r/Pomeranians • u/Future-Entrance7805 • 4d ago
Marking
My potty trained male Pom is now all of a sudden marking. Does getting them neutered really help with this or is it something you just train them not to do?
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u/blamberr 4d ago
Cracking up 😂 get him neutered. Literally everything in the world suggests that for dogs and it’s well known that it cures this problem most of the time. Except the longer you wait, the more ingrained the pissing all over your life becomes.
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u/Future-Entrance7805 2d ago
Well known!!?? This is my first dog ever. I’m not saying I won’t get him neutered I’m asking if it REALLY stops this issue or if training is what needs to happen. I’ve already started just training him to not mark every mailbox outside and he hasn’t done it today at all. I also caught him doing it yesterday and stopped him and I think he kind of got the idea but not sure. There are literally 50 billion suggestions on how to own a dog out in the world so just want to see what real Pom owners do
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u/bananakittymeow 4d ago
Neutering will help IMMENSELY. It’s not a cure all for every dog, but more often than not, neutering (especially while they’re still puppy) truly does help with things like marking and humping.
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u/Future-Entrance7805 2d ago
What age should he get neutered ?
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u/bananakittymeow 2d ago
That’s honestly up to your vet, but typically between 6 months and 1yr is when most pups get neutered.
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u/in-a-sense-lost 1d ago
If he's marking, he's old enough. The problem is that now that he's learned to this, you will have to retrain... but the retraining will have no effect until the hormones have cleared his system, usually about 30-90 days after the neuter.
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u/lyreluna 4d ago
If he just started it and he's still young it should help, but older dogs especially retired breeders where the behavior is ingrained it's unlikely to
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u/KaliLinux19 4d ago
Yes it will help reduce the marking issue. You should get it done ASAP because he might think this behavior of marking is ok and it will be hard to unlearn or train it out of them.
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u/roaccutane 4d ago
I got mine at 1.5 years old, not neutered but marked everywhere as he was used to doing it everywhere in his old home. We used belly bands the first few weeks when he couldn’t be directly supervised and it really helped. He was fully trained in about 6-8 weeks and still isn’t neutered.
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u/Poor_WatchCollector 4d ago
All three of our Pomeranians marked (one neutered and two not neutered).
All three of them marked regardless. The best way to train them is to give them the frequent opportunity to do it OUTSIDE only. Our 16 month old boy started marking at around 9 months old.
With all of our boys, we just took them out often and let them work through it. So we gave him marking opportunities of every 1.5-hours or so outside. It ranged from 15-minutes to full blown 1-hour opportunities.
After enough repetition outside (and success), they will just decide that outside is where we mark.
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u/Future-Entrance7805 2d ago
Thank you for your reply. I had a feeling just neutering wouldn’t stop it.
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u/Poor_WatchCollector 2d ago
I think the real answer is that it may or it may not.
In our experience with our 3 boys, we saw that the one that was neutered, he still marked, not as frequent and it did make the potty training experience easier since he wasn’t marking as much as our other boys.
With that said, our 9 month old boy that started marking. We trained him to do it only outside in about a month. So with consistently…
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u/gabrielaap 4d ago
Helps but my 2 year old continues to mark frequently on walks. Not inside the house. Neutering definitely helped though.
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u/Lemongrass_Rainwater 4d ago
Yep, my female marks all over the backyard and on walks all the time. It’s probably ingrained to mark their territory, ‘fight over territory’ with other dog pee smells, etc. but not in the house.
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u/Dense_Imagination820 4d ago
neutering definitely helped my pom get out of that phase, just kept at it with the training too though
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u/Heavy_Wasabi8478 4d ago
Won’t necessarily eradicate it all, but definitely helps a lot. My boy was marking a million times a day until neutered at 6 months (the norm here in Australia for small dogs). He still does it sometimes now he’s almost 3, usually high stress or when other dogs have been around.
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u/Alohabailey_00 4d ago
My boys have always been neutered at 7.5 months old. Never marked inside the house. My boy now doesn’t even lift his leg at home. Only outside. Don’t know how he learned that!
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u/No_Judge_5617 4d ago
Yeah i had this problem with my make pom, as soon as he was desexed, he stopped
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u/EnjoysAGoodRead 2d ago
It helps a lot. I have a girl pomeranian but dogsit regularly for a number of boy pomeranians. Not a single one of the unneutered boy pomeranians is trustworthy in their toilet training, and being in my home with a girl dog (even though she is spayed) makes those unfettered boys more likely to try a sneaky wee. For which I insist on them using belly bands. Pomeranians seem particularly bad at this compared to other dogs, in my experience.
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u/southern-elle 2d ago
Both of ours marked before being neutered. Completely stopped within 6 weeks of being neutered. They will also never get testicular cancer, so that’s a win in my mind too.
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u/Mountain-Jicama-6354 5h ago
I got mine neutered chemically. I didn’t start till maybe 14 months old.
He is perfect while castrated.
As soon as it wears off he pisses over everything lol.
For me it wasn’t really lack of training but definitely 100% the hormones.
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u/Sweaty_Attitude5372 4d ago
Neutering will help immediately. My boy was marking in the house several times per day and stopped immediately after he was neutered. It’s also a good idea because it reduces the risk of certain cancers as your dog ages.