I have a 3 year old male (neutered) who has been with us now for about 8 months. He cocks his leg up EVERYTHING! (Skirting boards, doors, door frames, curtains, washing on the line, agility equipment in the garden, fence posts, plant pots, the gate...the list is endless) Most of the time only a little dribble of pee comes out so its not like he needs the loo. I have cleaned everywhere with strong smelling disinfectant but it doesn't deter him at all and i'm thinking its more a habit than anything else.

Can anyone help, i'm mostly concerned with him doing it indoors but any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

sorry cant help but isnt that what boy dogs do? i know some in the park that pee on my bitches and on my leg!

I should hope not Tina as couldn't imagine many owners putting up with that as normal behaviour !!

I posted about this very problem and these are the responses I received.

http://www.champdogsforum.co.uk/cgi-bin/board/topic_show.pl?pid=1225133;hl=#pid1225133

Another thing I am looking at as well is to see if trying chemical castration will help solve the problem

glad i have girls!

I kept finding little puddles on the bottom of my CD/DVD cabinet -going up onto the door so clearly marking. It was clearly from a little dog, but which one? The day I caught the culprit in the act I found it was a BITCH, not a dog -so bitches aren't faultless.

true, one of mine cocks her leg all the time in the park and garden but luckily not indoors

No-one has told you that you are not helping by cleaning with disinfectant. :-( Clean the area with a biological washing powder, not anything that attracts the dog to the area. Disinfectant smells nice to dogs and they will just keep peeing there.

If you see him doing it tell him no and take him straight out. If it means you have to keep him restricted for a while then so be it. When one of my boys litter brothers comes for a visit he has to be caged (the visitor, not my boy ;-) ) as he will pee all over the place. I know of someone who had a jiffy lemon filled with water, not lemon juice :-p and would squirt the dog if caught out. He never knew where the water was coming from but soon got the message that peeing indoors was wrong. The jiffy lemon fits in the palm of your hand so he didn't associate you with the squirting :-D

>  but isnt that what boy dogs do

No - my boy has never tiddled indoors :) (Apart from when he tried to drink the contents of the hose once and was caught very short ..... :D :D )