to remember.

Coprophagia.

 

[KEEF]

I don't know why but I'm glad they do. Cats piss in your headphones.

Wait till your cat has pished on the electric hob and you put a pan on to heat

 

[Globalti]

The peeing on nettles bit is more likely to be because historcally that's always been where people or dogs have peed. Nettles grow in nitrate-rich soil, which is why you'll always find clumps in places where working men would stop on their way home from the pub.

Edit: and their dogs as well, I guess....!