Not a dog scientist, but I remeber listening to an npr seqment from an actual dog scientist. I believe that cliche is a misconception. Dogs don’t pee around areas to mark territory. If that were the case, they would be peeing all over your house to mark it as theirs. Rather dogs pee to leave their scent as a “Hello! Mr. Fluffy Butt was here.”

It would be pretty cool if we could tune the algorithm by changing the weighting for how active/hot works…