[rainfielder]

I am having trouble with my Standard poodle peeing whenever he greets someone. It gets worse when he sits on their foot and pees. It is not a lot but enough to be annoying. He's a beautiful dog and well behaved but I would like to have him get over this bad habit. Is it a usual problem with males?

[KristinaL]

Is he neutered? Sometimes that helps but unfortunately sometimes it's just something that they do and you can't really help it unless you somehow stop the dog from getting excited when people come over lol

[rainfielder]

Someone recommended a book by the Monks of New Skete. I did find some good advice in that book. I stayed up all night and read it. Thanks for your advice.

[lange]

Hi. I've had two dogs who have done this; one male, one female. They seem to do this for two reasons. One, as an over dramatic sign of appeasing & submitting to the person OR two, because the dog is overly excited and literally can't hold his bladder because of it. Is your poodle a puppy? They usually out grow the behavior as they mature.

If the dog is urinating because of submissiveness, it's best for people to ignore the dog & not look directly at the him nor make him feel threatened. What can make the urinating habit worse is when people react to them, it then encourages the behavior. So it's best to ignore & dismiss it. Scolding or even trying to soothe the dog (pretty much any attention) can encourage the unwanted behavior. If your dog is a nervous dog in general, you can try exercise's in building his confidence which would help him overall.

If your dog is getting overly excited then you could try practicing calming with your dog. And hopefully the people he's meeting can not be so highly excited too; as that might be another cause. lol If they waited for your dog to be calm before greeting or looking at him it would probably encourage calmer behavior. I KNOW it's not always easy to get others to help but hopefully they can respect that.

[Deafdogsrule]

My Oliver submissive pee's when he feels threatened by someone he trusts. Meaning if I or my Mom do something that makes him nervous, he pees. basically, I ignore him. If he pees I ease off the pressure, but ignore the pee. The more you react to it, the worse it gets.

Teach your boy to sit and stay while visitors are being let in to the house. then teach him to sit calmly for greeting. that often will help (as long as you dont train him using adversive methods, which can make submissive peeing worse)

[rainfielder]

Originally Posted by Deafdogsrule

My Oliver submissive pee's when he feels threatened by someone he trusts. Meaning if I or my Mom do something that makes him nervous, he pees. basically, I ignore him. If he pees I ease off the pressure, but ignore the pee. The more you react to it, the worse it gets.

Teach your boy to sit and stay while visitors are being let in to the house. then teach him to sit calmly for greeting. that often will help (as long as you dont train him using adversive methods, which can make submissive peeing worse)

Just those few little things over the past week and he's a;ready doing better. I was over reacting for sure

[puppypaige]

I'm finding that ignoring them is the best course of action for a lot of problems, peeing, trying to force you to pet them, overly-excited, etc. Who knew that just pretending they aren't there would be so effective? Its pretty cool.

I hated the submissive peeing thing. It drove me crazy. Thankfully my dogs are older now (though not much) and I don't have to worry about that problem. But hearing about other people having to deal with it does remind me why I don't want another puppy (no matter how cute they are).

[rainfielder]

I am still so new to the site and I couldn't find where to ask this question but I was wondering about the pictures I tried to post. They all still say Pending approval. Did I miss a step somewhere? I posted about 10 pictures. Is there perhaps a minium?
By the way, thanks everyone for the answers to my question. It helped a lot.