excitement pee

aaf10

I have diagnosed our golden with excessive greeting disorder. It is getting a little better now that he is over 6 months old. He is potty trained, housebroken. Has not peed indoors in 2 months except on 2 occasions, both of which are within the first 5 minutes of guests coming over (obviously we do not get this many guests or at least guests he has met for the first time). He is jumping, sometimes will lie down for a belly rub if they start petting him and in the between the chaos..he ends up peeing on the floor (I don't think he even realized that he peed because he actually does not stop and squat to pee, it just happens/drips out). Does this go away? I am a little lost on how to train him to stop doing this.

gatorwife

Can you have him greet guests outside?  I bring my excessive pee dog outside when the guests arrive, and then let him inside.  Sometimes they greet him while he's outside. Most of the time they greet him when he comes back inside, and has nothing to dribble out.  It works for us.  He is also housebroken, but has the dribbling when guests come.  I don't know if it ever goes away, but just cater to it, so you don't have to follow him with paper towels and spray. 

ndolehan

Our dog - Dakota - does this, she's almost 5 years old and has done this forever. I don't think she knows she pees, I don't think she can help it, and I don't think she can be trained "not" to pee when excited. If it's not something she can control, I don't think she should be "in trouble" or anything along those lines.

When ever we know we have people visiting we greet them outside so when she pees it is outside instead of in the house.If we know it is someone coming over to fix the stove/furnace/only at the house for a short time, we put her in our bed room. If she doesn't see the person she doesn't pee.

Dakota also just finished a prescription of Prozac, which helped. She did still pee when excited and when she met new people, but not as often or as much. 

aaf10

Thanks ladies! I think meeting guests outside is actually a great idea! I have a feeling it may never go away. 

mainerocks

My parents and my brother have both faced this with their GSPs. What worked was to completely ignore the dog upon arrival for 5 or 10 minutes. No look, no touch. Now both dogs are fine but I can't remember how long it took for that to go away. (Although if my dad is gone for a long time on a trip, he does still greet her outside because that excitement is still just too much). 

darkling_glory

mainerocks:

My parents and my brother have both faced this with their GSPs. What worked was to completely ignore the dog upon arrival for 5 or 10 minutes. No look, no touch. Now both dogs are fine but I can't remember how long it took for that to go away. (Although if my dad is gone for a long time on a trip, he does still greet her outside because that excitement is still just too much). 

THIS!

One of my foster dogs would do this when I walked in the door. He was so excited to see me and his but was wiggling and then there would be little droplets of pee.

So we started the "no touch, no talk, no eye contact." When I entered the house, I completely ignored him. I put my purse down, I stuck my coffee cup in the dishwasher, etc...

After a minute or two, he was calm and sitting down. THEN I would greet him.

It got rid of the peeing entirely. And it's something guests can easily comply with.  

hillysuze

If I know someone is coming over, I have to let Lola outside and watch to make sure she pees. If she doesn't, she stay out until our guest greets her outside. She gets so happy when people, she sits and then squats and out it goes, usually a huge huge supply of pee.

This especially happens with my mom, my dog loves her to pieces. I think I'll ask my mom not to pay attention to Lola but it would be hard because she put down her dog in October after 13 years and she can't stand to ignore a dog..