


This is a safe, non-confrontational way to establish your leadership and requires your dog to work for everything he wants from you.ĭon’t punish your pet after the fact. Practice “nothing in life is free” with your dog.If she even sniffs in an area she has previously marked, make a loud noise or squirt her with water. For cats: try to monitor your cat’s movements.For dogs: When he begins to urinate, interrupt him with a loud noise and take him outside, then praise him and give him a treat if he urinates outside.If your pet is marking in response to a new resident in your home, have the new resident make friends with your pet by feeding, grooming and playing with them.Make previously soiled areas inaccessible or unattractive.
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Restrict your pet’s access to doors and windows through which they can observe animals outside.Resolve conflicts between or among the animals in your home.Spaying or neutering your pet may stop urine-marking altogether. Spay or neuter your pet as soon as possible.Your pet has contact with other animals outside your home.Your pet has conflicts with other animals in your home.Your pet urinates on new objects in the environment.However, even spayed or neutered animals may mark in response to other intact animals in the home. Both intact males and females are more likely to urine-mark than are spayed or neutered animals.Leg lifting and spraying are dominant versions of urine marking. The amount of urine is small and is found primarily on vertical surfaces.To resolve the problem, you need to address the underlying reason for your pet’s need to mark his territory in this way. Urine marking is not a house-soiling problem, but is a territorial behavior. Some pets may go to the extreme of urinating to mark a particular area as their own. Marking territory is done when pets are wanting to“stake out a claim” to a particular object and to let others know about their claim.
