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Speaking of dogs....
My little rescue came home yesterday and she's a total love bug. HOWEVER, she's an excited-pee-er. How the hell do I break this?? If it keeps up, Todd will seriously return her so I've got to work hard to change this behavior. She did well yesterday when I brought her home but when Todd was home today she did it several times. I know it's not even been 24 hours but I gotta be sure to nip this in the bud!
We are going outside to potty every hour and I'm praising her like crazy when she goes and she gets very happy when I do that. I had a networking meeting this morning so I told Todd to take her out to potty, then crate her. I guess in going into her crate she got all antsy and excited and peed. Then when I got home and we IMMEDIATELY went out to potty, she was peeing on the way out the door.
HELP!!!
Re: Speaking of dogs....
How exciting! Can you talk to the people who work at the rescue place where you got her for tips and suggestions? I'm sure they've seen all sorts of behaviors. I'd also call a vet. GL!
Unfortunately, lots of little dogs just do this, especially when that young. Their bladders are small and weak and this can continue LONG into adulthood. I have a 13 year old mini dach/terrier cross that still will pee when someone comes over to the house and pets her. Our new puppy is now 9 months old and completely potty trained but still "leaks" when we get home and she's all excited, or when someone new comes into the home.
We crate trained her and made it a point to carry the crate outside when we first got home and let her out to avoid the dribble to the front door. Now she doesn't have to stay in the crate all day but she is always freaking out when we get home and we let her out until she pees. We just make sure we have an easily washable rug at the door! Another note, we have also trained her to pee on command, which is a very nice feature. She's always running around outside when we let her out and we just constantly say "Go pee, Go pee". She doesn't mess around and gets right down to business which was VERY handy this cold winter and it's also nice for the last potty of the night when you're trying to get to bed.
Also, we make it clear to everyone, including my daughter, not to pet her when you first enter the house until you are in the kitchen, where the vinyl/wood floor is. We just ignore her until we are in a safe area and then give her love and keep a pee towel handy! She eventually calms down and then we can play/pet her anywhere in the house!
Good luck!
Congrats on the newest member to your family
If you get a chance, we'd love to see pics!
Our youngest pup was also an exited pee-er and he used to pee on the way to potty too! But he has pretty much stopped doing that now. One issue is the age. He's older now, so his bladder is bigger and he has more control of it. The other is that we make sure that we take him out potty EVERY time *right* before someone comes over (when he gets excited) or when we play with him. It seemed to help a lot. Crating is also super helpful. In the beginning, it may seem mean to crate them all the time but I do believe that it's the #1 most effective way to potty-train so we crate our pups religiously when they're young. Then we slowly give them free time outside of the crate for 20 min after going potty, and then slowly increase it from there as they do well. We also reprimand him when he does it. "NOOO!!!!!" and he knows that he did something bad. Reprimanding after the fact doesn't usually work well with dogs but if you say no while you catch them in the act, they seem to get it after a couple of times. Also, it helps to get some pet spray so that she doesn't smell the scent on your floor and feel like that's an okay spot to go potty. The enzymes of their urine doesn't go away until it's sprayed down properly and regular household cleaning agents don't take care of it. Good luck!!
Heh, Indiana was an excited pee-er until he was well over a year old, and he's not even a small dog (half lab, half kelpie). People would come to visit and he'd wizzerwoo all over their shoes...
TBH, I didn't do anything special - we did crate train him, and I praised him whenever he peed outside. I didn't scold him for his excited peeing because he wasn't meaning to do it (and possibly didn't even know he was doing it, KWIM?) and I didn't want him to think that he was being scolded for being happy to see people.
He did outgrow it eventually, but we just had to be patient - like I said, he was over a year old when he finally stopped (he still gets super excited, but his bladder control just seems to be way better). How old is your new dog?
Conchita is 6 months old, so she's still a baby. I honestly don't know WTF I was thinking getting a puppy.
Anyhoo....she's here so we're trying to crate train (but I'm not being very good at it since she's perfectly content to spend every minute of the day in my lap and the shrill crying is like nails on a chalkboard) and I'm taking her out every hour telling her "go pee" and when she does making a big deal out of her "good pee". It's funny, our other dog (Maggie) goes out with us and has never peed so much....she's following the commands! LOL!
She's also a jumper - granted she's only 7 pounds so she doesn't even reach my knees - so I'm also ignoring her when she does it or telling her 'no'.
LOL yeah, I say that every time I get a puppy.
Seriously, if she doesn't stop jumping (I know she's only little, but it's still a bad habit), try getting her to sit to greet you. I think it worked so well with Indy because it gave him an alternative behavior - something else that he knew he could do (and would be praised and rewarded for) vs just being told no. Does that make sense?
That does make sense. So far this morning has been very successful, and putting her crate in the room with us when we aren't in bed seemed to help a lot last night. She had no accident all all this morning and made it all the way to the grass to potty on her own.
I'm taking Maggie for a walk for about an hour so we'll see how she does in the crate in the office with Todd while I'm gone. She seems to have a fear of men. Fingers crossed!