Carrie: Just to fill you in - when males are altered here it is called neutering and females are spayed. My border collie is neutered (at 4 months) and he would always squat to pee until he started hanging out with a friend's male who taught him to lift his leg. He still prefers to squat unless he needs to "announce his presence". One time we were on vacation and had stopped to let him out to pee. He found a nice pine tree, lifted his leg real high and promptly tipped over and fell into the tree. Thought we were gonna die laughing. The best part was the expression on his face. He seemed to look around to see if anyone noticed.