1 year old peeing when meeting people

tinyfox

I have a 1 year old collie/retriever and she's fully toilet trained, she wont go in the house even if we're out for long periods but when she meets people that come into the house that she knows she get excited and pees. She doesn't do it when she gets excited about anything else, going for walks, getting treats etc etc only when people come in.

We've gotton people to ignore her until she calms down and she's fine but when she eventually relaxes and they pet her she goes anyway. She wont do it with us only other people.

i'm hoping she'll grow out of it but in the meantime should we be giving out to her when she does or just ignore it as i'm not sure she even realises she's doing it

fintonie

I think one of the things you could do is try to find out why she gets so excited when she meets new people,

is it something she has learned from you or your partner, is she left on her own during the day for periods of time if so leaving a tv on may help,

she is still a pup and I think it will stop introduce another dog to her surroundings may help also. (once she gets to know people for real the excitement will go)

lycopodium123

ah god love her! do you have people coming over regularly? if not, obviously shes just megga excited to be around new things/people/experiences.....

maybe if you took her to the beach or the park or somehow got her involved with other dogs and gave her alot of "other contact" - apart from yourselves; she might calm down a bit whenevver new things/people/experiences are introduced to her at home?

tinyfox

fintonie wrote: »

I think one of the things you could do is try to find out why she gets so excited when she meets new people,

is it something she has learned from you or your partner, is she left on her own during the day for periods of time if so leaving a tv on may help,

she is still a pup and I think it will stop introduce another dog to her surroundings may help also. (once she gets to know people for real the excitement will go)

I'm not working at the moment so i'm with her most of the day every day and we never get excited when people call ( my parents dog is almost 14 and he goes mad when people call cos of us teaching him that when we were kids so I knew not to do that )

Two of my friends call twice a week every week, separately, and she's known them since day one, always obeying them, listens when they call just like us and she even does it with them.

The other dog suggestion wouldn't be an option unfortunately as we live in a rented house and the its to small for another which is a pity as she's very social with othr people and dogs

Cows Go µ

Our collie alsation cross did that at that age too. She has grown out of it now. She did it no matter who came in though. We had too things that we did, ignoring her until she calmed down or if it was us (so no one had been home in a while) we wouldn't acknowledge her and just let her out the back down. The ignoring worked really well though. We don't have to anymore, don't know when exactly she grew out of it, it was gradual. At a year, she was still very puppyish

tinyfox

Cows Go µ wrote: »

Our collie alsation cross did that at that age too. She has grown out of it now. She did it no matter who came in though. We had too things that we did, ignoring her until she calmed down or if it was us (so no one had been home in a while) we wouldn't acknowledge her and just let her out the back down. The ignoring worked really well though. We don't have to anymore, don't know when exactly she grew out of it, it was gradual. At a year, she was still very puppyish

Oh thank god, you have made my weekend . The ignoring thing isn't working as of yet (its been months and nada) but if there's light at the end of the tunnel i'll keep at it.

I had heard this from a few people, none of whom has dogs so to hear it from another doggie person then I can help but believe!! Thank you, thank you, thank you

Cows Go µ

With our dog, Diesel, just used to jump up at the same time as the peeing and if she did that we would just turned our backs on her. Very deliberately. Then when she was calm we would praise her loads. My dad was terrible and never did it and could never understand why she just peed with him. It drove me and mum nuts but she hasn't done it in a long while now

boardbrowser

This is an involuntary response- she really doesn't mean to do it. Certainly any punishment will only make the problem worsen so whatever you do , don't go there.
Ignoring her will help but maybe work on building her confidence when meeting new people as if it's a submissive urination problem she is demonstrating this behaviour as an appeasement gesture.
any looming/ reaching/ petting and staring seems to trigger this urination so ask guests to ignore her, maybe greet her outside in garden so she is not wetting inside.
have her perform a new behaviour such as running after a ball or have guest toss her a treat when they come in. Practice this yourself when you return so that she makes a new association and understands a new greeting ritual that isn't so hands on.

Cows Go µ

Oh yeah, with our Diesel, part of it was nervousness and the rest excitement. For the nervousness, we brought her to classes. It helped her with nervousness a lot. She got socialise a lot and she was really good and gained loads of confidence which helped her a lot