Our dog is “marking” in stores!!! ?

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Anonymous wrote:To actually answer your question OP, yes it is unfortunately normal for some dogs. Mine does it. I do not take him into stores (even Pet Smart or Home Depot). I know he does it because he does it at the vet's office on occasion, and when I apologized and asked for paper towels and spray to clean it up, they told me it happens fairly frequently.

He's a large breed unneutered male, they are much more prone to it.

Why do you own an unneutered dog?

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Anonymous wrote:I despise dogs in stores.

I despise most people who bring their dogs in stores.

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Anonymous wrote:I despise dogs in stores.

Not the dogs fault. I despise the people that bring them into stores

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Anonymous wrote:To actually answer your question OP, yes it is unfortunately normal for some dogs. Mine does it. I do not take him into stores (even Pet Smart or Home Depot). I know he does it because he does it at the vet's office on occasion, and when I apologized and asked for paper towels and spray to clean it up, they told me it happens fairly frequently.

He's a large breed unneutered male, they are much more prone to it.

Maybe neuter your damn dog?

DP but one of our dogs was a rescue at 18 months and was probably neutered shortly before at the rescue. Because he was neutered so late, he has some stubbornly ingrained undesirable behaviors, and marking is one of them. This is why he gets to wear a belly band any time we bring him to a new indoor location. It does the trick. We don’t bring our dogs anywhere dogs are not allowed though.

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leave your dog at home. he doesn't belong in stores!

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Anonymous wrote:This can’t be true. You didn’t stop taking him to stores after the first time? I love dogs but you suck.

This. If this happened to me even one time, I would never again try to bring ANY dog into a store. (And I have only ever brought a dog into Petco.)

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassing, one time was in a pet store, another time in a hardware store. Is this normal? When we go for walks, he dies tend to stop and “mark” a lot.

Anyone experience this?

Whyyy are you bringing your dog into stores?!

Do not bring your dog inside stores. It is rude, selfish and entitled.

Keep your dog at home or have one of your wait outside the store with him.

What is wrong with dog owners in this area???

Dogs are allowed at pet store and Home Depot but op needs to clean it up and leave dog home if they cannot figure this out.

No.

Service animals only at Home Depot and other stores.

Take it up with those stores. They have decided to have open pet policies.

Do they? I can’t find any pet policy on the Home Depot website, but Google seems to think that the official corporate policy is to only allow service animals, but that individual stores may have the discretion to adopt more liberal practices. It sounds like the official policy is service dogs only, but corporate isn’t going to make their branches enforce the policy when they know someone trying to bring a (non-service) dog into a store is inherently selfish and unreasonable.

Moreover, just because something is allowed, doesn’t validate it. There are many things that may be allowed, but that doesn’t male it okay. I doubt Home Depot officially prohibits nosepickers, but picking your nose would not only be rude and socially unacceptable, but also a potential health risk to your fellow shoppers, somewhat akin to taking a dog (especially one with a habit of marking) into a store. Even if pet stores are “for pets”, that doesn’t mean pets are required. You can buy pet food and even toys for Fido and Fifi by yourself, without their supervision, and no employee is going to regret missing the chance to clean up their puddles.

A store shouldn’t have to forbid something for their customers to show a little courtesy and respect towards their fellow shoppers.

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Anonymous wrote:Embarrassing, one time was in a pet store, another time in a hardware store. Is this normal? When we go for walks, he dies tend to stop and “mark” a lot.

Anyone experience this?

Stop taking your dog in stores. Problem solved!

+1000

Pet stores and hardware stores often allow WELL BEHAVED dogs. OP your dog is not well behaved. Stop taking it out.