Why do dogs urinate everywhere to mark their territory as soon as they go outside?
Why Does My Dog Need to Pee on Absolutely Everything the Second We Step Outside? My dog Biscuit and I have a ritual every morning. I open the front door, full of optimistic energy, ready for a brisk 20-minute walk. And then... we stop. Three seconds in. At the same lamppost. Every. Single. Day. He sniffs it like it contains the secrets of the universe. Then he pees on it. Then he sniffs it again, as if checking his own work. Then we walk four more steps to the next patch of grass, and the whole performance starts over. By the time we've made it to the end of the street — maybe 80 metres — he's already peed five times. I've counted. I used to just laugh it off. Dogs are weird, right? But one afternoon I got genuinely curious. Like, actually curious, not just "haha funny dog" curious. What is going on in his head? What is he actually doing? Turns out, the answer is way more interesting than I expected. So here's the thing that blew my mind first. Dogs...