hi my puppy jack has just started cocking hhis leg...................IN THE HOUSE!!!!! is it normal?how can we stop it?
thanks in advance
K D (Karens Daughter)

Should say He has just hit 6 months!

ah! the testosterone is surging through those little loins then! i'm going through this right now and while nips hasn't cocked in my house i'm on permanent "cock watch" (could i have worded that better, perhaps?) elsewhere. on two occasions i've caught his leg at half mast, the latest being on saturday when he decided that my friend's nice bright yellow work bag full of student assignments needed marking.

he's 100& housetrained and has been for some months (he's 9 months old now) but he doesn't seem to make the connection between "marking" and widdling indoors. the latter being something he'd never do.

i don't think there's an instant solution - although if anyone has one please tell me! - and i'm just making sure i keep an eye open for that tell-tale leg being raised and then immediately say "oi, not in here!!" which stops him in his tracks and seems to remind him of his surroundings. he's at his most dangerous in the first 10 minutes or so of being in another house, by the way!

Thank you for that roz, that will account for another earlier misdemeanour in my bedroom! I allowed him to come up with me as a 'one off'....It wont be repeated in the forseeable then.
Today here in Guernsey it is 'Liberation day' So we are all on our way out to celebrate! It's good to have a bank holiday in the middle of nowhere, although it is always May 9th of course.
Again many thanks
roz to the rescue (again)
Karen

Hi! I don't want to hijack your thread but I also have a similar problem and was about to start a new topic.
We have 6 English Setters, ranging in age from 10 down to 6 months. Iain is now 2 years old and just last week he managed to sneek upstairs (they are not allowed up the stairs) and he we-ed up the bed. I had a "doggy" friend who visited this past weekend, who must have smelt doggy and needed dominating, so he peed up her leg which was very embarassing!! Then this morning, got up, let dogs outside to do their ablutions, while I was in the bathroom Iain peed on the kitchen floor!! I realise he may be wanting to push him dominance over the 6 month old but how can I stop this behaviour apart from shouting no when I catch him doing it, then shoving him outside??? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I had a male who once peed up the milkmans leg when he came for his money I felt so embarrassed I immediately tried to clean his shoe ...so there's me on my knees apologising profusely while he is saying it doesnt matter and trying to get away meanwhile my boy has made a fast exit back into the house so all the neighbours would see was me on me knees to the milkman ...LOL :)

On a serious note my boys never as far back as I can remember cocked thier leg in the house they were both entire males , I did put them out frequently as I find the first thing a male will do is pee when let outside much faster than  a  female I would imagine he will grow out of it.
Is your oldest male of the six the two year old?

No. The oldest male is 10 but he is slowing down much more now. Iains Mum is top of the pack and she only has to give him the "look" and he will behave himself! Iain knows not to pester the older boy too much otherwise he will get grumbled at and he doesn't challenge him in any other way. We have a happy, harmonious lot, even when one of the girls is in season so I should think ourselves lucky really that we only have this small but unpleasant urinating problem. I bet your milkman was a tad cautious after he had his watering!!! HEHE!