House Broken Now Peeing In House
 

Help! I have a 4 year old amazing pup who has been house broken since he was 12 weeks old. We have a tub we don't use and his potty pads are there, so in between his twice daily walks, he uses those or in the middle of the night/early morning. Never an accident. Now I've found a puddle of pee on the living room floor, he's peed on my husband's boots, pillows on the couch, and a chair on our patio. He is so trained he never even pees on the patio even though its outside, but now this. I don't think it's a bladder infection because he can go whenever he wants on his potty pads. The only thing that has changed is that we ripped up our carpet and put down a new floor. That might explain the peeing on the floor, but not on the couch and pillows, oh and he peed on my husband's jacket on the bed. I don't know what to do because I never catch him in the act.

Anyone?

Has he been neutered, it could be marking and not peeing, although it wouldn't matter to me, pee, or marking on pillows, clothing etc, is still a no no and must be corrected. You may want to block him out of rooms when you can't supervise him, and confine him to one area with pads and start the potty retraining again.

Here are some thoughts for your consideration. When things change in our dogs' behavior, they are often signaling they don't feel well, are hurting, maybe it's a toothache or whatever or he's upset/troubled by something else that's frustrating or upsetting him. I'd have a vet check him first thing.

Try Googling 'why housebroken dogs lose their housebreaking' or some similar phrase. There can be several different things going on.

Dogs have few ways to express their feelings and any change in behavior is a powerful communication. Dogs often urinate/defecate for many reasons to express that they are dealing with all sorts of issues they find troubling or trying to deal with besides eliminating waste. Often dogs pee/potty on our belongings or in our beds, chairs, etc., because they have great concentrations of our scent on them and where they draw more comfort. No doubt something is troubling your little guy and having all his old, well-known scents associated with the former flooring in his territory summarily removed and missing might be it or it could be something else such as he's fearful of the new flooring, objects to its odors or a new dog in the neighborhood whose scent he's picking up on or maybe a neighbor is having loud house repairs, practicing drums or trumpet during the day when your're gone and he's fearful of what that noise is.

If the vet gives him a clean bill of health, dental and otherwise, I'd try confining him to a single area covered in pee pads when I couldn't be with him and when I am home, keeping him in the room I am in so you can monitor him and take him to his appointed potty place frequently, encouraging his greatly when he goes there.

You might try leaving a nanny cam or something out to try to find out when and what seems to be going on when he marks.

It could be a UTI so I really would have your vet rule that out even if you think its not. Is he neutered? Some of it sounds like he is marking stuff. The best thing to do when there is a potty problem like that if health issues are ruled out is start at the beginning with potty training.

I would definitely bring him in for a check up. I had my yorkie in for wetting problems and never had the best of luck with my vet. I finally found someone and she was diagnosed with incontinence which is easy to treat. Also she had calcium oxalate crystals. We never disaplined our baby because we knew she was trained and could not help her wetting problems. We were told by one vet she had a behavorial problem but anyways now she is doing great and no more problems. Susan