So sick of cleaning up pee.

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

Cocoa is for the most part potty trained.  But if she gets excited she will pee all over. I was told they outgrow this phase.  But i am afraid my husband started a new Pee issue that she will never outgrow and I am sick of cleaning up pee.

Last month I left for a week to vacation with my parents. I am almost positive that my husband has been "spanking" the dog.  We do give her swats on the nose for biting us but that's all I will do (yes I tried the grabbing her mouth thing and she would just come back and bit harder thinking it was a game).  But I have a feeling when I was not here he took it farther than that.  Every time I called to check in all he did was complain about the dog. He thinks pets and kids need this and there is no other way to disipline and we are always fighting over this.  Well ever since I have come home if I try to pick Cocoa up to put her outside or in her cage when she is running from me, as soon as I touch her she drops down and pees. If I am doing laundry and drop a sock or something and chase her down to get it back when I get close to her she drops down and pees.

I am so sick of cleaning up pee. I have to put the dog in her cage every time my daughter eats or has a snack because she will sneak the dog food and we are already dealing with poo food issues. So this is happening about 2-5 times a day.  I try to trick her to go potty and put her outside but if I try to put her in the cage its pee time.  I am still watching her poo with new food or I would use treats to get her to go in the cage.  Heck its been over a week on the new food maybe I will just go ahead and use treats for this?  But then I will still have to deal with it when she steals the kids toys or laundry.

I just needed to vent and maybe beat the crap out of my husband.

They say they outgrown excited pee but do they ever outgrow fear pee?   None of my other dogs ever did this.

[Adina P]

Awesome...glad DH is excited about it.  As to the ecollar, used correctly it's not about pain but about remote control.  Yes you can give a stronger correction, but its main utility for hunting is that you don't have to carry a leash and the dog can be many many many yards away and you can still communicate with them remotely.  There is a vibrate option on many collars and you don't typically zap a dog hard for obedience training corrections.  Just wanted to clear that up. 

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

Oh interesting.  I just figured the E collar thing was a huge no no.  But I really did not want him using it with out training first.  He wanted to use it for when she is jumping outside on our daughter.  A couple days ago she jumped right at her face nipping. If regular training does not work I might look into that. I just dont want it being used in the wrong way. Once you do something bad to these poor babies you can ruin them for life and I don't want that for her.

My yorkie was a horrible barker so i went and bought a bark collar for him.... once he got zapped a couple times I felt so bad and took it back. It never worked he would just keep barking but after added a yip.

There was this one trainer DH wanted but he was a E collar trainer so I just figured not to even think about it. We did call and leave a message but that was 3 days ago and he never called back.  This guy was a correction officer at a prison and also trained dogs on the side for fun. He then started a training program with the prisoners and saved over 300 "problem" dogs from shelters being put down.  I just don't really see cocoa as a "problem" yet she is just being a typical puppy but we want to train her now so when she is full grown at 30 pounds she is not hard to control.

Its so hard to make the right choice because you really only have one change at this. Because its really hard to undo bad.

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

Lindsey -- Sounds like things are moving in the right direction.  Kudos for being persistent with DH and getting him headed in the right direction.  Sounds like you are headed down a great path.  Keep us posted.