Your dog is house trained, he is a happy, playful companion but when you come home, visitors are coming to your house, or when he gets too excited, you’ll have a puddle on your floor. This can happen frequently to puppies but normally dogs outgrow this phase while their confidence level rises.

First and foremost, submissive or excitement urination is not a housetraining problem. Punishing or scolding your animal does not help, the opposite is true, the problem will worsen.

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Just recently I took care of a friend’s dog who had an emergency and needed to leave for a few days. “Bonnie” is a sweet 2-year old poodle mix, rescued from a shelter, hause trained but unfortunately still suffers from submissive urination on occasion. I have done some research on this subject, please see our article >> Submissive Urination.
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