My two dogs three cats and myself have all just moved in with my Mum, Brother and Sister and Mum's dog and three cats. considering what could of happened things are going quite well but Milo has started marking everywhere if it is a nice day Mum will normally have the back door open so the cats and dogs can come and go as they like but I have just gone upstairs to find milo peed on the side of my Mums bed I have cleaned it all up so hopefully she won't notice but he did it in my brothers room twice and as I don't go in there I did not find it.  Things are hard enough at the moment I don't want any extra stress any ideas what I can do Milo is only 2 and besides this they have settled in perfectly I just don't want to make my Mum regret taking us all in HELP!

Presumably under stress of the move your dog is marking 'his' new territory.
Many years ago when we took our 2 yr old dog on holiday, he weed up the wall of the holiday cottage (inside), completely shocked we shouted at him midstream and hoiked him outside (he was still on the lead, we had only just arrived - luckily the key holder had just gone.) He didn't do it again, I guess because he got an immediate negative reaction.
If you clean up after him using a special animal cleaner that gets rid of the smell, and  restrict his movements so you can keep a close eye on him, then any sign of him cocking his leg indoors whisk him outside so he knows it is not appropriate to do it inside.

Sounds like hes marking his territory, i would keep all doors to bedrooms etc closed so he cant get in, i know may be difficult with other people coming and going. You will probably have to keep close eye on him and then you can spot when hes about to do it and quickly stop him and take him outside. Hope it all works out for you but fantastic news that they are all getting along! :) Hope this is of some help and if you have already tried the above im sure someone else will post soon. Oh also maybe use special cleaners to remove smells of dogs when they have accident to help stop them going back to same place. Let us know how its going,
Paula :)

great minds think alike rreeve :)

I didn't think we had a problem with our 1 year old golden peeing indoors!

However, on Friday night we picked up 2 rescue dogs who would stay overnight before travelling onto their foster home.  Jasper loves other dogs and these were no exception, playing around etc etc.  Suddenly Jasper walked over to the kitchen table, cocked his leg and did a wee

Is he going to do this every time another dog comes to stay or was it a one off???  Would he be different if they were female as opposed to male??

Having had boys now for the first time in my life...I have learnt a great deal!!! Dogs are GREAT at marking! We go to our friends house and Pepe wees everywhere...so much so I got them some belly bands! I find it's a behaviour that once they start they won't stop! Even now lil Pepe will go and try to wee on Storm the Newfie!(and she's a girlie) I don't really think it makes any difference whether they are male or female, a dog will always want to mark his territory and let eveyone know about it!  All the best, Dawn

Oh no
What happens when we have our next puppy?
Would it help if he was neutered?
Our last dog never did this :)

In fact on a walk a few days ago a little dog came running to their garden fence and was wagging it's tail and barking at Jasper, he play bowed and then cocked his leg and had a wee on him/her

Is it a dominance thing??  He isn't very dominant in other ways as they stole his treats and he just walked away

It's as much a 'boy thing' or an 'insecurity thing' as a 'dominance thing'. He needs to make sure his property stays his - just like writing your name on your school books!

It's as much a 'boy thing' or an 'insecurity thing' as a 'dominance thing'

I think maybe he is an insecure little boy then :rolleyes:  I don't think he is dominant at all so it must be insecurity, I'm wondering what I've done to make him feel insecure though

Having other dogs in his home would be enough to make him want to reassure himself and them that it's his home. :)

I can understand that, but what should I do for next time?  I don't want to upset him, in fact I thought he really enjoyed having them around   

I always think of it as being like when we have visitors ourselves. It's nice to have them, but it's still a relief when they've gone and things are back to normal! :D

would having him neutered help? I don't know but am interested in the views of our resident CD's as my boss is experiencing this very problem with his golden lab. at home does a wee and carries on, at work wees everywhere, little bit here little bit there, there are two labs at work as the other boss has one too.  I've got some info to go back to him with but he is on about neutering him and asked if it would help, I didn't know but said I would find out for him from here.

