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Thank you so much for your reply! It would be so good if we could get to the bottom of this as we have tried so many things and nothing has worked.

In the first few nights in the new apartment, we put his bed with us in the bedroom and closed the door since it was a new place and he was quite anxious at the beginning (ie he was scared to go into certain rooms). We would wake up in the morning and find that he had already peed. Then we moved him to the living room and he peed there (it not always the same place but he had roughly two areas where he usually peed). Finally, we closed him in the kitchen but we had no better results. Sometimes, he would take two pees not one. About two weeks ago, we tried again closing him with us in the bedroom, and for three, four nights he did not pee. But we had a new problem - he peed on our way out (bedroom, hallway, outside corridor, elevator). I swapped with my boyfriend (the "alpha male" in our little "pack") too see if it made any difference, but nothing changed.

He is alone during the day but for no longer than he was in the old apartment. The only difference may be that a month before we moved into the new apartment we had my boyfriend's parents staying with us. His mum was at home for a part of the day and he may have got used to her company. Because of the peeing problem, about one and a half months ago, we arranged for him to be taken out for walks with other dogs in the forest three times a week (which means he is alone at home only two days a week). This has made him more confident outside and more relaxed but has helped in no way with the peeing.

He has absolutely no problem urinating outside. He does it two or three times during the morning walk (less in quantity because he has already peed inside), and several times during the evening and the night walks. Noises, lots of people and heavy vehicles do scare him very easily though I find that since he started going for the walks with the other dogs, his reactions are less pronounced. To pee and pooh, we go to quieter places.

He does seem to drink a lot of water but I don't know how much is normal. After moving to the new apartment, we started taking his water away earlier around 8:00-8:30 pm. In the old apartment, we would only take it away after his last walk around 10:30- 11:00.

We take him out for walks three times a day or twice on days when he is taken out: 7:00, 18:30, 10:30-11:00 and we have been trying to reinforce our leadership/ dominance by following some of the advice in the Secrets to Dog Training.

It would really help if you had any advice to give us, or point to any possible clues as to why he does this and how we could tackle this! We really don't understand it and don't know what else we could try. Thank you!