marking already!!?

[Discussing Labradoodles & Goldendoodles]

I must have the two most precocious pups in the world. Sherlock, who is 8 months old now, starting lifting his leg a week before he turned 4 months old. I had him neutered the same weekend. Noah is only 11.5 weeks old, and today, he was lifting his leg on what seemed like every other plant he walked by. I bent down to check and he was definitely marking. Noah watches what Sherlock does and likes to mirror his actions. Did anyone else have a puppy this young lift his leg? At least Sherlock never lifts his leg in the house, so hopefully Noah won't try to do this either.

[Adina P]

hmmmm, you've got a handful there :-)
I haven't heard of any dogs marking at such an early age... I wonder if he would be a good candidate for early neutering instead of waiting the typical amount of time until he turns five or six months. Hopefully somebody else has had experience with this.

[Teresa]

I've never heard of this happening so young. As a matter of fact, Hudson just started at 6.5 months and I thought that was young - he isn't doing it consistently though. What I found strange was that right after he was neutered - he started really getting humpy - his big stuffed fluffy ball and his dog bed are his favorite....um....exercise points. Then just after that he started lifting his leg on occassion. That's been going on for about 2 weeks now.

What are you feeding them? :-)

[Janie]

Takoda is 8 months old...he still does not lift his leg.