September 11th, 2009
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Don’t scold your dog for submissive peeing. It will only aggravate the situation. Don’t raise your voice or yell at the dog for any reason, because negative vibes have a tendency to make dogs more neurotic and nervous, more likely to continue peeing. Keep everything upbeat and pleasant. |
For anyone who owns a dog who is engaging in this behavior: I have a wonderful 4 year old Siberian Husky who was doing this fairly frequently for at least a year. I did not scold her or admonish her in any way, and she did eventually grow out of it.
Woohoo! Amen! I just wish my roommate would figure this out – she keeps yelling at my puppy for sunmissive peeing. I bet he’d be over it already if she hadn’t made it worse by scaring him, poor little guy.
My first dog was a submissive pee-er. Yelling or being loud in anyway doesn’t help at all. To be honest my dog never out grew it but that was ok. I loved her very much.
She was also an excited pee-er. lol
….Have to agree with that!
Hey I have four dogs and when I open the gate or door they want to run out and then when I lut them out they will want to come right back in. I want to do something so I will nat have to play the “in then out” game . If you can Email me back and tell me what to do.
Thanks,
Natalie Scott
Thanks for all your supportive and caring thoughts about your dogs – also consider that one way to avoid a mess is to have the dog go outside to greet the people, rather than having them come indoors. Outside your pooch has more room to burn off some of that nervous energy and maybe it won’t get translated into urine!
I’d love some suggestions on how to help diminish submissive urination. We adopted our standard poodle when he was about one year old. We’ve had him for about 5 years now and could not imagine life without him!
The peeing does get old, though. We’ve all learned the situations in which he is likely to do it, but all wonder if there is a way to help eliminate this behavior altogether.
There is no way for us to know, but I wonder if his first family was less understanding and possibly contributed to the behavior by scolding or punishing.
Hi Cheryl- Once you’ve had a vet exam to make sure there is no physical reason fro the peeing, please have a look at my book THE DOG BIBLE because there are a number of ways to minimize or eliminate this problem. It’s a management issue – how you handle greetings – rather than a disciplinary one. Some dogs are just more sensitive to these emotions around separation and regrouping and need help in managing their emotional reactions. Or call into my radio shows and we’ll chat about it! Go to http://www.TracieHotchner.com to get the details.