I have a tri male King Charles spaniel who lifts his leg on everything … Drapes ,chair ,car tire ,anything new that’s just arrived to the house … You name it . I have had this dog for 8 years and if it wasn’t for my child .whos dog it is … I don’t know… But I have to figure out something… He is ruining my house !! I have confined him to my kitchen but seriously .its terrible… I need some advice .
Have you tried a belly band? Have you tried treating the dog like he is not potty trained and keeping him crated whenever you can’t 100% watch him and having him tethered to you when you can watch him and correcting him as he’s doing it (you don’t normally correct really when regular potty training but for this issue I’d do a correction such as a clap and a loud ‘no’ or ‘don’t’) and praising him when he goes outside.
Also, have you used a good ezyme cleaner on absolutely everything he’s pottied on?
He needs to be leashed and attached to you at all times when in the house. There is no other way to break this habit. Even then, you have to be vigilant and indeed, treat the dog as if it were a new, baby puppy and start over from the beginning with errorless house training.
Yes and yes … I use natures miracle ALOT … Just sent out one of my rugs to be cleaned …, that actually prompted me to post this and I have tried the belly band( they just look so bad) you know I feel likes it because I waited to have him neutered … Had him done at 9 months! My groomer kept saying let him get a little bigger … I have never had this problem with my labs but I’ve always neutered them at 4-5 months I fell like that is why … But he is the sweetest I have to say !!!
How long has he been doing this? Any chance of UTI causing him to pee?
Or could just be age, my older female Cocker started needing to be treated like a puppy again or she’d forget she was housebroken.
All his life … He’s smart and sneaky … I got a pair of chairs slipcovered …and for a couple days after he was staring at them through my kitchen gate like … I can’t watt to hit the corner of those because they look new and are mine !!!
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Yes and yes … I use natures miracle ALOT … Just sent out one of my rugs to be cleaned …, that actually prompted me to post this and I have tried the belly band( they just look so bad) you know I feel likes it because I waited to have him neutered … Had him done at 9 months! My groomer kept saying let him get a little bigger … I have never had this problem with my labs but I’ve always neutered them at 4-5 months I fell like that is why … But he is the sweetest I have to say !!![/QUOTE]
Uh, the belly band looks bad but piss all over your house doesn’t? In the crate, on the leash, wearing a belly band or outside. Or live with the pee, your choice.
It has nothing to do with when you got him neutered. It’s because you have allowed him to mark in the house for years.
I have a year old unaltered male and he has never lifted his leg in the house and he never will.
In order to fix this problem, you are going to need to be religiously vigilant with this dog for likely an entire calendar year before seeing improvement. Unless he is leashed to you constantly, nothing will change.
He has never been given the house to roam and had always been cratec but I have kids they don’t always close the gate and then he has his chance … Yes I guess if I have him on a leash at all times by me that would probably work … I will try that !
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Yes and yes … I use natures miracle ALOT … Just sent out one of my rugs to be cleaned …, that actually prompted me to post this and I have tried the belly band( they just look so bad) you know I feel likes it because I waited to have him neutered … Had him done at 9 months! My groomer kept saying let him get a little bigger … I have never had this problem with my labs but I’ve always neutered them at 4-5 months I fell like that is why … But he is the sweetest I have to say !!![/QUOTE]
The bolded is a bizarre reason not to use belly bands when your 8 yr old dog has been peeing in the house his whole life.
My poodle was neutered at 2 years old and he’s never marked in the house.
Just remember that you are undoing 8 YEARS of learned behaviour so it’s going to take a long time to undue and hyper vigilance b/c if you don’t catch him even just on rare occasion he’ll likely keep doing it. And if you are using corrections but not keeping 100% watch of him he may try to sneak away from you to do it to avoid the correction.
I’ve got a dog that was feral for 4 yrs. Had him neutered at around 4-5 yrs of age. Never marked in house.
I agree that it’s not the neutering age but a learned behavior.
It’s never too late to train them - belly bands on unless he’s either tethered to you or gated in a small area. Dogs generally won’t pee in “their” living space, so make his available space smaller. Once you gain success with one area, you can try to expand to a larger area, but with quick reprimands if he looks like he’s going to lift his leg.
My dogs will all use the basement as a toilet if they get access to it; they don’t live there, they don’t care, and why not? That’s why they don’t get to be in that area.
I would not blame it on late neutering as many people have unneutered dogs that don’t mark in their house (or other indoor areas). I had a full male lab until he passed away at the age of 16.
I got a German Shepherd from rescue late last summer and he marks in the house too. I feel your pain…
Thank you Chism … I also have males Labs … They are perfect … Never marked or had any of this.
I have Never had an issue with this … This cocker … This his deal … Don’t know what I did or did not do with him . You would think that from some of the posters … That I "allowed " this … Ummmm…I don’t think so…, it’s just he’s very very dominate or something …and that he must mark … But thanks for hearing me … Sometimes you get "yelled"at When all you want to hear is someone say … I know what that’s like… Thanks again!
In my experience most marking is caused by anxiety, not dominance but there are obviously exceptions. I wasn’t yelling at you as much as I was having a hard time believing you would rather he not look weird than keep your house piss free. As someone who does dog boarding for a living, I can’t fathom that. My house would have been condemned years ago if I felt the same.
People have given you excellent suggestions and advice - and yes, his behavior has been “allowed” one way or another for 8 years.
People have tried to help - and you blow them off. No one has yelled at you.
A belly band would be the first step in solving this - but you are more concerned about how it looks? I would start with that. Then limit his area, act as if he was never housebroken and you are starting over… so out he goes at specific times during the day. Establish a schedule. NO unsupervised access to any spaces inside where he might mark…
Not a single person yelled at you. They gave you advice for attempting to fix the issue as that is what you asked for. And yes, you did ‘allow’ it. Whether or not you didn’t want it to happen, you did ‘allow’ it by not taking the steps needed to fix the issue for the past 8 years. Obviously what you are doing isn’t working, so you need to do something else to stop ‘allowing’ it to happen. It will be very hard to fix, especially now at 8 years old.
If you had started this thread and said ‘I only want people to commiserate with me’ then maybe you could be unhappy with people giving advice, but you didn’t. You asked for advice.
Im sorrY … I guess I should have explained further … The belly band thing yes looked bad … But it would also kind of wriggle its way down to his butt and not do a damn thing!! But I will say this smoofox … Your tone is what I mean … Kinda of a cross between rude and yelling ., I haven’t blown anyone off …!!!