In my experience neutering does not help when dogs scent mark when other dogs visit or are visiting where the other dogs are, as this is largely done to bolster their confidence.

I used to have relatives and Friends dogs to stay but refused to take even neutered males as they invariably marked.  Teh worst offender was a neutered male terrie, and small dogs were more likely to do it than large ones.

Interestingly I have had 3 males visit to mate either mine or friends bitches and they didn't feel the need to mark (I own only bitches).

To be honest I can't work out whether it's a dominance or s e x thing!! Pepe is a little terror at bonking stuff, much more so than Tobey and Tobey doesn't pee like Pepe...BUT if we go visit Jean, their breeder, Tobey pees there and she has a mix of male and female! And with Stormy...Pepe goes into full love mode when she is in season...so much so I had to get a water pistol last year!!! I think maybe Pepe would be better if he was 'done', but am loathe to actually do it!!! Just have to put up and shut up! :P   It's a difficult one to answer as all doggies are different...maybe someone with more expereince as a stud dog, or entire male will come along and enlghten us!! :D

HAHAHA I meant someone with more experience WITH stud dogs, rather THAN a stud dog!!! But it's funny so I gonna leave it in!!!

Oh dear!  We'll see how he gets on tonight as a little girl is coming to stay until the weekend wish me luck :P :P

My neutered boys mark as much as the entire ones. It used to be a real pain in the old house as all the boys would mark on their beds. The puppy was cleaner indoors than them. Now we've moved they don't do it anymore. I reckon it was because they could constantly hear the dog next door (behind the fence just outside the kitchen window, and the beds were in the kitchen) and that's why they did it. Here they have no need, there are no other dogs nearby.

Not aimed at goldmali in particular but does anyone bother with house training their male dogs?

My males and females are fully house trained and occassionally friends have left their dogs here or I've brought home stays I've found and they do not mark in the house.

I'm really surprised by this but at least it explains why a friend of mine with bitches took ages to convince that my dogs wouldn't pee all over her house if she let them in. No wonder many hotels and holiday cottages refuse dogs.

This is me having read the replies on this thread >

I've little experience of dogs compared to many on here, but I was amazed to hear (when I first joined CD) about male dogs marking :D The two male dogs that I have had experience of never mark/marked in the house - one entire, one neutered :) :)

Daisy

It isn't surprising when naive non doggy dog owners admit theirs do it because they don't know any better but I'm amazed because most people on here do know about dogs.

I've learnt a lot today :-D

Even the best trained dog in the world is still liable to mark on occasions - because he's male. Even castrated males are still male enough because there are glands other than the testicles that produce testosterone - even bitches have a low level of testosterone. So never say never! ;) :D

I know you don't like being wrong ;-) so I expect they'll all start peeing all over tomorrow :-D

LOL! :D :D

Well I have definitely house trained my entire male and he did 'mark' just the once when the two neutered male rescue dogs stayed overnight.  However when the female stayed for a few days he hasn't 'marked'!  

I don't think it's to do with housetraining  Karen :D

It must be a coincidence then that all the dogs we've had over 30+ years don't mark in the house (or anyone elses house).

I would say that even our adult rescue dogs have "learnt" not to do it, but we must just be lucky :-D

Lucky, yep! Bitches are certainly very much quicker and easier to housetrain than dogs, in my experience. :) The dodgiest time with dogs is Christmas, when they're expected to not use the canine urinal which has been put in the corner of the living-room! :D

Totally housetrained cats will also spray and mark their territory when unsettled, so it's not just dogs. ;)

I've only house trained one bitch puppy, the others have all been dogs so I can't compare those. For adult rescue dogs (that weren't truely house trained or lived outside before) the bitches certainly do learn a bit faster. I love my boys though! :-)

Cats on the other hand :rolleyes: :-)  Not nice when the dogs find the hidden poo first (yum)

Baby/Dog guard gates from Argos? keep him downstairs and in view until it stops.