Gizmo tried to lift his leg to pee on pad and missed :-(
 

So I'm wondering if anyone has had a male pup, who all of a sudden decided to try to lift their leg from the wood floors and aim for the pad, only to miss ? He's always been really good inside and squats to pee on his pad. When he goes on walks he lifts his leg to pee. He's never gotten the 2 confused until today. I watched as he walked across the hard wood floor over to the pad, but instead of going onto the pad he got right next to it and lifted his leg, only to miss and leave a puddle on the floor :-( I just got him fixed 2 weeks ago and wonder if his hormones are still off ad e got a bit confused? He has never lifted his leg in the house. Has anyone else had this happen, and if so how did you correct it?

He has since went back and peed on his pad, after I told him only potty on the pad. He does understand the command of go potty on the pad, and then I reward him after he goes. Obviously though he got no reward of a treat with the puddle on the floor lol, all he got was a reprimand. Since he's used it since properly, and gotten rewarded, I am hoping it was a one time thing :-(

Aww poor little guy. I have a girl. Maybe someone can give you some tips.

Gizmo gets a 'A' for effort!:D Turbo never lifted his leg, but learned from Momo. Turbo used to lift his leg so high & press himself against the wall (maybe for balance:confused:) & pee...a lot! The wall, the baseboard, the floor, under the pee pad got all wet.:rolleyes:

A member here (carlybaby) had posted a pic of a glass jar in the middle of the pee pad. Genius! Here's our set up, the boys use the water bottle was a marker. I cut the pee pad & wrap it around, prop it against the wall, it holds up the pee pad too. I have 3-4 bottles propped up in both baths & the boys use it every time, no accidents, but they're older 5-6 years old. We use washables & I line the paper pee pad underneath for xtra protection. I give them bottled water, so I recycle it, change it every week.
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Another thing, their designated pee area are in the bathrooms. I had to make the pee area bigger. If I only put down 1 pad, more potty mistakes happened, like peeing on the edge.

Huey seemed to always want to pee on the same spot on the bathroom door jamb, so this is what I came up with. He hits it evey time! I have a piece of 2 sided tape on the jamb thst I stick the upper part of the pad to.

Well it must have been a one time thing so far at least haha, he's went pee about 5 or 6 times on the pad since, and gotten his little treat pieces :-)

Yea if I put down a water bottle he would just chew it flat hehehe, he's already figured out how to get them out of the water bottle toys, and then gnaws on them till they are completely flat lol.

I would have never thought of those suggestions--what great ideas.
My boy lifts his leg (inappropriately at times)...and--being a tiny bit bow-legged--he occasionally topples over. lol We (probably wrongly) give credit in the house for effort. It's just too hard to be stern with a yorkie face looking back at you. And I have no idea how to help my boy with his aim, but I'm going to try the vertical target ideas!

I have been thinking about this thread. At first I thought the "target" idea was great but the more I thought about it I am wondering if giving the dog a target is teaching him to lift his leg in the house?

You can use a glass jar, like a pickel jar filled w/water or stones or whatever to weigh it down.

Turbo does not lift his leg all the time, so no I don't think having a marker will encourage leg lifting. I have seen him stand next to his bottle & pee there w/out lifting his leg.:D

It's so much simpler with girls - they always squat. Lol

I don't know about that. I' ve had quite a few female fosters, mainly puppy mill dogs, who lift their leg. I assumed it was their way of attempting to keep their crate clean.I do like the idea of a bottle for my males, and maybe a female or two. I do think I 'll need to go higher on the wall for my maltese who is a bit larger than standard at 14 lbs. Tall and thin not chunky.

As I wrote about girls always squatting I recalled my female Gina always lifted her leg on walks. This was amazing to me. She was not a dominate girl at all so the leg lift was surprising. But being a female she could not squirt high on anything like boys can.

when I had a paper trained male I used a large flat dog litter box that he had to get in to go, so that helped with misses on the floor. The only thing that drove me nuts is the dribble afterwards, I had to put a plastic mat on the floor in front of the box, I was always wiping it up because of the yellow stains. Does the dribble after the fact drive you nuts?

It does...but since I made the pee area bigger, the boys go inside & pee in the far right by the bath tub where the bottles are. So when they walk out, their dribbles get on the pee pad. Sometimes there will be dribbles outside the baths which is from the girls! I just wipe it. I also don't keep pee strings on them anymore, too much pee stays on there. I used to find tiny pee stains on my white sheets, no more. Another thing that drives me bonkers is when some furry body pees on the places I'll be stepping on, like right by the sink. Hate that feeling, stepping on pee:confuse8:...but not worse than stepping on s#*! loll!

LOL! That picture made me dye laughing. hahaha!!! too funny!! :D:D:D

It's a good idea, but the picture made me laugh.

My Riley just had to learn how to get both ends on the pad. At first, he would put his nose on the pad and squat but his back end would be on the floor. I just lifted his back end from the sides and moved it on to the pad. It didn't take many times for him to learn. Now that he is older and lifts his leg, he adjusts himself till his aim is right before he goes. Isn't it sweet how hard they try to please us?

The good news is once I reprimanded him that one time and he didn't get a treat for it, he hasn't lifted his leg in the house since :-) he's been so easy to potty train since I rescued him at nine weeks old. I think he's only had 3 accidents in the house :-) I call that great potty training, he's such a smart little guy and I just love him to death. Right now were trying to wrk on the arguing between him and his cat, or maybes he's the cats dog since the cat is 10 :-) they have such a sibling rivalry it's crazy. What is funny is my cat Lucy I bottle fed from 2 days old as she was one of my feral rescues, and she walks on a leash, goes to the park, rides in the car and a bunch of stuff normal cats don't do. I have rescued so many cats and have 3 right now, but Lucy has never bonded with any of the other cats. Who would have thought after 10 years, all my kitty Lucy needed was a puppy to bond with for a best friend :-) now if I could only stop their arguing lol. It's really funny, they play chase all over, then gizmo gets mad because she won't play with his toys with him, so he starts barking at her, and she growls and hisses back, and this can go on forever lol. They are very cute together though, Lucy was so upset after Gizmo got fixed, that she slept right next to his pen until he felt better because she was so worried about her puppy :-) its a cute kitty and puppy relationship, but would be way cuter if they stopped arguing lol.

I'm just glad the leg lifting thing was a one time deal for Gizmo. I honestly think he thought o himself, hey I wonder if I can stand on the floor, lift my leg and aim for the pad to see if I can hit it, and once it didn't work, he went back to the right way lol.

I used a gallon water filled bleach bottle for Peek, who at 16 YO had just learned to use the PeePads. The bottle really helped him with his balance, although I did witness a few 'Air-pee' events (think air guitar, lol). He rarely squatted. One time he was aiming on one of my antique sewing machine bases, and I looked away just as he readjusted his aim to my leg! I had stood very still bc I didn't want to do Peepee interuptus, haha, but his aim was a tad short and only hit my shoe. He had never done that, I think he may have been going partially blind at the time, or I was standing too still and he didn't realize it was my leg.

I love the idea of having 'PeePad Wallpaper'. LMBO!:D