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My puppy keeps peeing in my home office...

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#1 ·
Our 3 month old puppy has taken to peeing in our home office. We are now 3 for 3. Every time he goes in that room, he pees on the floor. We can be watching him and he'll just squat down and pee. Even if he's just been outside. He hasn't peed inside ANYWHERE ELSE. Just in that room.

We just moved to this house and are thinking that maybe another dog lived in that room. Yesterday we sprayed nature's miracle on the carpet and then arm and hammer pet odor remover (the kind you vacuum up). Then today....yup. Again. I don't know what to do to make him stop. Is he marking his territory? We went about 2 weeks with no accidents until we got internet in the office and started letting him hang out in here with us. Should we be trying to desensitize him to the area? Should we steam clean the carpets with nature's miracle? Any other advice?

Thanks! You all have been a huge help with everything so far!
 
#3 ·
Is there any way you can just keep hiim out of the room? A baby gate works well for us (at the bottom of the stairs, the cats live upstairs).
 
#4 ·
We've been crate training and have had enormous success with it. We didn't have this "location" problem in our last house (it was newer). He has had almost zero accidents at this new house (we've been there 2 weeks) except for when he's in the office. I guess just restricting him, and keeping him out of the office is the best bet. I have a feeling that its a smell thing. He sniffs around before he pees. Last night I thought he was just sniffing because we had put down SO MUCH odor neutralizer. Not so. Does anyone think that shampooing the carpet might help? We spend a fair amount of time in the office, and it would be nice to not have to restrict that area. But of course we will, if nothing else works. We don't want this one room to mess up all our hard work with the housetraining.
 
#5 ·
Maybe shampooing and then using more odour neutraliser specific to pet smells would be an idea. I think it takes a lot to get rid of a lingering smell especially if the previous owners' aniimal eliminated in the room over a considerable period of time. I had similar trouble with my cats in my last house, and in the end the only solution was changing the carpet!
 
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