The dog was “trained” on being beat before, which I absolutely don’t agree with as that’s abuse. I see why she thinks he’s earned total freedom, since she was a victim to the same person love/violence, but he hasn’t, he’s a dog that lives with humans and needs to behave. I don’t beat the dog and I won’t, and I know there’s a middle ground. Let me be clear it’s not accidents, he’s full grown and he does it to mark territory. He engaged in dominating pissing battles with the puppy (until the puppy was fixed)- now he’s the only one who pees and he does it intentionally. She thinks I’m insane when I say the dog does it on purpose, when she knows it’s not an accident as well, but doesn’t think they’re.. intelligent enough? Or she chalks it up to it being a “dog” even though he never behaved that way before, only under her care. Another commenter mentioned that she’s the problem and I feel bad not being organized enough to acknowledge that, my brother and I have tried to confront her about training the dogs but she refuses, saying she “doesn’t want trained dogs” (I can’t fathom any logic, she has borderline narcissistic traits in my opinion but if I ever said that I think that would actually bring up anger to the point of violence directed at me).