Reply #2: my lab cross was a shelter puppy

[northernlights]

he doesn't always bother to lift his leg. A couple times he's accidentally peed on one of his front legs, usually when it's dark and cold and late. I just walk him through snow to get it clean.

My newest rescue pup is almost a year old and doesn't always bother to lift his leg either.

They both crouch down and pee when they don't feel like lifting a leg. It seems to be a bit of laziness to me. When there are stranger dogs around they are more likely to behave like "manly" dogs.

I don't think either has been abused, although the new pup may have been abandoned. I don't know his history at all, other than he was a couple days from being gassed in GA when I pulled him.