Hi everyone have a 12 week old basset hound bitch - the excitement weeing is mad! she does it whenever some one comes in the house whether she knows them or not even outside if a stranger stops to pet her she does it. Is it just a puppy thing that she will grow out of naturally or do i have to do something?
All  advice welcome :-)
Deb

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HTH

So you don't know the answer to the question then tohme?

:) :D

Hi Deb,

She may or may not outgrow it.  (I have an 18 month old who does it.)  

You can help her control it, however, by not adding to her level of excitement.   Ask you family, friends or strangers not to pet her or talk to her for the first minute or two.  In other words, ignore her.  When she calms down they can (calmly) and with a calm voice give her a pat or toss a toy for her.  

.. and make sure that in your home when you do greet her that you do so somewhere where it is easy to clean up.

Stacey

Ignore her :)

When company come over tell them to ignore her, do not talk or pet her right away till she settles. Then after some time has passed then pet her when she comes up. Same with strangers.

My bitch use to do this all the time and I tried the ignore thing and it worked like a charm, after a month she no longer peed when people greated her. Even when we would come in and pet her she would be so excited she would pee. She stopped all that at 6 months and Iam glad to say she is now 6 years old and haven't had a problem since.

If you do a search on her you will get loads of info, Im sure it has been discussed many times...Good luck :)

many thanks to all i will persevere! at the mo it doesnt even have to get to the stage where she is ignored she wees as soon as someone comes in the door ( except for me  - im obv very boring!) but i suppose we have to cut her some slcak as she is only still very young!

Has she had her urine checked to rule out a urinary tract infection?

Deb,

Right, she will get more control as she gets older.  Even with my 18 month old the times he does piddle have all been avoidable if we (my husband, guests) had behaved correctly toward him.  I've only had him for two months and according to his breeder she had no idea he had this problem.   She said he piddled once when she came back from a long holiday and only one other time.   However, when she brought him to my home to stay (he'd been for a visit two weeks before) he piddled in excitement as soon as he got out of her car.  (He'd had a great time at my home on his visit!) He piddled out of fear for the first couple of weeks because he was so unsettled.  And now he just piddles perhaps once or at most twice a week out of excitement - like when he first sees my husband in the morning, if my husband does not do what he's supposed to with him.  (grrrhhh)  

In the breeder's home he was one of eight dogs and I think he got very little individual attention.   The only attention he got as an individual was grooming and going to ring class when  he was going to be shown.  So although I originally thought his breeder knew he had the problem and chose not to tell me, I now think he had no reason to piddle.  Life was not so exciting, he had no individual attention and hence no reason to piddle.

You might want to bring a urine sample to the vet to check for infection.  However, if she does not "drip" when she's not excited it's not likely to be infection or any physical problem.

Stacey