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Topic Dog Boards / Behaviour / peeing wen greeting
- By MINI-MEG [gb] Date 22.07.06 09:23 UTC
ebony has been doing this for a wile but it settled but shes started peeing wen greeting people,ive tryed ignoring her,getting people to ignor her till she calms down & distaracting her to no avail :( . so ive started putting pullups on her wen people come,in the hope that she wont like feeling the wet against her skin and stop doing it :rolleyes:
has any1 tryed this,do you think itll wrk?
or am i waisting my time?
- By Jeangenie [gb] Date 22.07.06 09:25 UTC
She's not doing it deliberately, so you're totally wasting your time and possibly making it worse by distressing her unnecessarily. :(
- By MINI-MEG [gb] Date 22.07.06 09:58 UTC
so wat do i do then?
is this somthing she will grow out of?
she dusnt seem to mind me putting them on her and dusnt seem distressed at all,i want to try to stop this behoavour before it becomes a habit :rolleyes:
- By Jeangenie [gb] Date 22.07.06 10:01 UTC
Make sure that when she greets people she's somewhere that the submissive weeing doesn't matter - ideally in the garden. Then you can completely ignore it, she'll gain in confidence and it'll stop. Our labrador was about a year old when she grew out of it.
- By onetwothree [gb] Date 22.07.06 09:57 UTC
You're wasting your time. 

Weeing when greeting is submissive, she is just saying "I am no threat to you, I am only small/young/weak" to switch off any possible aggression in strange people or dogs.

If you want this behaviour to stop, the only thing to do is to make her feel more confident and secure.  Basically socialisation, maturity and time. 

Putting pullups on her (whatever they are exactly) isn't going to help her feel any different.  If they stop her weeing, she will do it again as soon as you stop using them because the underlying feeling is the same.  If they don't stop her weeing, she will just be wet and uncomfortable, and in my opinion, that's cruel because she is only displaying normal canine behaviour.
- By Isabel Date 22.07.06 09:58 UTC Edited 22.07.06 10:02 UTC
I think your best bet is to try to ensure greetings occur on a readily cleanable surface then you can both be as relaxed about it as possible.
- By MINI-MEG [gb] Date 22.07.06 10:22 UTC
so should i just leave it and hope she grows out of it ?
- By ali-t [gb] Date 22.07.06 10:33 UTC
my staffy was about 2 when she grew out of it.  It stopped at about the same time as she started standing up to other dogs rather than letting them bully her.  She now rarely shows submissive behaviour unless its a big rottie that she fancies! :eek:
- By Daisy [gb] Date 22.07.06 10:39 UTC
Our rescue dog did this until he was about 4 or 5 :D Only to OH (on his shoes :D ), who had to greet him in the front garden. We cured the problem by OH totally ignoring him - didn't look at him, walked straight past him into the kitchen. Again didn't even look at him for a few minutes, then just said hello - no stroking etc. Very quickly the problem stopped :)

Daisy
- By Jeangenie [gb] Date 22.07.06 10:41 UTC
Yes. Just ignore it and she'll grow out of it. (And it's much easier to genuinely ignore, not just pretend ;) if it happens out of doors.)
- By ridgielover Date 22.07.06 10:42 UTC
Hi Mini-Meg
Yes, just let her grow out of it in her own time.  Just manage the situation as has been suggested by letting her greet people outside or on a surface that can be easily cleaned.
- By peacebabe [gb] Date 22.07.06 12:48 UTC
We found by totally ignoring Paisley, that she grew out of it as well. I know you want to sociaize her but when people come put her in the kitchen b4 you let them in and don't let them even look at her, till she is calm. she will soon get the message, ours did!!
HTH
Aly xx
- By Lori Date 24.07.06 12:14 UTC
Mine did it until he was about 10 months old. I found if I told guests to ignore him completely and just walk on in, preferably right out to the garden, that he did it less. I found that the humans were calmer too when they finally did say hello.

It's the joy of puppies. :-D
Topic Dog Boards / Behaviour / peeing wen greeting

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