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excited/submissive peeing
i am hoping to get some words of encouragement regarding our new dog. we adopted hailey about a month ago from the Humane Society. she is approx. 10 mos old, is spayed, and is a mix of lab and probably pitty.
First the good stuff: she is getting along pretty well with out other dog, which is nice, and they spend a lot of time playing together. We practice NILIF with both our dogs and have taught her to sit, stay, lay down and shake, all within the month that we got her. she does not have accidents in her crate and does well in there (no SA). she also is doing well with house training, and has only had 1 accident (pee) in the last week.
now for the bad: she is submissive and is constantly rolling onto her back and she pees when she is excited. we have started to behave differently when we greet her to try and keep her calm (make her sit first to help with jumping too), and ignore her for the first few minutes when we get home before getting her out of the crate and all of this has helped decrease the "sprinkling". however she still pees at times and it is getting to be annoying (we should buy stock in natures miracle). for example, last night while DH was in shower and i was sleeping, she somehow got out of her crate because he only closed 1 latch. she then jumped up on the bed, which she is not allowed to be on because she has peed on it before when she jumped up there. so of course she jumps up and is wagging her butt furiously and is excited to see me and pees all over the comforter. she does not squat and pee, it just comes out while she is prancing around, ya know?
she also pees when frightened. DH yelled at her for biting at him in a loud voice and she peed all over her doggie bed. needless to say i told him he cant yell at her like that, but she snapped at him so he was pissed. hopefully that won't be an issue in the future but she has peed after loud noises before as well, when we drop something.
Doctor has checked her out and she is healthy. so my question is, will this improve with age? will it improve as she gets more comfortable with us? will obedience training help(i am planning on starting next week)? Mostly i am looking for words of encouragement. thank you for reading this!
Re: excited/submissive peeing
Have you seen my monkey?
In this case, any type of action to the dog, weather it be positive or negative is the wrong way to go about... when you walk into the house and meet/greet them, that is a stimulation to them, and therefore they will release their bladder. So, when you walk in, do not promptly interact with them, instead, you need to completely ignore them, do not give them ANY attention until they are calmed down, and once that happens, do no overly give them attention, be very subtle about it. Don't use high pitched "happy" voices... just talk to them like you would a human... in your regular voice. Put them outside once they are calmed down, and once they go to the bathroom, that is when you praise them. That way they know that is the correct place to release their bladder.
HTH