staffy urinating

Left Back on the Bench

Looking for some help and/or advice. We've had our staffy for 6 years. He's house trained but we had a baby a year ago.

Since my partner got pregnant he's started going to the toilet everywhere. On the couches, legs of tables, buggies, trikes and even more recently has started going on our bed.

We give him treats and a Kong when we leave for work but we don't think it's separation anxiety because on a couple of occasions he's gone in the house when we've had patio doors open. A dog groomer/kennel owner said to get him neutered. He's marking his territory.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated as my partner wants to rehome him now as it's becoming a serious hygiene issue.

Thanks

cocker5

Have you had him checked by the vet to rule out medical issues? This should always be your first protocol

Then I’d probably neuter him and start retraining him again- start from the beginning

Have u considered crate training this may help?

What are u cleaning the places he pees with? This could also be encouraging this behavior

cocker5

Assuming this is going on 18 months / 2 years now what have u tired to stop him?

It’s now a learned behavior

If your dog was house trained before there is no reason he can’t be again .. rehoming should be your very last option and not for such reasons IMO

Left Back on the Bench

Clean it with bleach and zoflora stuff. We're at work so don't like the idea of crate training. I don't want to re home him but the missus is at the end of her tether.

I'll be the 1st to admit he's been Molly coddled. I'm willing to go back to trying these methods but I'll need to convince my other half.

Do you think neutering him would help along with confining him to a room while we're gone?

tk123

Maybe try an adaptil plugin in case it's stress. Rehoming is a tad extreme - would you try a belly band? That might actually be a good test - if he's weeing but not actually getting to mark anything I wonder if he'd give up?

Bunnyslippers

Neutering will help to some extent, confining to a room, like the kitchen would be your best bet as well, just for ease of cleaning really. Or if as a last resort make a run with a heated kennel outside for him while you’re out? As for cleaning with bleach that is ammonia basically and smells like pee to a dog, so you’re replacing his pee with another pee which won’t help his issues as he’ll think someone else is marking over his marks! You need a special pee cleaner and really scrub the hell out of anything he’s marked, then keeping him away from those items until he is fully house trained again and until the smell has totally degraded.

So I wouldn’t rehome yet - you’ll be very hard pushed to find a staffy a home anyway especially as rescues are over flowing and having a dog that is essentially not housetrained is not going to do him any favours at all. Tons of staffys are pts all th estimated as they’re just not wanted.
I’d start from scratch with him after he’s been neutered, basically treat him like a puppy and don’t give him the chance to wander anywhere in the house except the kitchen for the next year until you are sure he’s got the whole housetraining thing again, it will take effort but it will be worth it as staffys are great with kids!��

aonb

agree that cleaning pee with any amonia based product is not a good idea - for the reasons mentioned previously.
Also agree that rehoming a staffie is a really bad option - shelters are full of staffies, and rehoming them is so difficult because of their (totally unjustified) bad rep.
Your partner is probably tired of cleaning up messes after a days work, and a baby to mind. *YOU* need to take on that task 100% (especially if shes at the end of her tether) YOU need to take on the task of sorting the situation - your dog has been mollycoddled, and needs to be retrained, theres a lot of work ahead but staffies are clever, biddable dogs, he'll soon get the message. Keep him confined to the kitchen when you're at work, then in/out/in/out to get him to pee outside. Treats and make a fuss of him, when he pee's outside. If he cocks his leg indoors a sharp NO! and bring him outside, treats when he pees outside again.

You need to housetrain him again from scratch - since the pregnancy and the baby, he's probably felt insecure and that the dynamic of your relationship was changing, the pee could have started as an insecurity thing, now its a habit.

Left Back on the Bench

Thanks for all the advice. I do do the cleaning too, i also mind the baby too😉😉😉 gonna get him neutered and start the training again

Victor

When my sister in law had a baby one of the dogs was very jealous and started acting out like this. Is the dog getting enough human time?

cocker5

Left Back on the Bench wrote: »

Thanks for all the advice. I do do the cleaning too, i also mind the baby too😉😉😉 gonna get him neutered and start the training again

You’ll need to confine him too when your out. Go back to basics , bring him outside every 3 hours and encourage him to go. When he goes praise him

If he goes inside say a stern no (only one word’ pick him up and pt him straight outside over and over again he will soon learn the rules

I would probably try crate training alsothis can help quicken the process

How much daily excercise is he getting?