Tips to stop MALE dogs from urinating all over your house

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.

We recently had a neutered male dog as a guest. HIs owner brought a belly band with him and we used it the first day. We didn't put it on after that and had no problems even when he was left alone. Dogs mark as you've said to deposit their scent. While some trainers believe that one should not allow dogs to mark on walks, there is no evidence that this decreases urine marking in the house. As a certified behaviorist, we take just the opposite approach - allow the dogs to mark as much as they want on walks, they get to deposit their scent all around, with the house sort of in the center of the 'territory' and therefore decreases the motivation to want to mark inside.
We've used a product called Anti Icky Poo for years to remove the odor, find it much superior to Nature's Miracle.
Would not hesitate to use a belly band though as a precaution as well, and test the dog for short periods without it.

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We use belly bands as well. They are low cost, comfortable for the dogs and a carpet/furniture saver! We only keep neutered and spayed dogs but almost every male wants to hike, even though my home is clean. Belly bands are so worth it!

Don't forget: any supplies you purchase are tax deductible.

I use belly bands

I second the remark on using belly bands, I've found they are worth their weight in gold. Amazon sells them at a reasonable price, and you can also buy a bulk box of overnight slim pantyliners to use in them for cheap with free shipping usually.

I'm not sure why people keep saying it is normal for male dogs to mark. This is not normal behavior unless they are not neutered or they were neutered later on in life. I digress, yes it is common for a male dog to mark the first time they enter your home, but it is not normal for that behavior to continue throughout the stay. I have plenty of experience in this area and I learned the hard way so I invested in belly bands of different sizes. Fortunately I haven't had the need to use them but I have them just in case because I had a terrible experience with a dog who marked the whole 5 days he was here. Also, if you have a marker don't give him access to the whole house, you'll have to confine him to an area where it's easy to clean up and it looks like that is what you are doing. As far as cleaning supplies, this one is hard because these dogs have that keen smell where even if you cleaned a spot a thousand times, they still pick up on the smell. One cleaner I have really liked so far is Pet Peeve Household Pet Stain and Stink Remover. I bought it on Amazon after reading all the good reviews it had. Good luck and let us know if you found a solution :)

You may also want to invest in belly bands in a few sizes (or make your own), and as policy put them on male dogs when they are dropped off for the first few hours, or day, or however long you need to prevent marking. Once a dog becomes more settled and have been shown the appropriate place to potty, they'll also 'remember' their house training a bit better, so most dogs likely won't need the bands for too long, even if there are known problem spots in the house.

As for the odor until you're able to redo your flooring, there are some good air filters/purifiers/deodorizers on the market. I have one of these: http://www.amazon.com/CritterZone-Pet...11?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1431586029&sr=1-1 and I LOVE it. It really does help. Depending on the size of the area, a couple of those can make a huge difference.