Lite peeing while walking.... is this marking or a health issue?

[eno]

Not sure if this is a marking,health or behavior issue.

My 9month old has been very good about going outside since about 3-4months old. What I have been finding in the last months are these small ammounts of pee trails on the carpet. Not a full release but just a thin snake like trails on the carpet. He must be walking while peeing because it is not in one spot, and must be like a seconds worth cause it usually is VERY little ammount. I never see him do it though.

He is not neutered yet and so far haven't seen any signs of marking like lifting his leg on anything. He has been showing signs of dominance with trying to stand over other dogs.

I have noticed he seems to drink a fair ammount of water, not insane ammounts but more then my moms mut that is close to the same weight and about 6months older. The reason I finally posted tonight about this was due to him actually peeing in my moms living room. This time was a small ammount but he didn't walk around just in one spot. We didn't catch him till a few seconds afterward but even though the ammount was more then I usually see in those snake like pee trails at home it still wasn't a full bladder release. I took him out and he released a normal ammount.

What the heck does this sound like???

[SalemWitchChild]

I would take him in to be checked just in case. I think there's most likely a health reason for this. It is a good idea to also get him fixed so he doesn't begin marking.

[Nightrise]

It could be a health issue. For my dog, this happened when she turned four years old. She was diagnosed with incontinence (sp). The cause was not old age, being that she wasn't old enough to really have it. Doesn't mean your boy has it, especially since my girl got it for being a girl pretty much. I don't know if male dogs have this problem, even at 9 months old.

She was spayed before her first heat. Her body didn't produce enough of a certain hormone that helped control the sphincter muscle for pee pee. She would just leak and not know why. She actually experienced a period of depression because she was peeing inside the house. Funny thing about it was we know she's really good about it so we already knew it was a health problem and never punished her, yet she still showed remorse, which made us even more sure it was a health issue and confusing to her. It is a side effect to the spay. It doesn't always happen. It did to us. Would I have never gotten her spayed if I had known this would happen to her for sure? Nope, still would have gotten her spayed. She takes ProIn and she doesn't leak.

Of course, your dog is only nine months old and I don't know how the sphincter hormone thing works for boy doggies. My best guess would be a bladder infection, which isn't the biggest thing in the world, but you need to get him checked, because it can be damaging if it is a healh issue and you ignore it (which I know you're not doing). Does he swim? Has he been swimming in a lake by home or something? I knew a JRT who loved water and went swimming a lot in a pond and she had a little bladder problem that was easily fixed.

Take him to the vet. He'll be fine

[eno]

Took him in tonight to have it checked. They don't think it's a UTI since he does not show the signs of it. They did however find bacteria in the sample they took. The Doc wants us to take a normal sample from home and then bring it back in for a comparison.

Wonder if it could be just smells in the carpet from past pee from my last dog. I am planning on getting a rug doctor to clean it up plus use some dog waste odor remover to see if it helps. He doesn't seem to have these little pee trails in the kitchen or anywhere else in the house come to think of it.