7 month pup urinating in crate

This is my 1st post on this forum. I have been reading and it appears that ya'll have some good advice to give and I could really use some.

I have 2, 7 month old Great Pyrenees puppies. They are house babies. My male has been urinating in his crate for about 2 months. It doesn't matter if he is in it for 15 minutes or 5 hours, just the longer he is in the more he goes. He will go and then lay down it it. He seems not to mind being soaked in his own urine. He did not do this for the 1st three months even if he stayed in for 7 hours or overnight. I took him to the Vet. and she could not find anything physical wrong, other than a small amount of protien in his urine. Just as a precaution she prescribed anti-inflammatory meds and antibotics for 10 days. He slowed down abit and even stayed dry a night, but when the meds ended he returned to his constant habit. When he is not in his crate he rarely has an accident and he goes outside every 3 to 4 hours. He does not squat or hike when he goes, he stands straight. He is having to be bathed at least twice a day, which is bad for his coat and skin not to mention his white hair is becoming stained yellow. We have caught him in the act and tried to get him to stop so we can take him out, but he ignores us and continues going even while he is coming out of the crate. His crate has always been to his size. We even tried puting him in a crate with her and we ended up with 2 wet pupies.
Now, a little household info. The other puppy is his sister. I had a 8yr. old male Pyr, a 5yr. old male Golden Ret. and a 7yr. old female Cocker Spaniel living in the house when I got them, as well as, a 4yr. old female Himi cat. The are all completely house trained. They all get along real well and play together. They are all given a lot of attention by the 5 members of my family. The 2 pups are very attached to one another. They display seperation problems when they are seperated.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I either have to have some new ideas or I am going to have to find him a ranch to live on and I don't want to have to give him up, because outside of this problem he is wonderful. Sorry so lengthy.

 

I assume the two pups are crated separately... I'm thinking this sounds kind of like a separation problem. I had a female that peed in her crate like that...(among other things) and she had bad separating anxiety that we had to work through. I'd take him to the vet one last time to check those levels just to be sure...and then visit a bit about separation anxiety and see if the vet as options you might consider (trainer or meds)... Likely the deal might be with Pyrs is that you need to place them together and give them more space...a job perhaps... I know Pyrs NEED NEED NEED to have a job... There's a couple Pyr owners on the board who may also have other ideas.

 

One person who comes to mind is 2pyrs, maybe you can try pming him to see if it is a pyr thing?
But I think it could be something it "learned" as a puppy before it came to you. What sort of breeder or home or wherever did they come from? bc a lot of puppies that come from puppy mills and such do this and it needs to be corrected although it takes a lot of patience. There have been other posts here on correcting that. Try doing a search on it (although think the searching on here is tough, so hopefully someone who knows which one I am talking about will put it on!)
As for keeping him dry maybe you could try something extra absorbent on the bottom of the cage?
Good Luck, keep us updated and show pics! You have so many babies!

 

Im thinking that it could be a behavioural poblem, habit, now that he's doing it constantly, but Im wondering if he is neutered, you have other dogs in the house, he's at that age where he is starting to come into maturity and it might be a bit of 'marking his territory'.

 

Thanks for the advice. I changed his kennel and put a bed in with him. The problem seems to be cured.