My boy Toby is already marking and he's only 4.5 months. Has been since we brought him home at 4 months old. Same as above, he squats to pee and pees alot. three minutes later he's lifting his leg and dribbling on random corners and walls. Our female is only four months older than him, has never been in heat, and was spayed 4 days after Toby came into our home, so I'm pretty sure she wasn't the prompt for this behavior. Im getting him neutered of course and hoping this helps. If not I guess Ill try the belly band. But i figure he'll just rip it off himself the first time he gets a chance. He is quite rowdy.

Babies don't cry for "no reason", neither do puppies. You might not understand the reason, but there IS a reason. Loneliness, boredom, fear, bathroom, hunger, thirst, uncomfortable, something itches...could be anything.

Tilly is a tiny girl. She is 9 months old and just now really getting the pottie thing. She has 4 other dogs to show her the way. I keep her crate open with a pottie pad in it at all times. She will run in and piddle and I praise like crazy. She also pees and poops outside when everyone goes out ( 1 to 2 hours). None of my other dogs are pad trained although the other two girls came to me pad trained they both decided that outside with the rest of the pack was the place to pottie.
At 4 months a puppy can almost walk and pee at the same time. If a timer is set,it should be set for every hour. Kenzie is only a year I have seen a great difference in both of them around 9 or 10 months. Its like they just suddenly got it and like I said before they have other dogs here to teach them.

Haven't posted here in a while! Harley got neutered on Saturday, my god am I disappointed! They call at 4 pm and say everything went great and it's time to pick him up, so I do my big sigh of relief and get in the car. 30 SECONDS later they call and say harley had complications during surgery and now he's having episodes and pooping blood please get over here. So I drive over like a mad woman, I walk in and they say they've never seen anything like that after surgery so it must have been something "I let him eat" and gave him an antibiotic for his tummy. The nurse looked at me and said yeah it was really gross he pooped all over the crate and I had to clean it up so I don't know what you fed him but you should stop feeding him that... I felt embarrassed because I haven't had any problems with him having an upset stomache and I wanted to scream at them! Not only did they shun me... They handed him to me and what so you know, he's got the poop matted onto his but and all up in his paws and smells terrible! I said so you cleaned the crate but you couldn't clean him off? He just had surgery for god sake. Couldn't that cause an infection? They said well he's on antibiotics so.. He should be fine. I was so mad! Anyway I got home he did have an upset stomache for the rest of the night now it's 5 days later and haven't had any problems since so I'm convinced it's from the surgery/medicine/& being in their crate for the whole day that day. He's fine now. Oh and not to mention they told me they didn't have any e-cones that would fit him and neither did petsmart and I ended up having to buy one that is fit for a German shephard so it's huge and very awkward on him. Needless to say I'm sick of banfield! On the plus side he's feeling great, about 6 months old and hasn't had a potty accident inside in over a month, and he's healing up just fine from his surgery! So despite the problems we have with the vet I'm so happy my little boy is feeling good :-) thanks for everyone's support!