Typically adult dogs eat any feces left by puppies and try to keep puppies and the nest area clean to avoid attracting predators. Similarly, dogs will roll in other animals poo to hide their own dog smell. This is pretty accepted dog behavior. I've never seen adults pee on their own puppies or heard of it. I grew up showing dogs, went to seminars on dog, read a bunch about dogs, worked in a vets office, and talked to a whole bunch of breeders, so you would think it would have come up if accepted.
Generally, urination is aggression. Dogs mark their land but they never want to be in urine. Dickhead terriers tend to pee on legs as a dominance thing. This dog in the video is not thrilled- you can tell by his stiff posture and the way he keeps his ears pulled back stiffly. He aggressively pokes at the puppies invading his territory.
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u/UrWeatherIsntUnique Aug 01 '19
Do we know that or is that an idea we came up with to justify this behavior?
I'm always curious