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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  Has he been neutered? How old is he? I have always thought of belly bands as a necessary tool to keep urine off everything in the house, rather than a training tool to break marking! If you have a sexually mature intact male, he will mark...it is instinctive. I had ONE friend swear she had trained her little male stud to not mark in the house....I have never seen that success story first hand! Everyone that I have ever known that had an intact male, used belly bands not as a training tool to break marking behavior, but rather as a means to keep urine off the furniture! I have never talked to anyone that expected a belly band to correct marking behavior. |
Oh, this is interesting. My parents and I both had male Yorkies who didn't mark and were not neutered. HOWEVER, as soon as my parents bought a shih-Tzu, their yorkie started to mark and was then neutered at 8 years old. I know that stopped him from overtly marking but I don't know about in secret..
Teddy isn't neutered and he has never been around a female. He's 15 months old and just recently started marking which I thought was as a result of stress due to my cat always bullying him.
Dunno..might have to rethink things now.