How to Stop Your Dog From Marking Indoors

Video Transcript

"To teach your dog not to mark indoors it is again a good idea to understand why dogs mark, they mark to determine territory. So if it's a possibility to neuter your dog at an age before they begin to mark, that's not a bad idea. If your dog is already marking, this is a reinforcing, self-reinforcing behavior. So it can be difficult to teach your dog to stop doing it. If you are able to catch them you can redirect them, you can watch for them to do some sniffing behaviors, the things that proceed them lifting their leg to mark. Then you can also there are some great tools you have at your disposal, one of them is a belly band. It's just a piece of fabric that is sometimes gathered, sometimes not, has a place for you to place a regular sanitary pad that's disposable, and then Lady, come here. You just place this around your male dog's midsection, and Velcro it on, capturing the penis within the fabric and over the sanitary pad. So that now if your dog does choose to mark it's going to be confined to that pad which can then be thrown away. Remembering to check and change this on a regular basis, so that - urine can be very caustic - so that there's no burning of the penis or irritation from the fabric. You also can place things on areas that your dog chooses to mark. Sometimes placing aluminum foil or something around a leg, a fabric leg of a chair where they - where a dog typically marks - will cause the urine to splash back on, and which isn't the dog's intent, and that will sometimes help stop them marking inside as well."