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Please be honest... Are there any of you who neutered your males after 6 months, and if so did they start marking anyway? By what age did they lift their legs? Anyone who's male didn't mark even though they weren't neutered early on? I've heard if you don't neuter them by 4 months, they will start marking after 6 months. Is that true? |
Rocco ws neutered at 6 months. He will be three next month and has always been a squater until a few weeks ago hew started lifting his leg and marking. I was so dissapointed. |
I only have experience with one male-maltese. I don't even remember how old he was, but I know it was well past 6 months. We did it because he marked so much and thought it would help....it didn't though. So I think we did do it too late :( |
Mine was neutered at 7 months (he's just over a year now) and he is still "squatting" to wee-wee. He does, once in a blue moon, lift his leg, but it is fairly rare. He does it at odd moments: Once I had gone into my bedroom and closed the door on him. When I came back out, he was standing at the door, lifting his leg. Caught in the act! Guess he wanted to break me of closing him out of my room! Once he did it on the door jam, just inches away from his piddle pad and looking right at me! |
We neutered Duncan at 8 months, I felt younger was too soon for Me..lol He was already lifting his leg, marking everywhere and tried to hump my girls, but after neutering him it took about a month or two to stop all those bad habits. His wanting to hump was what made me take him to get neutered..lol |
Chachi marks outsidee only and when we go to places like Petsmart. I got him neuteered at 7 months. I think if I would have got him neutered early he would have remained a squatter |
Jo was neutered when he was almost a year if I remember correctly...Riley was neutered at about 6 months and neither of them mark whether they're inside or out. Riley never learned to lift his leg to pee so he squats all the time...Jo had already been lifting his leg before he was neutered so he still does but he also squats sometimes. |
Bobbi is not neutered and will going on 8 months. He does not mark or lift his leg inside my house. He does outside in his favorite pole though. :p I do my best training him. He is a polite and respectful boy too ;) The vet and I are waiting for the last teeth to fall out before neutering and pulling teeth........ |
leg lifting I had a blue Chihuahua who was neutered at 6 months and he never learned to lift his leg. He was paper trained and completely trustworthy in the house. He grew up with my female Bichon and she pretty much raised him. My male Bichon learned to lift his leg because he played with another male while he was growing up. He wasn't neutered until he came to live with me at a year old and he still marks on occasion. It improved after he was neutered, but didn't stop. This is discussed a lot on the Bichon List and there are many, many different stories. Even dogs of the same breed grow up at different rates and learn at different rates and have different temperaments. Bichons are notorious for being hard to potty train and sometimes it takes years. My granddaughter's Yorkie, Samantha (Sammy), is doing great. She sleeps with my granddaughter and they are getting to be great friends. I still don't have any pictures, but will get some. This little dog has brought so much joy and fun to my son and his family, especially my granddaughter. Every family needs a little dog to love! Jeanette |
My vet wanted to wait until Chewy was around nine months, he wanted him to gain a little more weight. Since he is the only vet where I live, I wanted to do it when he felt comfortable. I was nervous that he would start humping and lifting his leg, and the vet said if I started to see that behavior he would move it up. Before the surgery, he would lift his leg every once in a while and humped just a handful of times. Since the surgery (at nine months) he still lifts his leg every once in a while, but he has not humped once. He has never marked. When he does lift his leg, it is not a big deal since he goes on a pee pad in a box, the pee pad still goes up the sides of the box. Anyway, hope this helps! |
Buddy started lifting his leg outside around 5mos old. He was neutered at 6mos. . He has never marked in my home. He doesn't hump either. Carol & Buddy |
I was just wondering because theres a 5 month old yorkie boy that's adorable but he's not yet neutered :( I'm worried he would start marking. He hasn't at all at this point. I don't care if he marks outside just not in the house. Wow everyone's answers were so helpful but different..lol...Maybe it's a personality or social thing, meaning if they see other dogs do it they learn. Since Coco is a girl maybe he wouldnt since she squats?:confused: |
Most vets don't neuter till 6 months. Bailey lifted his leg at about 4 months.. and the marking was MY WORST FEAR with getting a male.. my neighbor had a 3 year old male not neutered, he marked EVERYTHING.. any new bags or shoes or purses..or YOU if you sat on the floor! :eek: So I was so worried about that..but she ALLOWED It.. Bailey was neutered at 6 months.. he marks EVERYWHERE..OUTSIDE..which is fine.. and has NEVER done it in my house. So I'm so relieved. But like someone else said.. he does get ready to at Pet stores.. or places a lot of dogs have been..but right away I pull his leash away and say NO and he doesn't. :thumbup: |
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Neither Max or Bailey were neutered and neither of them ever marked...they were trained at a very early age to pee outside and that's what they continued to do....if you allow them access to the garden at least every hour when they are very young, they get use to doing it outside and won't even consider peeing inside the house. |
I got Codie at 3 months old and I had him neutered at 6 months. He does lift his leg and he ONLY marks outside. He has never marked in the house (thank god). :D |
my boyfriend's yorkie isnt neutered and is 9 months old. he doesnt mark... he lifts his leg but not on anything in particular.. just in the middle of the lawn. |
I was just talking to Rebecca (Hootie, Hobbs and Lamars mom) and she said her vet told her marking is about dominance and if you have a submissive dog, he likely won't mark. I think that sounds like a good explanation, what do you guys think? |
I think that probably is a good explantion.Rocco is a very dominate dog. |
I think that makes sense, because if the dog is submissive he has no need to mark his territory. I wouldn't care if he did it outside, as long as it's not in the house. |
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my male was neutered at 3 months by the breeder. He started lifting his leg outside at about 7 months but has never marked in the house. He is the last in a long line of male dogs that I have owned,all neutered between 3-6 months, and not one has ever lifted his leg in the house. I think I'd go nuts. I think it helps when they are outside trained, too. That's where they go and that's where they mark. |
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It makes sense in theory.. BUT Bailey is VERY dominate.. (He is NEVER on his back.. ever).. yet, he doesn't mark inside...so it can happen even with a dominate dog. |
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Chachi is dominate too and doesnt mark in the house |
Forgot to mention Poli is Pad trained, even though they go outside every couple of hrs, because Rosi is stricktly outside, but sometimes Poli holds it and runs to his pad when we come in, dont know what to do about that... hate to scold him in fear that he might go potty elsewhere :rolleyes: |
Siu Pao marks outside but never inside. He never humps and is well behaved. He is 9 months old and still intact. |
Banjo was neutered at 5 months, and started cocking his leg before this. Now he does it all the time, especially going for walks. I swear he squeezes a drop out just to say Hey I've been here. Hes outside trained so has never marked in the house. He just stand there to have his pee, sometimes he lifts his leg. Oh and yeah given the oppotunity he still humps, but not as often.:animal-pa |
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This reminds me of the first time Jazz's leg raised. We were outside and he was weeing, when suddenly his leg slowly raised up. Jazz looked back at his leg like " what are you doing?":D He has never marked inside. He's pad-trained now- when we got Mo we had to pad train him because Mo would panic and have diarrhea if crated. So we thought it would be easier just to pad train both. Jazz rarely raises his leg now, because he's had knee and hip surgery, maybe? He and Mo were both neutered at 8 months and both squat and neither mark. |
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