She gets SO excited! (pee-problem)

[MyMaggie]

Omgosh. It is so funny, but starting to take a toll on our floor and carpets!

Maggie is 6 months old, and has been doing great with potty training. Pretty much completely trained, only had an a few accidents since we got her.(Was our fault , for not taking her out to do her busniess in time.) So everything was going smoothly until a few weeks ago.. suddenly she pee's ALL over the place when Hubby comes home, or if we come home from going out. It's a daily thing. Hubby comes home, Opens the front door, Maggie comes running, Hubby BOOKS it to the back door, to open it and run out so Maggie will chase her out there. As soon as she reaches him, she flips out, all excited, jumps around, lays down, flips over onto her belly and Starts Peeing! It just squirts up all over the place, even into herself!! :/ If he makes it outside in time, she does this on the deck. If he is too slow, it is on the kitchen floor. We try to drag her out the door, still peeing!!!!!
If I hear him coming, I try to let her out right before he walks in, but if she knows he is home, she won't walk down the deck stairs. She will just whine and jump up on the door, and the window next to it (completely destroyed that screen btw) and won't stop until he comes outside and runs down the stairs so she will follow him.
We can't get mad at her, because it is too freakin funny,and she is so cute. We're not really laughing though. Since the excited peeing has started, she is also starting to have more accidents in the house, and favors a spot on the area rug in the living room. That has happened twice this week. And she did run downstairs to poo on the carpet twice, but we figured out it was likely because it is the only carpet in the house, and it is GREEN. It looks like grass. : / . She knows to use the bell when she needs to go out, and we can usually tell when she has to go out anyways by the signals he gives off. Both incidents happened when we weren't watching her though.. I started giving her a very little bit of freedom around the house, just for a few moments at a time. Mabye she just isn't quite ready for that.
How long does this last? (The excitable urinating) I hope she grows out if it.

 

[magoo's_mama]

We have an excited peer too, the only thing that kind of works is not to touch them when you first come home, try to wait a few minutes or get the puppy outside. Magoo is 16 months and completley house trained but he pees with excitement every day when his dad comes home or whenever we have company. When we have company I put Magoo on his leash before I answer the door and then let him go right outside for them to greet him or he will pee on thier shoes. If I know when dad is coming home we will wait outside in the yard. I wish I had a better answer for you, thank goodness we don't have carpet!

 

[mom2ash]

Bo went through this phase too. He used to do it all the time when my husband would pet him. We would have to take Bo out in the yard and Buck would pet him there and Bo would empty his bladder while Buck loved on him. He still does it sometimes, but not nearly as much as he used to. But I hear that some dogs can do it forever.

 

[Tulsa-Dan]

Totally ignore the dog when you arrive home. That means no touching, no words, no eye contact. NOTHING! Give him time to settle on his own, then call the dog to you and reward him by giving attention and then take him outside to pee (or outside to pee and then attention).

 

[Cypress' Mom]

Yup! Cyper is a pee er and he is 5 1/2. We have to completely ignore him when we come home and let him right out to pee. We don't touch, look at him and the only thing we say is Cyper outside. He goes and then comes back in and is usually ok. When we have company we make sure they don't pet him, talk to him, or look at him til he sniffs them out and settles in. And I always keep carpet cleaner on hand. Good Luck!

 

[magoo's_mama]

We've tried ignoring him completley, but even when we ignore him for five minutes he will be totally calm and then when we go to pet him he will pee. I guess we need to try to ignore him for even longer.
With my husband he works so much, so Magoo doesn't get to spend hardly anytime with him on the weekdays, so he just gets so dang excited when dad comes home. It's like xmas morning everytime the car pulls into the driveway. He absolutley adores his dad. =)