Hi sounds like you really adore your little timmy i recomend going to vet and haveing his neutered done then after about one week you can try and train him again that curtains and your nice things are off limits he cant help marking if he has all his buisness thats a nature call and thats all there is to that good luck with your little timmy

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my buster

If they aren't neutered, they will continue to mark no matter how old they are.

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Thanks LS!

You have to clean the bed-skirt and curtains with an enzyme pet odour removing solution...the easiest is a SPRAY. If it is not cleaned properly he will mark those places again and again.

Yes un -neutered males will mark..

My neutered male once in a while will take the notion that something is a new piddle pad...I clean it and tell him no and it is no bother. this happens maybe once or twice a year. We had a new bath mat and one of the kids left it on the bathroom floor--and Rico was dancing around looking for a treat or something--like he had discovered this new and wonderful piddle pad.

Even outside...he marks his "fav" places but will go after any new thing he deems piddle pad -ish. I have a black tarp sort of cover over the fireplace in the back garden for the winter--he has been peeing on that eveythime he goes out !!

good luck get some good enzyme cleaner and go at it...

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Rubia -y mi perrito que Rico

Hey, Bijoux is a female and yes he will do it it sucks but it's a part of having a unfixed male.

As Pam said if you fix him with some love you can break the habit because the testosterone won't be driving him to mark. I do highly recommend you consider it, unfixed males also have a habit of running away -gates, doors, slipping collars and harnesses when then smell a female in heat. Which to me is a bigger hazard then the knife, talk to your vet and see what your options it may be something to consider.

If you really are too scared to get it done then I recommend a belly band, it won't stop him from trying to mark but it will prevent him from being able to. Just make sure that you use the napkin and change it often sounds like he's a pretty bad marker.

Good luck!

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Simple. You have 3 choices...

1. Get him neutered and then re-train. If you wait too long, it's a very hard habit to break.

2. Get a belly band and keep him in it unless he is outside going to the bathroom.

3. Leave him intact and put up with his marking and inappropriate urination, the smell, etc. in your house.

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"Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way.....
but you can never say again that you did not know." William Wilberforce 1759-1833

There are thousands upon thousands of dogs neutered everyday with no unpleasant results, other than having to wear the cone of shame for a few days. Don't let one experience scare you. My minpin was neutered at 6 months because they are notorious runners, (plus the health benefits etc.) and the only place he "marks" is the edge of the yard, and every corner on our walks. --gotta find his way home you know just in case...LOL

Thank you everyone for your help. I will try the belly band and see how that works. And I will give real consideration to getting him neatured.

Regina and Timmy