My 1-year-old dog pees when he sees people. What should I do?

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.

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.

Many times this is submissive behavior or a sign that Clark is very excited. This is normal puppy behavior and most dogs will outgrow it. Do not punish Clark when this behavior happens. The best thing you can do is either have the people greet Clark in an area that is OK if he urinates or have them ignore Clark when they first arrive until he calms down. They cannot speak to him, pet him or make eye contact with him. If he tries to jump on them, have them turn and walk away. Once he calms down it is OK to pay calm attention to him. I hope this helps and please free to post any additional questions.

I recommend googling ‘Banfield excitement and submissive urination’ and ‘VCA excitement and submissive urination’ for tips on reducing how worked up Harley gets when you or your boyfriend come home or when she is approached by other people. Additionally starting her on daily, natural and safe 5 star rated VetriScience Composure Chews available on chewy.com and PetCo.com will likely help as well Using an adaption calming pheromone plug-in may help lower her overall anxiety levels as elk. Good luck!

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!

Many dogs need to be crated at night to prevent accidents until they are 1-2 years old, so this is not unexpected - I would simply go ahead and crate her at night for now :) Once she's a bit older, you can gradually try giving her more freedom in the house at night. Excited peeing is usually something that puppies grow out of once they're older. In the meantime, you can help by ignoring her for a few minutes when you first get home and asking your visitors to do the same. Once she calms down a bit, you can gently pet her and say hello. Leaning over dogs to greet them also tends to make this problem worse, so crouching down to say hi may also be helpful. You can also take her outside to potty just before visitors come over to help decrease the chances of an accident. It's also very important not to punish her for this behavior, as she can't help it - corrections will only make her more anxious, and often makes the urination worse.

It sounds like this could be submissive urination. It is a sign that Eclispe might be a little nervous or excited about you reaching down to pet her. Submissive urination is common in puppies and they often grow out of it as they age. When you’re petting Eclipse you should get down to her level and try to let her come to you - it’s important for you to not act too excited. This website has some more information: http://m.humanesociety.org/animals/dogs/tips/submissive_urination.html