Why is my house trained dog peeing on the floor?
09 Mar 2010
He is a rot mix. He is about 1 1/2 years old. He has been house trained for quite a while. About 2 months ago, he decided he was going to start peeing and pooping on the basement floor. We started locking him out of the basement and the behavior seemed to stop. About a week later, he started peeing upstairs in the bathroom. He will come in the house and 15 minutes to a half hour later, he pees on the bathroom doorway or the toilet. The problem behavior seemed to go away on its own. My boyfriend scrubbed the bathroom and the toilet with baking soda and then with murphy’s oil soap to get rid of the smell. There hasn’t been a problem for about 2 1/2 weeks. Today I heard him peeing upstairs. I closed my laptop and stood up to go up and yell at him but before I could even get part way up the stairs, before I yelled, he came running down and hid under the table. He knows what he did was wrong. Short of getting rid of him, I don’t know how to make him behave. Why is he doing this?
there haven’t been any changes in the house. no new pets or visiting pets. no roommate changes recently. so i don’t see stress as a factor. he usually doesn’t do it when we are not home. the dogs were alone for about 18 hours last weekend because our friend forgot to let them out - but there were no messes.
Male dogs mark with urine…and that has nothing to do with him being housebroken or not. At 1 1/2 the dog is still learning, and will make mistakes. Some dogs learn quicker than others, at various ages.
If other dogs are coming into your home, or the scent of other dogs that can drive him to mark.
Make certain that you are available to him if he needs to go to the bathroom in the correct place, and that you are paying attention to the signs that he is letting you know he has to go. Dogs are like humans, they can only hold it for so long.
Also check with your vet that he isn’t having any urinary problems.
If he’s hiding under the table, he’s becoming too submissive. Do not yell at him to correct him, take him and lead him to the area he peed, make him smell it, then lead him to the correct place and rienforce the command word you use. Then praise him and give him a treat reward when he goes in the right place.
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2010 Mar 09
dont get rid of him… there is a answer and its probably something bothering him but i really dont know call a vet?
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2010 Mar 09
He should be checked by the vet for urinary tract infection.
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2010 Mar 09
well he could be doing this for attention but when u see or hear him peeing go to wear he his put his nose in it and say NO! than pop him on the butt and put him outside this is a very bad habbit for ur dog to pick up on
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2010 Mar 09
The best place to start is to rule out any medical issues, such as a bladder infection.
Also, some dogs may do this if there is emotional stress, or if you are really stressed. Have there been any big changes? Or something else that could be stressing him out?
If you can’t figure out a cause, go back to housetraining. Use a crate to keep him confined when you cannot be watching him and treat him like he’s not trained at all and start over.
In extreme cases, mild medication can be used to help the stress level of the dog if nothing else is working.
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2010 Mar 09
Do not rub his nose in it. When he does it inside, clean it up with vinegar. It will eliminate the smell and stop him wanting to do it in the same place again. Do not make a fuss when he does it in the house, instead really praise him and reward him when he does it outside. Maybe some event has made him regress and not want to go out to do it (bad weather, a fight with another dog?) in which case you will need to treat him like a puppy again.
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2010 Mar 09
he may be sad about somthing if anyone he is used to being around has left that could be the reason also if he is lonley or if you have no other dogs
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2010 Mar 09
Is there something wrong with his environment outdoors? Has he been checked by the vet for anything like a bladder infection or other possible cause why he can’t hold his urine? If these are fine, he may need a refresher course of housetraining. A crate works well for this as does ‘leashing"…tieing the dog to you by his leash so he is with you 24/7. He may think the bathroom’s an okay place as it smells of ammonia to him. Try using white vinegar for cleaning his marked areas, when dry, spray with lavendar oil or a similar herbal oil. Spray his bedding with the same scent so he associates the smell with bed and not potty.
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2010 Mar 10
Male dogs mark with urine…and that has nothing to do with him being housebroken or not. At 1 1/2 the dog is still learning, and will make mistakes. Some dogs learn quicker than others, at various ages.
If other dogs are coming into your home, or the scent of other dogs that can drive him to mark.
Make certain that you are available to him if he needs to go to the bathroom in the correct place, and that you are paying attention to the signs that he is letting you know he has to go. Dogs are like humans, they can only hold it for so long.
Also check with your vet that he isn’t having any urinary problems.
If he’s hiding under the table, he’s becoming too submissive. Do not yell at him to correct him, take him and lead him to the area he peed, make him smell it, then lead him to the correct place and rienforce the command word you use. Then praise him and give him a treat reward when he goes in the right place.
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