Pees when excited!

[Tona5959]

 

Does anyone know of a good solution to stopping a dog from peeing when he/she is excited?  I have a 2 yr old female (Fa Fa) who PEES everytime she gets excited.  I don't know what to do with her!  Everyday I come home from work and take her out, she pees on the floor, sometimes the couch, the carpet, the car, EVERYWHERE!  I get so tired of it.  I tried putting a diaper on her but I can't leave it on all day because she's potty trained to go on weewee pads.  So she pees by herself whenever she wants.  And I think if I leave the diaper on her all day, it'll probably rash her cute lil behind.  Besides peeing when she gets excited, she likes to pee when she knows she's in trouble or if someone plays with her. 

Another problem is...which is kinda gross, and sometimes annoying...she likes to eat her poop.  And this has been a problem since the first day I got her.  My boyfriend noticed the poop inside her kennel was gone a few mintues after it arrived.  No one even walked close to the kennel besides us.  But anyways, I've seen her do it before..so it's not our imagination or someone who is very very nice and sneaky come pick it up for us (wish that was true)but anyways,  she's quick at getting to it too.  She knows it's wrong, but she does it anyway.  It's not like we starve her, but she still eats it anyways.  I've seen on the market, some remedies to make her poop distasteful, but I wonder if it really works.  And if there are side effects. 

[Julie]

Tona,

My Sgt pees when he is excited too.  The way we keep it under control is when we come home, we don't talk to him.  We walk straight in the front door, go to the back door and take him outside.  Then once he is outside we love on him.  Now when we get home, he runs straight for the back door and waits for us.  We try to have company meet him outside too.  We have not stopped it completely, but it is much better.  Now when we go to the vets, he usually covers the floor, the scale and the table, but they know us and are prepared for him.

As for the poop eating, welcome to PEA (poo eaters anonymous).  Seriously, my aunt is a vet and she told me that if Sgt was eating doggie poo, there is something that we could put in the food to make it less appealing.  He actually likes kitty poo which according to my aunt there is nothing I can do about it but keep him out of the litter box.

Hope this helped.

[April]

I too have one of the founding members of PEA (my hubby wrote the club statement!lol)  If she is eating her own poo or another dog's poo you can put Forbid on the food of the dog whose poo she's eating.  If it's her own poo, then put it on her food.  If it's another dog's, then it needs to be on that dog's food.  It doesn't taste like anything going in, but after it comes out the other end, it makes the poop taste bad so they won't want to eat it.  Cajsa took a few treatments with it, but now she generally doesn't do it anymore.   On occasion she does, but it's pretty rare.
As for the excitement pee, that can be remedied.  Cajsa was an excitement pee-er too.  I just got to the point where I wouldn't look at her or talk to her until she would calm down and sit.  Then I would greet her.  It took a few weeks for her to figure out if she sat and was calm that I would greet her quicker.  But it also let her have control over her bladder better.  I had to make everyone else who came to the house ignore her or she'd pee a fountain so it's something EVERYONE has to do until she is consistently not peeing when excited.

[Jenny G]

Both my puppers are excited pee-ers - especially Lucy!  I do what the others do - walk in and ignore them then take them outside.  Once outside, we hug and kiss them and it's a peefest!  Our problems is trying to train our friends!  They come over and are excited to see Berman and Lucy and end up getting completely soaked!

With the poo-eating, we've never had a problem, but our friends with a pug did. I think I remember maybe sprinkling the poo with cayanne pepper or something and that will keep them from eating it (at least after the first hot bite!). 

[Roberta]

Hi julie and the rest have covered the piddle issue. With the poo someone told me to put pineapple or the juice int eh one that poo's the poo, aparrently don't ask me I ahve not tasted it, but it is horrid.
Roberta

[Tona5959]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!! I'm definitely going to try some of the ideas with the poop issue.  I just hope she won't find certain taste to actually be tasteful and then hunger for more! LOL 

And as far as the peeing goes...I actually ignore her totally, but then when even after she calms down, she's a peeing monster.  It can happen at anytime, at any place.  And does anyone find that their tails get really soaked?  And then they try to wag their tail uncontrollably and it starts to feel like it mists everywhere??  It is so annoying!  I don't think there's a cure for her...she's a special case   

[Stacey]

I too was (that's right 'was') a member of PEA (there is hope)....  My vet actually told me that if my Daisy Mae was eating her poop than either she isn't getting enough exercise or she isn't getting enough vitamins in her variety of food.  Well, we changed her food to Solid Gold and started exercising her more (walks and such) and believe it or not she did stop (this was 1 year and a half ago).:hello2:  We did also try the Forbid and it worked, but unfortunately there were times I would forget to put it on her food and she'd slide right back into her bad habit.....
Now, I am (that's right 'am') the owner of a dog who pee's when she gets excited.  I swear it only started happening after she was fixed (that's my story and I'm sticking to it).  We too do not greet her when we come in and I tell those that excite her not to talk to her when then come in.  It has worked, but it hasn't completely gone away (once a pee'r always a pee'r).....  And yes, Daisy Mae is a long haired and when she does it her tail gets soaked and she sprays her pee everwhere as she is wagging her tail