Need advice with MIckey's excitment pees

[Marissa and 'Mickey']

My husband works from home. He takes care of Mickey all day. I wake up at 6ish and immedicatly take Mickey outside. If i speak to him, he pees. When I get home in the evening Mickey is so excited that he hops over to me. And pees. To end the "accidents," I stopped greeting him inside and making a high pitched excited voice. He still pees. Seamus even takes him out to pee right before I come home. Will he out grow this? He is a puppy! But am I doing something wrong?

Update: Mickey is doing exceptionally well. We started a class called, "I'm a big pup now," at the Humane Society. He is comfortable in this new home and follows Seamus and I around. Mickey even made a friend in the neighborhood, a friendly cat!!! He is still cautious with ....well let's face it his own shadow scares him. However, he is thriving and we can see his true personality coming out more and more everyday. He even let a man pet him the other day without running away and hiding. THAT WAS BIG.

[Kendra K. Rhoton]

He will grow out of the peeing phase... Remington had this problem when he was little but doesn't do it now.

[LuvMyAbby&Kaela]

Article I copied for you.

Submissive Urination.

"Submissive wetting or urination is a normal way for dogs and puppies to demonstrate submissive behavior. Even a dog that is otherwise housetrained may leave dribbles and puddles of urine at your feet and on the floor when greeting you.

Submissive urination is the ultimate show of respect and deference for higher rank. It occurs frequently with young puppies who have not yet learned and perfected other social skills and means of showing respect. Submissive urination in adult dogs is usually a sign of insecurity. Often unsocialized and abused dogs will submissively urinate. Other dogs that engage in submissive urination may simply have not been shown that there are more acceptable ways to show respect, such as paw raising (shake hands) or hand licking (give a kiss).

Submissive urination may be present in overly sensitive or mistreated dogs because they feel the need to constantly apologize. This state is often caused by excessive or delayed punishment which frightens and confuses the dog without teaching him how to make amends. The dog resorts to the only way he knows to show respect and fear, by submissive urination.

When your dog submissively urinates, it is best to just ignore him. If you try to reassure him, he will think you are praising him for urinating and will urinate even more. If you scold him, he will feel an even greater need to apologize by urinating. Either reassurance or scolding will only make submissive urination worse.

Treatment of submissive urination must be directed towards building your dog's confidence and showing him other ways to demonstrate respect. The quickest way to accomplish this is by teaching your dog a few basic obedience exercises. A dog that can earn praise by obeying a simple routine of "Come here, sit, shake hands," will soon develop self esteem and confidence. A confident dog who can say, "Hello, Boss" by sitting and shaking hands does not feel the need to urinate at his owner's feet. "

There are many more helpful articles just type "submissive urination" in your search engine

[Marissa and 'Mickey']

I was hoping he would grow out of it!! That article was amazing. When he does it should I ignore him? Or just the behavior? Seamus and I are working with Mickey on building his confidence. Unfortunately, that I believe will take a while.

[LuvMyAbby&Kaela]

Marissa I think he will grow out of it. I think that as he learns the world is a safe, comfortable and happy place and as he grows to be a confident dog learning how to achieve things (even something as small as "sit" "shake - a - paw" etc...) he will learn that the urinating isnt required to gain your approval or his safety. And in the meantime you should completely ignore it is happening. Like the article said reassuring him will confuse him. Reprimanding him will make him feel like he needs to appologize/pee more, exclaiming "!"eww yuck" etc...will make him feel, again. appologetic. So I would just continue with the good work you and Seamus are doing and completely ignore the piddling. I am sure it will fade in time.

[Marissa and 'Mickey']

Mickey is starting to grow confidence. He found his vocal cords...that's for sure. He is starting to protect us and that worries me.

[Adina P]

My friend's female moodle (mutt x poodle = moodle!) who looks nearly all poodle is about 2 years old and still does submissive peeing. She's VERY outgoing, friendly and thrilled with every greeting. This is especially a problem when she comes out of her crate in the morning or after you've been gone for a while. To quote from my blog about the last time I babysat her:

...the only way to get her out of the house without a piddle of joy (hers, not yours ;-)) is to open the back door, rush YOUR dogs outside, and then at lightening fast speed unlock the crate and RUN out the door yourself...she'll probably beat you and twirl around you so fast that it's not until you come back in that you see the yellow on the kitchen floor.

So when we have her stay with us, that's typically what I do...clear the way for a quick exit so if she does piddle upon a greeting she does so outside. And I also run onto the grass and try to keep her away from my feet.

I think IGNORING Mickey during greetings reduces the likelihood he will pee submissively and then ignoring what just happened if he does pee will help too. Neither of those changes things necessarily for the next time, it's more of a 'dealing with it now' type method.

My middle furry child Thule also went through a phase where she did this with men (she was an 11 month old rehome). So if we had guests we put the dogs in the backyard and guests had to meet the dogs (specifically Thule) there rather than in the house before the dogs were let in the house. She got over it fairly fast.

I think only time and maturity will get rid of it entirely.

[Marissa and 'Mickey']

Adina, in the morning I do not speak to Mickey until we are outside. I wake up and we just walk right outside. We seem to have started a routine. It seems like he only piddles when I get home from work. I haven't noticed him doing it to others!

[Adina P]

Perhaps he's too sleepy in the morning to get excited?

[Melissa & Porter]

Porter (yes, the Porter who plays with your mom :-) was a big submissive urinator. The breeder told me to put a doggie diaper on him--she felt it was so bad (and that may have been part of his discount). Anyway, he is 8 mos old and only does it with new men or tall women that he meets for the first time. (We never did the diapers.) We peed him a lot, which it sounds like you are doing. Also, everytime I came home, I opened the crate, said, "You want to go outside?" and he ran out the back door. Kinda accidentally doing what Adina recommends. I found that if we stopped to pet and greet, he'd piddle. If we went out, he'd just pee THEN get his belly and ear rub.
It sounds like you are doing a great job, jang in there. Porter peed on a friendly mailman's shoes once as we were on our walk--that was embarrassing.

[Marissa and 'Mickey']

Melissa, how long did it take Porter to grow out of it? That is hilarious but I'm sure if Mickey peed on someones shoes I would be mortified as well. LOL

[Kyoko]

My Charlie used to do this. When she got so excited, she just peed out of excitement. But she grew out of it. She doesn't do this anymore. She especially did this when my daughter's friend Sarah came over. So we started to have Sarah greet her outside and come into the house with Charlie.

[Marissa and 'Mickey']

Seamus and I would like to send many thanks for the replies about Mick's submissive urination. I have noticed that he is only doing it when I get home from work. Last night, I tried to ignore him. He was so thrilled to see me and would not let me through without a lot of rubs. He was hopping and rolling on his back with legs stretched out. He is adorable. I believe Mickey now knows that he is in his forever home.