Rawhide Dog Chews & Housebreaking Problem? Anyone Else Experienced This ?

by James
(Topeka,Ks.)

What I really want to know is " Has anybody else had this experience ?"

I own a 4mnth old half Lab half Sharpei puppy that has been fairly cooperative and quick to housebreak except if I give him a rawhide chewbone.

If he doesn't have a bone he goes to the door and is very good about going outside to urinate. If I give him a rawhide chewbone it almost seems like he is unaware he needs to urinate, he just starts peeing right where he is standing. This has not happened once but enough times that it seems almost constant.

No rawhide chewbone, No pee in house.
Give rawhide chew and no self awareness of needing to pee.

Is this some kind of weird side effect of rawhide on some dogs. I have raised a great many dogs from pups and I have never encountered anything like this before.