terrier cocking his leg up everythin!!!

we have a norfolk terrier x jack russell who is due to turn 2 on the 31st if he makes it that far!!!

he lives with 2 females is not castraited and is often found to have urinated up strange places within the house?
is her marking his teritory? would castration help? is it cuz he's with 2 girls?

other that this problem he is a fab little boys dog!!
pls help..xxx

Castration may help but there would be no guarantee it may well be the genetic background of the JR. They were mostly small cross-bred terrier type that were used on farms, not really house dogs. That does not mean they can't be happy in a home but stopping the marking could be very difficult. Why not try tardak first and see if that helps, go back to the basic house training and see if the is any improvements and make sure every place he has ever ‘been’ is cleaned in strong detergent not bleach.

in my opinion....yup!

Best try chemical castration first to make sure, one does not want to put the dog through an unnessasary operation just in case it helps.

Castration would help in the long term, but only alongside re training. Unfortunatly this has probably become a learned behaviour as well. It should be much easier to retrain after castration, but may still take a few months.
Not sure how long the chemical castration works for but I would suspect not long enough to change the behaviour.
I personally would castrate as apart from this problem it will benefit in other ways as well.

There is one now available in the UK that lasts for 6 months although there is a version that will last for 12 but that is not available in the UK yet.

See this thread http://www.dogsey.com/showthread.php?t=86424 developed I believe to avoid the problems associated with castration.

I agree with Pita I'm afraid, try chemical castration first, only reason I say that we used to own (years back) a SBT male who wasn't castrated and he used to do it, we took him on as a adult, had him castrated and he still did it. I'd check with your vet ask his opinion about chemical castration as if that doesn't work it would of saved you alot of money Good luck

Hi Ali not addressing the castration issue but two things to try which might help , make sure he is 'as empty as possible ' before being allowed freedom of the house ( if he goes out for a walk he will use up most of his urine scenting outside). If he has regular scenting places around the house (providing the surfaces are suitable and not polished furniture) first neutralize the odor with white vinegar, wash with a solution of biological washing powder and finally rub with a tiny drop of olbas oil as a deterrent (this evaporates so will need to be reapplied).