I need your help. My little dog was never properly house trained (he is 2....we got him a year ago) and he keeps peeing on our carpets. I try to keep them cleaned with my carpet cleaner but I need something to deter him from doing it again.
Does anyone have any home made repellants which would be suitable for carpets?
Thanks for your help
endee

Are you wanting a repellant to prevent the dog from entering the room with carpeting? If so, then you may want to invest in a baby gate (the ones with the swinging door without having to remove the whole gate are really nice), or do actual boundary training with him.

Or are you thinking of a finding a product to neutralize the odor from the urine? Just remember that urine is amonia - so do not use a product with an amonia base. You can use a home made solution of vinegar and water, or check with your local pet supply for pet urine neutralizers, like odormute.

Otherwise, treat him as you would a puppy. NEVER let him out of your side EVER, or put him in his crate. When you're not looking... guess what he can do!

If you see him doing ANY of the behaviors indicating 'looking for a place to go', distract him quickly and bring him outside. Stay with him outside until he goes, giving him whatever command (I use "go outside"), then praise him like he just won the academy award!

If you are getting very frustrated, or have just given up... you can always get 'belly bands'. You can find them by doing a search on ebay.

I totally understand what you're going through, as I have just brought home a 5 mo old Chinese Crested show puppy and am going through the same thing!

Good luck!!

Hey, welcome back, Rocket. Hope you stay around.

It is far, far easier to either blockade or removing the thing that you don''t want a dog on.

We removed our carpeting years ago and replaced with vinyl flooring. No more issues with cleaning up hair, vomit, urine, poo, dirt, mud, etc. etc. etc. All of these things will happen even with the best trained dog. Illness can lead to accidents, a dog who goes out rarely (if ever) comes back in clean.

If this is to retrain the dog to potty, then train the dog. No repellant will train the dog to go potty outside. Even insufficent training habits at an earlier age can be fixed. There are many dog schools out there.

Now another problem that must be addressed is that there is NO CLEANER in the world that removes the spoor or dog scent in a carpet. Yes, there are many that gets 95% or what the human nose picks up, but a dogs nose is far more sensitive.

This leads to an issue where the dog thinks its ok to potty on a particular spot because another dog has - granted we may know that it was them, dogs tend to forget these details.

Dogs sniff before they go. Potty is a territorial marking as well as a relief thing. Their natural tendency is to go where a dog (or even themselves) has gone before. If the carpet has been soiled, it is forever marked and in the dogs mind needs to be remarked to maintain the territory.

Establish a Potty time. Through out they day start making cheerful "Potty Time" for the dog. The excitement and cheer in your voice will tie the words Potty Time to a good thing. Go out with the dog and encourage more by being cheerful and repeating "potty time"

We also add a cheerful "Hurry, hurry, go potty." when outside, and when she/he does the right thing, praise and pet them for doing something which should be a normal thing, a natural function.

You may feel like a fool doing this in public. Ah well, if they can't see that your talking to the dog, who is more of a fool?

How often? Depends, is your dogs tendency to go potty once an hour or once every four hours? Use that as a guide.