Hi,was wondering how people with both male and female dogs try and distract the scent of a season.I am having no trouble seperating the dogs at all.And i clean up with disinfectent where ever the bitch has been peeing and even where she has been lying on the carpets.But i like to alternate the dogs so they all spend time indoors with me and it has been ok up till now, but today the boys have just marked everything in sight from  the hoover to the curtains.I really don't want to keep the boys or the girl locked up in the run allday has anyone got any ideas?Is it just the boys are sensing she is ready and it might only be for a few days as i don't mind keeping the boys out in the run for a few days but not the rest of the season.

The  boys will smell it even through your disinfectant.-boys will be boys   :)

We have 6 dogs:  2 dogs & 4 bitches.     We try and alternate dogs for a couple of weeks at a time - 2 in the house, 4 in the runs/kennels.    When it's season time (and fortunately, we have 2 girls in season together, then a break of 4-6 weeks, then the other 2 in together).   When the girls are in season, we keep the boys inside, take them out the FRONT door and front fate, and walk them UP the lane.   The girls get taken out the BACK gate, and walked DOWN the lane.   This does seem to keep some of the pressures off the boys, to scent everything - they still serenade them, in the way that only Aussies can, yodelling and who-hooing for as long as they can get away with ;) - and they LOVE to visit the kennels & runs when out in the garden - think they have the equivalent of flowers/bottles of champers/choccies etc - and are thinking of tunnelling in ;)

Working so far (she says, crossing fingers and everything else )

Margot

Well the serenading has just started,lol,I enjoy the husky howls but not sure if the rest of the street will.Has any one tried that bitch spray on the carpets?Wondered if this might help them as the wee girl usually only lies in her favorite spot by the fire and by god they are going mental at this spot.poor lads.

It sound completely normal to me.  Exactly what friends who try to keep dogs and in season bitches together in 'normal houses' tell me, which is why I don't!  :)  Good Luck!

We will have fun when my puppy comes in season as the 2 boys have decided they don't like each other and can't live together. So I will either have 3 dogs in 3 different rooms, or more likely be board the bitch out with one of my long-suffering friends!

We manage really quite well when the girls are in season.  Thomas doesnt howl he just sits there looking sad eyed and pathetic. He stays in one room and the girls in the other.  When he gets really bad when they are on heat I now give him the scullcap and valarium tablets from Dorwest and serene um tablets.  They dont stop anything but just take the edge of things.  My friend who is a vet advised me to use them. I am extremely lucky though because he doesnt get noisy.  He just becomes mummy favourite little boy and keeps looking at me to see if I will let him near them even though he knows the answer.  He is extremely well behaved considering he has been used at stud.