New house has carpets, dog now peeing on it!

[Boobyslims]

Moved house about two months ago and our new house is carpeted from the stairs towards. We’ve never had carpet so this is new to her.

She was a breeze to puppy train and we never had incidents of her peeing in the house before. She is 4, she still does all the usual signs to tell us she wants to go out.

It’s not every day she’s doing this, maybe five times so far, on the landing and once on the stairs return. And they are small (so I’m less likely to think she was bursting and couldn’t make it outside). She actually did it the other day AFTER she was let out for her morning business, about an half hour later. What do you think?? Really want to stop this habit…

You might need to get the carpet professionally cleaned, I think once they’ve done a wee somewhere they go back to that spot. Maybe block it off with a moveable gate if you can? I’m sure you can get sprays to deter them but I’ve never used one so not sure. Otherwise maybe just do lots of toilet breaks a bit like potty training again to try and break the habit. Maybe worth checking with the vet as well because it’s a new behaviour, to rule out anything medical.

Probably to mark her scent as carpets will retain smells from the other owners.
New carpets or professional clean.

Was she trained using puppy pads? My sibling has all hard floors and trained using the pads. When visiting anywhere with carpet, the softness confuses her so she pees, marking her territory. Sibling no longer takes her anywhere due to this issue.

Unless it's brand new carpet that you've had laid recently, I'd suspect it's more likely that the previous owners had a dog or cat that has marked in these places. As they aren't full wees it sounds more like scent marking her new territory than a need to toilet. As @BurntBroccoli suggests, start by having the carpets cleaned.

Mine was trained to puppy pads and she never ever wees indoors anywhere, so I doubt it is linked to that, particularly as the dog is adult.

Thank you all for the replies!

she was puppy trained using newspaper and pads, but she doesn’t wee at others peoples houses with carpet.

It’s not a new carpet, no. I think you are right and there was a cat here previously. I’ll give the patches another good scrub and hopefully she gives it up.

keeping her downstairs, oh I’m so loathe to go back to gates etc. she always found a way under/around them before, but if she persists I will stop her coming upstairs. The kids won’t be happy as she sleeps with them both, and checks on everyone til the house is asleep.

is there anything to spray that deters dogs? Maybe don’t exist, but thought I’d ask. I know for cats, pepper stops them.

Might be worth getting them professionally cleaned? Maybe the previous owner’s cat has marked in places? Maybe a professional cleaner can use a solution that particularly removes animal smells with an enzyme cleaner.

Isn't bicarb sprinkled on supposed to help with whiffy carpets? Leave it a while then vacuum it up...

Thanks again for the replies. I used Dr Beckmann carpet cleaner today (it’s incredible stuff) so will see how she behaves.

There is no smell (it was very very light patches, I thinking the poster who said it’s marking territory is right).

I’ll see how we get on!