Hayden is a little over a year old now and still doesn't lift his leg. He just stands there and lets it flow. Some times he will hold his back leg up just a little, but that's as far as it gets. I've grown up with mostly male dogs and they've all lifted their legs before they hit age one.

I'm so not complaining, because I don't want him to start marking!

Anyone else have late bloomers?

Bode is 8 months and I've still never seen him lift his leg.

My friend's male doberman has never lifted his leg and he's over a year old. Maybe he never will lift his leg!!!

Nanook is around 2 and never lifts his leg.

sammy is almost 3 and does his lean to pee, won't lift

I think there's lots of late bloomers lol. Lycus doesn't leg lift either.

Lucian doesn't either, and probably never will. Lol. I don't mind though. I can imagine him peeing in my neighbors yard or in my own driveway if he started lifting his leg.

I'm glad my dog isn't the only one like this lol

Feeling much better

PS. It's ok that Sammy doesn't lift, him and Hayden will match when you decide that he's coming to live with me hehe

Denali was around 15 months before he started lifting, Dakota was around 18 months...Dakota had no male influences.

Cloud, my non-husky husky lol, is a bit shy of 10 months and doesn't lift his leg.

Nunya is 14 months and has never lifted his leg.
Snoopy is seven months and squats to pee but does lift his leg to mark.

Blaze lifts his leg about half the time. Ha usually stretches and lifts one leg a bid. when peeing.

I was told that males need to be around other males to learn how to lift their leg .

i have a friend that had a golden retriever that never lifted his leg in the 12 years he was around.

It's strange, because I have two other males that lift their legs that Hayden has been around nice he was almost 8 weeks old. We are at the dog park almost everyday too and their are tons of dogs that myark their.

I was told by a vet tech that if they haven't started lifting their leg before they are neutered, they won't. Not sure if that's true or not. But she was convinced, she had her dog neutered early just for that reason.

I've known many intact males that never lift their leg. I think some just don't for whatever innate reason.

Balon is almost 11 months and sometimes lifts and sometimes doesn't.

Demon is almost 4 years old and has never lifted his leg. Looks like Hayden is in good company.

I was told by a bull mastiff owner at the dog park today that bigger dogs don't need to lift their legs to pee. Thought it was interesting enough to share!

I don't believe that it has anything to do with them being "taught" by other males dogs to lift their legs. I don't know what the reason they do/don't do it to be, so I won't say.

My oldest male never grew up around male dogs and started lifting his leg around 7 months. He's now neutered and almost 2 and still lifts his leg 90% of the time.

My youngest has been around male dogs of all ages (including Indy) that always lift to pee, and he has not once lifted his leg. He always squats. He's 8 months old.

My female lab mix always lifted. lol.

I had always thought it had to do with if they were neutered, and at what age they were neutered. Both mine were neutered at 4 months of age, and Nikko never lifted his leg, but when he was about 6 months old I saw him do it once. Now, once in a while he will lift his leg, but about 90% of the time he just stands there and pees.

Yukon however started lifting his leg when he was about 5 months old, and most of the time he goes he will lift it and pee on the bush. He will lift his leg about 75% of the time.

I don’t know what triggers them to do that, maybe it is instinct. I know Yukon didn’t learn it anywhere because he does not interact with other dogs besides Nikko very much.