Submissive urination?

mistyinca · 06-07-2007, 02:46 PM

My Chloe has only started this recently, and it only happens once in a while. The first time, she did it when my sister came to visit. She tends to get excited when people come over...She loves everyone. Anyway, I saw her dribble a little potty on the couch. Then, when I went out of town for 4 days, when I returned, she got all excited to see me, and made a good size puddle on the floor. Then today, her groomer came to pick her up to take her to get groomed, and she got all excited, and dribbled a little pee pee on the carpet.

She's housebroken, and potties outside. She never did this as a young puppy. She's now about 8.5 months. What would cause this to pop up out of the blue, and how can I make it stop?

Thanks,
Misty

LoveLilly · 06-07-2007, 02:51 PM

Possibly a urinary tract infection? I know that my Lilly did submissive urination from day one and part was her submissive tendancy and part b/c she was only 1 1/2 pound pup holding 2 lbs of water so we taught her a calming command and ran right out the door with her. We also never cleaned it up in front of her b/c we did not want her to associate the dribble with any sort of attention, negative or positive. Lilly has all but grown out of this but every once in a while if we are starting our walk and she see's her favorite neighbors she does what I call the army wiggle butt crawl and dribbles a little. also we had not had an episode with our noon time pet sitter in like 6 months and then on one visit our sitter reported that when she arrived Lilly was all excited and dribbled, but it has not happened again so we attributed that instance to full bladder.

mistyinca · 06-07-2007, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by LoveLilly

Possibly a urinary tract infection?

I wonder about that. I have noticed that her urine seems unusually golden yellow. I don't recall it being so yellow in the past. She drinks the same amount of water as always--at least a full bowl full a day.

Is a darker urine a sign of urinary infection?

BoxMeIn21 · 06-07-2007, 04:07 PM

Not so much darker, but frequent and unexpected are usually the tale tell signs. Sending a sample to the vet might not be a bad idea if this is something new.

britishbandit · 06-07-2007, 06:35 PM

I don't think it sounds like submissive urination at all. More like excited urination. What kind of body language does your dog give off? Submissive urination is usually accompanied by a tucked tail, ears back, cowering....etc.

xoxluvablexox · 06-07-2007, 08:23 PM

Yeah it sounds like she gets so excited that she just can't hold it in. lol

Do you give her a lot of attention when getting home after being gone for a while? It might be a good idea to ignore her whenever you get back home from being out for a while. Just walk in the house and ignore her and do your thing like putting stuff away or getting relaxed and then give her attention. That way she doesn't get overly excited when you walk in the door. With people visiting have them wait untill she's calmed down a little bit before they give her any attention. After a while she'll hopefully be more calm when people she loves come into the house after a long time of not seeing them.

mistyinca · 06-08-2007, 11:05 PM

She's definitely happy. Running around faster than you can catch, tail going a billion miles an hour! I thought that was submissive urination when the pee from excitement.

xox--I'm with her all day. I'm a stay at home mom, and she's given lots of attention throughout the day. She's well exercised, well-socialized, etc. So there are rarely times that I'm away from her for a while. On those occasions that I leave for a c ouple of hours, she stays in the crate. The excitement thing is usually when new flavors...er...I mean...people come into the house.

Then just that one time when I was gone for 4 days, she pee'd a puddle when she saw me, and she did what I call the toenail dance--dancing around so much all you hear is the tapping of the toenails on the wood floor! LOL

BratBoxers · 06-09-2007, 01:31 AM

Take her out more often, take her out right before you have company. Just ignore her till she calms down and ask company to ignore her till she calms down also. It will stop on its own if you do these things.

peace36 · 06-09-2007, 08:51 AM

My nine month old malti-poo Max does that. I just make sure he is on tile when company is coming and then once they have said thier hellos i let him on carpet and he is fine.

I love the picture you have of Chloe in the upper left corner she is so cute and what a stylish dress.

MyDogShelby · 06-09-2007, 09:32 AM

If it isn't a urinary tract infection, which sounds to me that it isn't, then she's peeing because she gets too excited when approached by people. This is easily fixable...when you come home, don't make a big deal over her, and make sure you take her outside for business right away...your excitement makes her excited, and she can't help but urinate. When she meets new people, let HER approach them, instead of letting them crowd over her...she needs to get used to them on her own, and not be crowded by new people.

If you continue as described above, you will eliminate her urinating problem. Also, if she isn't well socialized with people and other dogs, start taking her out and about, if possible, so she gets used to new things.

We adopted our dog, Shelby, when she was 8 wks old, and we would get excited when we came home and crowd over her, and she would urinate. So we stopped getting excited, and were more calm about our "hello's", and upon coming home, would take her outside for business right away, come back in the house and then we would get a little more excited over her.
We continued this pattern, and I'm proud to say that she doesn't have that problem anymore. We can get simply ecstatic over her and as excited as we want, and she won't pee.

A simple solution and it was fixed in no time. Let us know how it goes with your pup

mistyinca · 06-09-2007, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by MyDogShelby

This is easily fixable...when you come home, don't make a big deal over her, and make sure you take her outside for business right away...your excitement makes her excited, and she can't help but urinate. When she meets new people, let HER approach them, instead of letting them crowd over her...she needs to get used to them on her own, and not be crowded by new people.

We already do that. She really never does it with me (except for the one time I was gone 4 days), and when I come home, I do take her potty first thing. They save potty for emergencies I swear. LOL

These are VERY isolated incidents. Just the 3 or 4 times I can recall, and she'd been pottied shortly before (except for the time I came home, I took her out of the crate and she peed before I could pick her up--about 1 second). No one crowds over her, she is approaching (if that's what you call excited running and toenail tappping!)

She is almost nine months old, and we've had her since she was tiny. She's never did this as a young puppy, and she is very well socialized and exercised. So that is why I am confused as to why this has happened the few times it did and only recently.