Spaying or neutering also helps prevent behavioral problems
like urine marking and escaping.
it does sound
like urine marking, but spayed females may also urine mark.
It's best to spay or neuter your puppy before he's old enough to begin engaging in behaviors
like urine marking and mounting.
• Promote better behavior: When you have dogs that are not neutered, they are more likely to roam, can have higher instances of dog bites because of the amount of testosterone in their bodies and can display behaviors
like urine marking, excessive barking and mounting.
Not exact matches
Many cats that do not
mark their territory with
urine may begin to do so if a condition
like hyperthyroidism develops.
* Medical Alert: Due to painful urination, some cats will actually urinate standing up which can look
like urine spray -
marking.
A dog feeling insecure may
urine -
mark on the bed because it feels
like the safest, best protected, most central place in the home.
Older pups might even decide to
mark with
urine or defecate on something that smells
like their owner.
Since cats
like the smell of themselves, the
urine marking also helps calm them down by spreading their own scent onto items that smell
like their owner.
Ammonia smells a bit
like cat
urine and could confuse your cat and trigger some
urine marking behavior, which is a problem you can do without.
«Neutering male pets is a simple surgery that reduces unwanted behaviors,
like roaming, fighting and
urine marking territories,» Chassy explains.
The earlier you spay the better — performing the operation before her first estrous cycle lowers her risk of mammary cancer later in life and can stop her from developing bad habits
like urine -
marking.
Use a dog crate to prevent unexpected damage,
like chewed door frames or
urine marking while you're away at work.
Rather than being an agonistic display of territorial defense, urinary scent
marking by domestic dogs appears to be a means to make a strange environment smell
like home, by masking the unfamiliar odors with individual
urine.
There, Dr. Rachel treated animals with problems
like aggression, separation anxiety, house soiling,
urine marking, fears and phobias, and various species - specific problems.
WebMD» slideshow on behavior problems in cats offers solutions for issues
like scratching, litter box avoidance,
urine marking or «spraying,» and excessive grooming and meowing.
When
marking, she'll usually back up to a vertical object
like a chair side, wall or speaker, stand with her body erect and her tail extended straight up in the air, and spray
urine onto the surface.
It basically smells
like old pee, which will draw your puppy in, and his natural instinct will be to
mark over the old
urine, again.
Like the boys, they frequently
mark urine to draw attention from the opposite sex.