Danny our 3 year old has just started in the last three days to greet you and weeing, I don't tell him off but what should I do.  Also just recently when he gets excited he does it as well.  We have only had him & his sister a year, he is a very frightened dog and tries to please you all the time, if you lift your arm up quick or pick up the mop he cowers.  Bless him.  Any suggestions.

Ignore it. He's not doing it on purpose, so scolding him will make him more anxious to appear submissive.

When you get home, don't greet him until he's in a place, such as the garden, where a bit of pee doesn't matter. Because you'll then be genuinely unconcerned you'll be giving off relaxed body signals and he'll be less anxious and the submissive weeing will eventally stop. You can mop up later when everybody's calm.

The fact that he flinches when you lift your arm up suggests that he's been abused before he came to you.

Weeing like this is submissive behaviour.  He is trying to appease you.  When your dog does this, imagine him saying "I'm only a little puppy - look I still wee everywhere - please don't hurt me"!

If I were you, I'd try to work on building up his confidence and getting rid of his fear, and I think you'll find the weeing will solve itself when that happens.

It may be a temperament thing but the fact that he is now 3 and has taken a year with you to develop this problem I think I would be wanting to exclude a urine infection so would take a sample into the vet to have a look at.  His control may generally be a bit marginal so an infection might be just tipping the balance :)

One of my old bitches used to do this every time she met my son, but only him. I'd check for an infection first, but then meet him outside. That's what my son had to do every time he visited, even if it was pouring down!

Hi

My girl does this! More with my husband than with me.  He just ignores her when he comes in from work and after a few minutes says hello. This seems to have worked.  And again, putting her out in the garden for a wee straight away also helped. My girl changed over night when a fire work went off over her head and she became quite a frightened dog. We just build up her confidence over time and she is slowly gaining her confidence again.  She was affraid of cars, people, kites or loud noises.  Now she is fine with cars (we walk her along a main road) as we built up her confidence by taking short walks by a road and extended the time the more confident she became.  Getting her used to all sorts of noise by getting her used to hoovers, rustle of bags etc.  Now, she wags her tail when she see's strangers.  It just took time and we took everything at her pace.  Classes and socialisation also worked.

WHILE YOU ARE ON ABOUT THIS MAY I ASK
MY STAFFY DOES IT WHEN I TAKE HIM OUT FOR WALKS ON PEOPLE WALKING BY
YER SOME TIMES ITS A GIGGLE :) SORRY BUT I DO LAUGH TO MYSELF
SO HOW CAN I STOP IT .

I also watched the same problem on that new dog show " its me or the dog". the dog trainer advises to ignore theh dog until it has calmed down. no " hi there" usual doggy talk that we all do. it makes them excited and then they wee. Ignore the dog completely when you come home and put them out for a wee first. Dont scold them as they are just so excited that they cant contain themselves. This worked with these two labs and within a week they were "cured".