I just ordered male belly bands for dogs that mark inside. anyone use these ? I'm hoping it will solve the problem as I've accepted a sit with a marker for 5 days.
Yes, for one particular dog who has been marking since I first started sitting for him about five years ago. Finally, the owner admitted that her dog did this at other people's homes. Now she has disposable belly bands shipped to me directly from amazon whenever he comes to stay.
How does it work for you? is it hard for the dog to remove it, and do they urinate in it, even when you know the dog has peed recently? I accepted a new dog for next week that marked straight away, so I'm hoping for a pee clean up free week :)
The dog has never removed it. They are like disposable baby diapers, with adhesive tape closures. Yes, the dog will urinate in it but marking is usually small amounts. I change them as necessary. Sometimes after a few days, it will taper off but when I've let him go without, he will mark again.
FYI, I only accept small (< 20lb) dogs. Also, I didn't want the hassle of using a pantyliner or sanitary pad and having to wash the band itself, Some sitters keep belly bands on hand in various sizes. I've only used them on this one dog who persists in marking.
I've mostly seen the fabric reusable ones for small dogs. Usually if the dog pees a little and feels that wet & warm sensation next to his body, he'll stop, so just a little urine like Karen said. However, I cared for one dog that peed & marked ALL the time in his own home as well as other homes. He'd saturate the wrap and every few hours it would have to be changed, hand washed, and rotated with a dry one.
These are the ones he wears: https://www.amazon.com/Wiki-Wags-Brand-Small-Disposable/dp/B005HIKG5Y
I’d like to have an answer for our situation.
I often see answers of “make sure to let the dogs out enough, for a long enough duration“, but we usually let the dogs out in the backyard, or take them for a walk, every couple of hours, and at least 20 minutes each. PLENTY of time for them to empty their bladders.
Yet males AND females, always come back in the house and pee. Several spots, throughout the day. It’s causing lots of tension in the house and stress.
I understand that the OCCASIONAL dog will pee as it’s a new place. Usually once. Maybe twice.
But dogs we have watched several times before, will pee all the time, everywhere.
We are very caring and loving. We do not yell at them. We don’t do anything that scares them.
We clean old pee spots up with enzyme remover and they still smell the old spots, as well as create new spots.
We don’t want to stop pet-sitting. As we need the income and we love animals. But this makes absolutely no sense to us that we let them out plenty, and they are familiar with our house, especially if they are repeat clients, yet they still Pee everywhere. Sometimes, the more we watch them, the more it seems they pee.
I see lots of people are saying to get doggie diapers, but wouldn’t this only work for males? Males AND females are peeing all over our house. As well as we often take photos and videos of the dogs we are watching, so the owners know that they are doing fine, and we don’t want them to see diapers on them and get upset with us. But it would be a pain in the butt to take them off every time we were going to take a photo or video, and then put them back on.