We have a 7 year old rescue who has a marking issue. He was unfixed when we adopted him at 2.5 (edit: we neutered him when we got him) and we believe that his previous owners either let him just pee in the house or used puppy pads. It’s been soooo difficult to break him of the habit. We used to live in an apartment where it got really out of hand, he marked all over the place. We moved to a house a few years ago and we’ve had a couple of incidents so our preventatives are:
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he is crated when we’re gone or having to leave him alone for more than 5-10 minutes and at night (wife wfh so he’s out a lot)
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he is restricted to our living room/dining room/kitchen area since that’s where we also spend 95% of our time when we’re not sleeping.
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(edit) should have been obvious but he gets tons of potty breaks and I do watch him go when he’s out there. At least every 3 hours or so, except at night when he’s in his crate.
This has pretty much worked until now.
Sometime between two weeks ago when my wife cleaned the walls and today, he has decided to start marking our kitchen island. This morning when we woke up my wife was letting them out and he lifted his leg and she was like what the hell? And we looked and there were a handful of spots where he had marked.
We doused it (like probably way too much) with the enzyme spray we use, it’s the pink spray bottle by Out! called oxy-fast.
But I’m wondering if this isn’t good enough? Does anyone else struggle with this issue and have found a good enzyme spray to use?
Other advice is welcome. Vet appt is in a few weeks but this is an ongoing issue so I’m sure he’s fine. He just had his annual like a month ago and he was good. Thank you!!!
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