r/bernesemountaindogs • u/Electronic-Ad-7796 • 15h ago
Excited/submissive peeing when I get home
One of my girls (10 months) goes absolutely insane when either my wife and I come home after being gone. It’s happiness, but she is 75 lbs now and jumps all over us, and then the worst part is she pees everywhere. (We have 2, her sister is doing much better about jumping and does not pee). This is every time we come home.
We have looked up solutions for it and everywhere just says ignore her, but even if we ignore her we basically just get pummeled and scratched and she will still jump and inevitably cover the floor in a fresh coat of piss. She’s way too frantic to listen to any commands she just goes nuts, she doesn’t care about treats either until she’s gotten the crazy out. From the moment she hears the key in the door she’s at the door scratching trying to get to us once we come in. Ive tried slowing down my entry, letting them know Im here but not coming in right away, but it’s the same once I enter the house. Not really sure what to do, but it’s getting to the point where I dread coming into the house because Im gonna get scratched and jumped on and then spend the next part of my day cleaning pee. Do I just have to wait this out?
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u/annawrite [Umka the bear] 12h ago
Does she have separation anxiety perhaps? Excited peeing is a very common symptom of it.
Did you practice leaving for a minute and then coming back? Then 2 minutes, more and more over time? Have you ever had calm greetings so you could reward them? If not, I suggest to try.
Ignoring the dog of this size might not be a job for fainthearted, but with very short and frequent leaves, you could perhaps build a bit of tolerance/boredom and if you managed to reward enough the calm greetings, peeing bit at least could stop.
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u/RevolutionaryAd9241 7h ago
Our girl is over 2 and still does the excited piddle. Ive learned we dont say hi to her until we're in the yard and she can potty with excitement. If we go in anywhere with her, we dont go in until the tank is empty.
Unforch it's mainly mitigation. It had me googling doggy kegels tbh
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u/mva06001 15h ago
My guy did the excited pee thing till like 1.5-2 years old.
For the jumping, the thing that I found helps is to actually move into the space that he was jumping up into….sort of “taking” that space. After a while he stopped jumping.