Jack russell help!

[Becc]

I moved in with my boyfriend about 8 months ago, and he has a three year old male, unneutered, Jack Russell. Whilst we are both at of the house most of day Monday - Friday's, he does have a dog flap from the kitchen (where he stays) into the garden. Over the past 3 weeks roughly we have come home to find wee patches on the kitchen floor 4 out of 5 days, normally the puddle is on a corner of the wall, on the floor and the skirting board. It has also occasionally been in the middle of the floor, and the past couple of times on the corner of the washing machine. The amount of wee itself is normally a decent amount, which has made me rule out the idea of marking ( :unsure: ?), and we did move his feed bowl to the corner where the majority of it occurs for about 10 days, but now it has moved back, he's started weeing there again. Obviously this is very frustrating for us to constantly come home to it, is there any reasons for it to have suddenly started and how do we stop it?

Many thanks

 

[gypsysmum]

Is there a bitch in season nearby?

He will overmark if you do not get rid of all traces of smell. Do this by using a 10% solution of biological detergent. Wash, rinse and dry the area and then go over it with a spirit like white vinegar or surgical spirit.

Neutering might help if it has not become a habit.

This is all assuming he is scent marking which seems the most likely explanation in an entire, housetrained dog.

 

[Shewbert]

Hi Becc

He has been doing it for 3 weeks now, so he has got to the stage that it is now almost certain to be a habit,

Many many things can be causing it, strange that he has been fully clean in the past then the behavior suddenly begins.

Has their been strange dogs in the area, he might be afraid to go in the garden, has another dog marked your garden causing your dog to mark around the back door etc to stop this dog entering his territory, so many things,

have you recently bought new plants in your garden, he may not like them.

The only thing you can really do is retrain him to go outside again, firstly disinfecting the whole kitchen.

He likes going in one corner more than other places, then put down some sort of toilet tray their, then very slowly, day by day move it until it is outside,,, lots of praise for using the toilet tray.

Difficult one unless you can find out the initial cause for his changes.

Training seems to be better in this case than neutering, (I would personally only use neutering as a very last resort, but this is my point of view) I am afraid that many vets advise neutering, they are not trainers, they prefer neutering as it is more profitable to do this than sending you to a behaviorist.

I do hope things get better soon.

Shewy