Boo still wees when excited

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She is now 8 months old - house trained very quickly. Not had an accidient indoors for months. But, when she gets excited when someone visits she runs round in circles and wees at the same time.

Hubby let her 'wake me up' this morning, she has never been in our room before. She jumped on the bed, ran round my head weeing everywhere!!!!!

Should she have grown out of this by now?
Any advice?
 
She may never "grow" out of it, because you generally see this behaviour in submissive dogs, not neccessarily "young" dogs, however as they mature it can certainly become a bit more controlled, but submissive/excited dogs can piddle into old age like this.
You can however make things more low key to help her to hold and not get so over excited.
When you greet her and when guests come, she really need to be ignored until the atmosphere is calmer (upon entry) of humans is a prime "exciting" scenario, never have anyone give her direct eye contact or bend down to her (this will set her off) instead place her out (kitchen/garden) let your guests come in and be seated and calm and then allower her to enter but ask guests to ignore her, ask them to do this until she settles and lies down then give a quick treat/stroke under the chin with no bending or eye contact, but nothing ott that will set her off again.
Get them to give her a treat as a positive instead of lots of attenton.
Aslo this maybe a good time to introduce a clicker for an association to snap her out of certain behaviour you are less able to control. eg, you are out for a walk and someone goes to stroke her or dog approaches and she hits the deck shows her tummy and piddles:D if this is what she does. By introducing a clicker with a positive treat before hand (home work) then u can click to get her attention back on you without a huge fuss and walk on.
Im not saying dont get her excited because will will no doubt play/cuddle her, just make it calmer/low key, and when she gets to excited walk away, this will also encourage her to leap up and follow you (her focus is then switched) and the piddle stopped in it's tracks.
Like I say, it generally remains but becomes less severe with time and a bit of tactical distraction.

Dear lord.....edited cos I said a very rude word, instead of stroke, I wrote the F word:o
 
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Thank you - that was really interesting and helpful. She is an excitable and submissive dog. You only have to growl at her and she throws herself on her back or curls up in a ball as though we were going to hurt her. She has never been hit or kicked.
So my next question is...what have we done to make her like this and how can we make her less submissive and upset when we tell her off (which isn't very often as she is a good girl and a pleasure to own)
 
You have not done anything, bless you. This is her and many thousands and thousands of other dogs that are submissive, confident, calm e,t,c:D, and to be honest it a good survival tactic to display this behaviour, she is telling you/anybody she means no threat/harm, when she meets a dog and she acts this way she is far less likely to be attacked then a bolchy/more confident dog.
You need be be more aware of the triggers and change your /anyones behaviour towards her at these times, and find positive focus to distract her when she would be about to display the behaviour/body language she would when the piddling is about to errupt, you are now familair with this, this gives you and advantage to put your cue in, for instance someone comes through the door, have the clicker or a ball toy at had when you are caught off guard, this will distract her focus and "low key".
Get involved in some fast paced training to build her confidence, past pace is fun and gives her no time to stop and dwell, think agility, anywhere she can see loadsof people and dogs and they are not just something she sees infrequently and has to much focus for/gets to excitable.
What instance would you need to tell her off/how do you go about it?
 
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The only time she ever gets growled at is for begging for food. We never have the dogs in the kitchen when we are preparing food or eating. They go in the adjoining room but the door is left open. 9 times out of 10 Boo totters off with Moss and sits near the door untill we tell her its ok to come in. But occasionally, she sneaks in and crawls under the table. Thats generally about as naughty as she gets. The rest of the time she is a star. She doesn't chew anything she is not supposed to, she doesn't jump on the furnature unless invited. She really is a good girl which we put down to having a good teacher in our other dog which is a border collie.
But yeah, when we do growl at her she throws herself on her back and curls up as though we are going to kill her.
 
Just to add - we now don't tell her off for sneaking in but calmy pick her up and put her in the other room (although she has already threw herself on her back so I'm sure she already knows she has broken the rule!)
 
Ok, I would stop the growling as this will no doubt be a prime time for her to "become submissve and encourage of display of appeasement from her" instead if its to much temptation close the dog so she is not in the room, or train her to stay on something using a clicker and an aid (matt) bed, something a little more positive for her to do.
Could she have her dinner in a kong, so she know when you have yours she remains in her room with her positive association?
 
gable said:
Just to add - we now don't tell her off for sneaking in but calmy pick her up and put her in the other room (although she has already threw herself on her back so I'm sure she already knows she has broken the rule!)
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She will not be aware of the rule breakae, she is meerly responding to your body language, and getting it very right by all accounts:) reverse that and decome familair with hers and its triggers.
You would do better to leave the room and ignore her then call her after you as you go, this way she has to follow, and you are not coming towards her.;)
 
This is all making sense now- thank you.

Both dogs get a small treat after we have eaten and cleared the table. We have always done this with our older dog. She just seemed to accept that she doesn't come in the room when we are eating and simply lies down by the kitchen door and usually falls asleep until we have finished.

We just though Boo would do the same...which she does most of the time.

Thanks for your help.

So do we need to build her confidence?

I have just got back from bringing the horse in and changed my routine slightly. Rather than opening her crate door and making a fuss of her I just opened the door, ignored her and put the kettle on. She wouldn't come out of the crate!
 
Certainly build her confidence, do this via training with her, google clicker training and see what you can teach her, and again find some fast paced exercise/training for u both to do, when she is having funn and running she is less likely to react to...everything. Keep her focus off her "target" and onto you with her fave toy /clicker and treat. This way she wont see everything as exciting around her and and begin with the sumbissive behaviour. A bit like you snap a naughty dog out of an unwanted behaviour with a positive distraction you are doing the same with a submissive/excited dog.
I would come home open the crate then go straight to the back door and open it, see if she would come out and make a bee line for the garden instead of you, who is now ignoring her to as to not encourage the behaviour she displays (this is my routine when I get home), let her come back in and find you! a give her a low key treat instead of an ott greeting this way you are still being positive but not making a fuss when you come home which is triggering her behaviour.
 
My bfs OES did pee excited till he was about 1 year old. Teal my springer x still accidently pees a bit if he gets really excited and OTT normally if I egg him up with his Kong tennis ball....its the only squeky thing we have. And only comes out couple times a week for mum Nd Teal Walkies as the puppy kills / or looses them.
 
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