I've had my 13 week old labrador puppy for 5 weeks now, and he was almost fully toilet trained, but lately he'll jump up on the sofa and pee there.Why has he started doing this??
When is time to fix the dog do so. This will reduce accidents in the house. For now you can clean sofa with enzyme cleaner. The best one is natures miracle available at pet store. Do not use ammonia, leach or any household cleaners Don't allow dog on this sofa at all. He marks it as his territory and needs to learn it is not for him to pee on or sit on.
he is just letting everyone know that the couch is his because he the alpha so i think it would help if you showed your dominance better so he knows to keep himself in line
Because he can smell the pee he did there before and now thinks it's an ok place to pee. Clean the sofa with an enzyme cleaner and that will get rid of the smell. You probably can't smell it but he can.
dogs like to pee on absorbent surfaces. Thats why they will naturally go on dirt or grass. To prevent this, I would not let him on the couch or bed for a few more weeks. Though dogs get the bathroom training quickly if done right, they could have accidents just like toddlers so to help them don't let them get into situations where he could go.. at 12 wks you should be taking him out every 4 hours or so and a half hour after play and eating. When he does do this, a firm no and quickly taking him outside will teach him where he should go. oh and a proper cleaner from a pet store will also help. others do not take away the smelll completely
For a dog, almost fully toilet trained means simply not toilet trained. Until peeing outside becomes an imprinted behavior, the dog will still pee in the house simply because it doesn't really know why he shouldn't. Dogs don't care where they pee and poop, as long as it is not where they sleep and it is a soft, porous surface, they will go anywhere. He probably jumped on the sofa one day when he had his bladder almost full and he had an epiphany... Soft, porous, comfortable, and available right now, when he really needed to go, so why not? After the first time, the sofa becomes scent marked as an acceptable peeing spot and he will go back over and over to pee there. You will have to clean this sofa with special enzymatic cleaners to get rid of all molecules of his urine, which he can still smell even if you can't. After that, you need to go back to basics and work on your housetraining. Do not let the dog jump on the sofa at all until he is fully toilet trained. Restrict his access to areas of the house where he can find the mix of soft, porous, comfortable surfaces where he would be more likely to pee on, especially if it's been a while since his last bathroom break. You can also use crate training if you have no problems with it, which usually speeds up the housebreaking process a lot. ADD: For the first answerer: So NOT a dominance thing. It kills me how simplistic those people are. No matter what the dog's problem is, it's a dominance thing and you can fix it by showing who's boss. Really? So if the owner here shows the dog who is boss he will magically stop peeing on the sofa? I'd pay to see that!
