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Does your dog normally mark in a new environment? My dog is perfectly house trained and *never* goes inside our house or other people's. But my parents' dog is a big time marker - every time he comes here he marks (although with poop) and he does the same thing when they go between their house in NY and their place in FL.

We've tried to get him not to by taking him outside enough to prevent it, but it seems like if he wants to mark he's eventually going to.

we moved into a "new" house while ours is being repaired, and she didn't mark anything when we got there.

she did mark my in-laws house that we stayed in during the hurricane, even though she had been there many, many times before (and it wasn't an emergency - she had just been out)

good luck! i would say grab some carpet cleaner, just in case

Nope! When we first got him, he did this at my parents' house and my brother's house the first time he went to each, but that's it and he has never done it since. He's moved a lot, too-- my sister and I shared an apartment (never once peed there, even when we first got him!), then we each moved and he spends time in both our places, then I moved again!

So, be prepared, but it might not be an issue at all. I am not pretending it was any special training I did, however-- we just got lucky!

Yep but we expected it (have moved 5 times since we adopted him and know its an issue). We have a bissel spot bot, nature miracle no marking spray, and I made fleece/velour belly bands for the first few days so if he did, it wasn't as bad or exist to clean up - or we could see if he was "trustworthy" yet. After a few days he's fine.

Every. Single. Room.

ETA: And that rug she's lying on in my avatar. I really could have strangled her for that one.

Ours was a bit of a different situation, but I just had to share. We have a greyhound and we occasionally foster greyhounds through our rescue org. 2 years ago, we fostered the sweetest, most adorable guy, Sid... who did the most incredible damage every time we left the house. Not only did he have an pee/poo accident EVERY time we left for the first month, he also tore apart blinds, chewed up drywall, badly scratched up our dining room table (which is one of my very favorite pieces of furniture). See evidence... We had to give him back to the org after 2 months of fostering because it was just too much. The sad thing is that Sid and our dog Gia LOVED each other!

I haven't been able to foster another dog since then, it was just too traumatic!!

Our situation was a little bit different than yours. My oldest dog had separation anxiety for years & would pee on our floors while gone especially after we moved. I have horrible allergies so we took out all the carpet upstairs and left the carpet downstairs. She gets to stay out during the day while our other dog is in the kennel (he was our chewer) and we haven't had an accident sense.