[nagdu] Dog is marking

[Julie J.]

I don't know that I'll have any good suggestions, but to understand your 
current guide is lifting his leg and urinating small amounts in your home? 
Do you have another male dog in the home or does one visit frequently?   Did 
this just start or did it begin when you brought your dog home?

I had house guests last year who had a neutered male dog, but he had a 
serious attitude.  If his bits weren't missing I wouldn't have believed he 
had been neutered.  Anyway I have my guide dog who is a neutered male.  The 
little dog started marking on corners of things and doorways.  My dog never 
did mark anything indoors, but the little dog doing it was upsetting to him. 
I kept as much as I could shut and inaccessible to the little dog.  I kept 
the two dogs separated as much a possible in distinct areas of the house. 
Ultimately my guests moving out was the once and for all fix.

My neutered male guide does mark outdoors when out of harness.  I have no 
problem with this.  I figure it's his yard too and why shouldn't he let the 
neighbor dogs know that?  He has never marked indoors or while in harness so 
I'm content with our arrangement.

You might try keeping him on leash so you can catch him just as he's moving 
into position so you can redirect or correct...whatever your method is.  And 
just to make sure there's isn't some health issue going on, you might give 
your vet a call and see what he thinks.  I'd especially do this if he's 
urinating frequently, it's a lot of urine, he's drinking a lot or any other 
change.

HTH
Julie


-----Original Message----- 
From: bobetteandflint
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 6:03 PM
To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nagdu] Dog is marking



My 3 year old male neutered dog who is a successor dog wants to mark. What 
should I do?
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-------- Original message --------
From: minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com>
Date: 11/07/2013  5:34 PM  (GMT-06:00)
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [nagdu] some miscellaneous issues and updates from Aleeha and 
Dallas

Alleha,

Have you tried using food rewards to give him something positive to
focus on? Viva doesn't like trains so I give her lots of treats and
encouragement whenever we ride one. Whenever you coax Dallas under a
seat, give him some treats so he can associate  it positive thoughts.
As for the pulling into the grass, do you take him out on a schedule?
I take Viva out on a pretty constant schedule so if she pulls into
grass, then I definitely correct her for that. He's probably just
sniffing around.

Minh

On 11/7/13, Aleeha Dudley <blindcowgirl1993 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>   I know I haven't written in a while. It's been quite the busy time here.
>   Good news: Dallas did fairly well at our state NFB convention last
> week. He didn't have an accident in the hotel, but he was a bit
> constipated for a couple days. The biggest issue I saw was his dog
> distractions. He likes to twist around in harness, making things very
> difficult. Most of the time, nothing but a high collar will get him
> even close to past a distraction.
>   I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for a couple of problems I'm
> having with Dally boy. He's a wonderful guide, but these issues are
> somewhat annoying. The first of them is his hesitance to go under
> chairs. I almost have to drag him under the chair, which makes both
> him and me uncomfortable. A sighted person says he shows some fear
> when I try to get him settled.
>   Second, Dallas has a similar behavior on busses. He seems very
> fearful and, at times, cowers under the seat, leaping up at every
> stop.
>   Third is his irrational fear of vacuum cleaners. I can handle this
> at home, but when one is being used, in a restaurant, say, I literally
> cannot keep ahold of him.
>   The last issue is the most serious. Dallas likes to pretend he needs
> to park, pulling off to the grass and not going. He also has a
> tendency to stop in the sidewalk and stand there, looking around. No
> amount of coaxing will get him going again.
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Aleeha and the little yellow Dally boy
>
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