Ok. So now I am noticing that my pup is a submission pee-er. Because I noticed that the pup was a little bit nervous-ish when I met her, I made sure that we always entered the house calmly and without massive greetings. She does not pee when we greet her, though... although she does tend to display more deferential postures when greeting me (a guy) as opposed to my girlfriend.
She has not had all of her parvo shots, yet, so we are not getting her out and about. When the vet warned of the parvo epidemic here and to not take her out (where other dogs have been) until that last shot, I worried about her socialization.
She appears to love meeting people, though. I took her to a green house / garden center yesterday. She sort of rushed up to a man and did that semi-submissive curling near his feet... when he leaned over to pet her... she flips to her back a sprinkles a bit. She did that when another man bent over to pet her the day before, too. (this is why I decided to take her out to the garden center)
Unfortunately, most of the people who greet a puppy insist on squealing and get exceedingly dramatic. Although I try, I can't stop everyone.
When greeting me, it looks like appropriate puppy behavior. Nothing unusual.
So, with my intial philosophy of doing everything low-key: entering the house calmly... doing my own thing well before greeting her... my greeting is barely a greeting at all. This is going well. She doesn't get terribly excited. She is happy, but not barking to get out of the crate. In fact, she will sometimes do a little happy dance and then lay back down in her crate before I greet her.
However, if she gets to know me and my girlfriend as calm people, I might be setting her up to be more anxious around enthusiastic people.
Also, it is interesting that even after 8 hours in the crate (in the morning and after work), she doesn't sprinkle when I greet her. Her bladder, I assume, is fairly full at these times... so she is able to contain the pee even under those moments.
I don't know. She doesn't seem frightened of people. She rushes toward strangers (unfortunately) with tail wagging.
I would declare that it is excitement pee, but the manner in which she flips to her back before sprinkling looks like a submission display.... surely, it is partially combined with excitement, too.
Hopefully, this is part of her puppy era and won't last into her adulthood. We live in an area of very little human traffic, so I'll need to get her out there.
I haven't seen her pee when greeted by a female, but she's only been greeted by our female vet and one lady at the green house.
praying that this is just a puppy phase! (but will try to get her more exposed to safe, calm men)
She has not had all of her parvo shots, yet, so we are not getting her out and about. When the vet warned of the parvo epidemic here and to not take her out (where other dogs have been) until that last shot, I worried about her socialization.
She appears to love meeting people, though. I took her to a green house / garden center yesterday. She sort of rushed up to a man and did that semi-submissive curling near his feet... when he leaned over to pet her... she flips to her back a sprinkles a bit. She did that when another man bent over to pet her the day before, too. (this is why I decided to take her out to the garden center)
Unfortunately, most of the people who greet a puppy insist on squealing and get exceedingly dramatic. Although I try, I can't stop everyone.
When greeting me, it looks like appropriate puppy behavior. Nothing unusual.
So, with my intial philosophy of doing everything low-key: entering the house calmly... doing my own thing well before greeting her... my greeting is barely a greeting at all. This is going well. She doesn't get terribly excited. She is happy, but not barking to get out of the crate. In fact, she will sometimes do a little happy dance and then lay back down in her crate before I greet her.
However, if she gets to know me and my girlfriend as calm people, I might be setting her up to be more anxious around enthusiastic people.
Also, it is interesting that even after 8 hours in the crate (in the morning and after work), she doesn't sprinkle when I greet her. Her bladder, I assume, is fairly full at these times... so she is able to contain the pee even under those moments.
I don't know. She doesn't seem frightened of people. She rushes toward strangers (unfortunately) with tail wagging.
I would declare that it is excitement pee, but the manner in which she flips to her back before sprinkling looks like a submission display.... surely, it is partially combined with excitement, too.
Hopefully, this is part of her puppy era and won't last into her adulthood. We live in an area of very little human traffic, so I'll need to get her out there.
I haven't seen her pee when greeted by a female, but she's only been greeted by our female vet and one lady at the green house.
praying that this is just a puppy phase! (but will try to get her more exposed to safe, calm men)