Hello, things are going v.well with my goldie pup who's just about 7 months. He's been pretty-much house-trained for ages, and has never peed in a shop/restaurant, or other such inappropriate location.
He has rarely been upstairs, but the last few days I've started letting him come up sometimes as he's so much more reliable about not eating things off the floor. He has peed 2x in the dss' bedroom, once on the wooden floor, and once on the rug.
I'm not sure what to do about it - should I start by taking him upstairs regularly having had a pee first outside, so he gets used to upstairs being a place he doesn't pee, just like downstairs is?
Also, how do you generalise house-training to other peoples' houses? Is this the same? ie get him to pee first and then take him in, and take him out to pee regularly if he's not at home?
His peeing on command is not very good. He has many other commands off pat without hand signals, but if he doesn't need to go he won't try to squeeze one out because I tell him to. I'm not sure how to improve that either - it would obviously help with the rest. I use the command 'quickly' every time I see him pee in the garden or at the park, and praise or treat.