Submissive Urination
How can you tell if your dog’s urination
is due to his submissiveness? Here are
some tell-tale signs, according to the Dumb Friends League:
- Urination occurs when he’s being scolded.
- Urination occurs when he’s being greeted.
- Urination occurs when someone approaches him.
- He is a somewhat shy, anxious or timid dog.
- He has a history of rough treatment or punishment after the fact.
- The urination is accompanied by submissive postures, such as crouching or rolling over and exposing his belly.
Low-key arrivals
help socially-immature dogs that urinate submissively when greeting their
owners. This is a stage that the dog
will generally outgrow if you are patient.[1] Ignore a dog that urinates submissively until
he has had a chance to calm down. Clean
up all messes thoroughly to remove all trace of the odor. Never
punish him, because punishment will make him more anxious and actually trigger
the unconscious reflex to urinate. Dogs
that urinate submissively or in excitement lack sufficient control of their
bladders, so punishment will make the
situation worse. Once the dog has
had a chance to calm down, try greeting the dog outside or indoors on the
kitchen linoleum or some other easy-to-clean surface. Low-key departures and
arrivals can also help prevent a similar problem called separation anxiety,
described in the next section.
[1] Remember
that you should have already checked with your veterinarian first to rule out
other reasons for the excessive urination such as a bladder infection
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