So, we adopted a dog from animal control about a week ago. Usual problems when integrating one into a home. He was neutered before he left animal control. Our vet put him on steroids and anti-inflammatory as a result, so it's hard to tell if some of his behavior is related to the meds or just him acclimating to a new space.
I get home from work yesterday a bit later than the norm. Let him out of his crate and notice he's peed in his crate. Kinda of odd, but again he was in there for almost (6) hours so??????? I let him outside, take the crate apart to clean it and move on.
I'm doing a couple honey-do items in the house while trying to watch him. Then I see he's peed on the floor. At this point he's only been back inside for less than 20 minutes. By the time I clean that up, he's peed again, total of (3) accidents in the house in a 30-minute window.
Needless to say, I'm a bit pissed myself by now, I mean we just built this place, everything in it is new.
Side bar to all of this is my wife's iRobot vacuum. She bought it a few months back, I'm like yeah whatever. But it has not been functioning correctly. iRobot has sent out a new base and some other crap; she's been handling it and I'm happy to stay out of it.
She gets home from work yesterday, (it's her birthday) see's all the aftermath of piss fountain I've been dealing with and obviously isn't happy. Did I mention the house is new?
Then she looks at the app for the vacuum. It finally did function correctly yesterday. For the first time in weeks. First time since the dog has been in the house. So, the dogs crate? Wasn't there when the robot mapped the house. The vacuum enters the room where his crate is at and proceeds to bump into it, repeatedly. Probably 30 or more times as it remapped that room.
Now we can see why he peed all over, probably thought that vacuum was trying to get to him. Literally scared the piss out of him.
Moral of the story? Hell, I don't know. Maybe technology is great, until it isn't?
Pic is the vacuum's coverage yesterday. Red arrow is where his crate was.

