Urinating in the house

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My Ddog did this extensively at his last home and it was really the main reason he was homed with me because they couldn’t take it anymore it was so bad and nothing they could do helped. I’ve chosen to let him have the whole house because he cries constantly if he’s shut downstairs and 99% of the time he is not alone up there and we thought perhaps being barred from a room makes it more likely he will wee when he does get in.

Ddog is lovely. He is 5. He is trained. Healthy. Neutered. He knows the command to go to the toilet. I toilet him quite rigidly morning and night because I know it was a problem before. He will try to get out of going for a wee. He will ‘pretend’ because he doesn’t like it when the grass is wet or the weather is wet so you have to watch him do it

He’s lived with me for 5 months and so far there has been 2 small incidents in my DD’s room and one very small in mine. We attributed those to our own mistakes or other factors - once the cat had been sick on the floor and he weed on it (understandable) and the other 2 times it was raining and he hates rain and perhaps he hadn’t been outside for a while. He isn’t returning to the same spot either. I have a small carpet cleaner and put bicarbonate all over it too

Same as his previous owner downstairs is hard floor and upstairs is carpet. He NEVER urinates on hard flooring only carpet

So I’ve given him the benefit of the doubt.

This morning there is no explanation for him doing a huge wee in my room. It must have been a whole bladder worth! I’m home, I made him go out at 7am - but he didn’t want to go out (I had to carry him!) I saw him squat but I think he did not actually wee . Not raining. Back Door is open etc

Why. Why. Why. Why

I do not want to bar him from rooms. It will just be a repeat of his last home where he was stuck in one room. But now my room stinks (new carpet too) and I think I am doomed and he will just carry on. Why doesn’t he like going outside? If I go back to puppy pads that is just going to encourage him surely?

To make it worse as I was emptying the carpet cleaner I dropped the dirty water all over myself and more of the carpet. So it’s even more piss smelling than before!

To make things better, he is also very hard to put on a lead. He will play/run if there is any indication that is going to happen. So you have to hold him before you get the lead out. So putting him on a lead every 30 mins is another stress on him

Yes I think it will take a while to get him used to the noise let alone use them!

This is not going well in some ways. I’m no good at this

I can’t easily get him onto a lead without him running away and it taking absolutely ages to get it on him. It is so stressful and just winds him up

Even offering treats he will try to snatch them whilst he is running around being silly, just slightly out of your reach he also can’t be backed into a room he’s too clever. When he is calm he will sit for a treat and give paw but he’s very easily over excited

He is refusing to go out for a wee every 30 mins. See above for what happens with treats! He will physically just refuse too

Scared of the bells 😂

There has been no further wee in the house though because he isn’t allowed upstairs during the daytime when no one is watching him. He sleeps with me all night upstairs and doesn’t wee when I am asleep, he has only ever done it during waking hours so it isn’t a bladder control problem

But I am not going back down to him if I am upstairs and he is down, he just cries but eventually gives up

Can you keep him in a harness and house lead all the time? He'd then get used to having a lead on in unstressful situations and it'll be easier to gently take him outside if he already has his lead on.

I think it'd be best to keep him off carpets for the time being. Try to break the cycle of him thinking carpets are ok to pee on by not letting him walk on them. Use a gate at the bottom of the stairs. If you have to leave him alone downstairs on the hard floors then give him a nice treat before you leave him or a frozen cheese kong or something similar.

The other thing is have you had him checked by a vet to make sure he's not got an infection? I just wondered with you saying he cocks his leg but nothing comes out.

He’s seeing the vet tomorrow and I will ask them. He saw the vet nurse about his leg very quickly yesterday but will have a proper check tomorrow. He’s been checked lots of times in the past for wee issues by his previous owner

When he goes for a walk he does one big proper wee then he will ‘wee’ on lots of other things like male dogs do, just that often he has run out of wee by 20 mins into the walk so nothing is left to come out!

Yes I leave the harness on but if he suspects you might try to put a lead on him he will run away. I think this is just making him more anxious and over excited

Leave a lead on as well in the house. Cut the loop off the end so it's less likely to get caught on anything.

I am honestly not making it harder promise, but if you leave him on a training lead he gets really agitated about it. He’s very small and it bothers him so much. He won’t lay down or sit or relax. He will walk round slowly in circles trying to make it go away!

*trailing

I think you need to train him to get used to the lead - get him in a sit or a down and give him lots of treats and praise for staying calm while you clip the lead onto him.

The lead needs to be seen as a really positive thing.