How to stop excitement urination in dogs? Do pills or diapers work?

My heart hurts for this poor dog! It sounds like she is suffering from submissive urination, and this will take time and training to fix. Do not make a big deal when you come home. Come in quietly, greet Abby softly, and let her approach you. If you make a loud noise or rush right over to her, that can lead to the submissive urination. Don't comfort her when she cowers. While you think you are helping her, you are actually teaching her that it's ok to behave this way. Comforting her reinforces the behavior. When people come over, I'd put her in a crate. It needs to be big enough for her to stand up and turn around in. This will give her a safe space of her own. Don't let people approach the crate, give her space. Patience is key in dealing with these dogs, and losing your temper will make the problem worse. Speak to a vet about getting a referral to a professional behavioral expert to help with this problem. Best of luck, I hope this helps.

Hi there and thank you for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! This is a common behavior in puppies. This should subside over time but one thing that may help is having any friends or family that are over to the house completely ignore Pinky until she calms down. You can even have them offer a treat and make her sit and stay to get her to calm down. This will help with the spontaneous urination due to excitation. I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns and I would be more than happy to help you further. Please take the time to mark this question as helpful or not as it helps us to improve on the quality of our answers to other pet owners. Thank you kindly!

What he's doing is probably submissive urination. He sees you as an authority figure, or someone he's very happy to see and urinates. Submissive urination is normal canine communication. When a dog submissively urinates, he’s trying to convey that he’s not a threat. Dogs who submissively urinate usually do so when greeting people or animals, during exciting events, while playing, during physical contact, such as petting, or when scolded or punished. When in a situation that seems to trigger submissive urination, a dog will tend to display submissive postures, such as cowering, lowering the body, raising the front paws, tucking the tail, flattening the ears back, licking the lips or displaying a submissive grin. Submissive urination is most common in puppies, but some adult dogs submissively urinate as well, especially those who seem to lack confidence. The following suggestions might help you manage, minimize or stop the behavior. If possible, greet him outside. Toss a handful of small treats or a few favorite toys in his direction as he runs up to greet you. Ignore him when you first come home and walk through the door. Wait until he has completely calmed down before interacting with him. When you finally greet your dog, do so calmly. Look off to the side instead of straight at him. Sit on the floor or squat down—and avoid looming over your dog as you bend toward him. Teach your dog to perform a behavior, such as sit, when he greets people. First, practice the sit behavior outside of the greeting context, in a calm place, without other people around. When you pet your dog, touch him under the chin or chest, rather than on top of his head or ears. Keep play sessions with him low-key and play games with him that focus on toys rather than bodily contact.

Thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach! The best thing to help with this is trying to avoid the trigger (such as calling her name on a high pitch voice or getting vocally excited to see her, act). When she does not pee in these situations, make sure to let her know that that was the desired behavior with praise and a treat. Remain consistent and this will work for you. Have a good day!

I am very sorry this is happening with Kobe. I hope it is reassuring to know that this is a very normal puppy behaviour, and it will reduce with age. You seem to be doing everything correctly. Greeting outside is a wonderful idea. I would also suggest a tactic that may be difficult to start with but will hopefully solve the problem. Do not greet or interact with Kobe at all when you first come home. Wait until he is completely calm, sitting without barking. Then go to him and say hello calmly. Over time he will learn that he has to be calm for you to greet him and will do so straight away. This should ok time help eliminate the overly excited peeing. Please continue to ask questions here on the forum if you need any further support!

If you have tried everything and nothing is working than your vet could prescribe medications to see if they help. If she seems very anxious than an anti-anxiety medication, like Prozac or Trazodone, may help. You could also try an Adaptil collar and see if that helps. Hope something helps soon as I know it can be very frustrating. http://www.adaptil.com/us/#redirected

It sounds like your pup suffers from submissive urination https://www.petcoach.co/article/submissive-excitement-urination-how-to-control-it/ . Many dogs do outgrow this by 1 year of age, but I would also try to alter your behavior around him and decrease yelling as it sounds like it can be upsetting to him and in dogs, yelling is usually not an effective training tool. I would recommend looking into some positive reinforcement training resources such as The Puppy Primer by Patricia McConnell or How to Behave so Your Dog Behaves by Dr. Sophia Yin.