Dr. Lera Clone explains why Chewy, an 11-week-old labradoodle, pees when excited. It's behavioral, not a training failure. Have visitors ignore the puppy until calm, let him sniff before petting, or introduce them outside so he can pee on grass first.
Hey, guys. My name is Dr. Lara here at Heron Lakes Animal Hospital. Today I'm here with Chewy. Chewy is an 11 week old labradoodle. And so when I was talking to mom today, I typically ask about what different concerns the owners have. And she said she noticed that. You want to go down, kiddo? Let me put you down. She said that when people are coming over the house, he's peeing all over the place. Place. And so he's typically, what I'm anticipating is he's having what's called excitement urination. And so this is not typically a problem that the dog is poorly trained or that he's got a urinary tract infection or some sort of medical condition. It's just more of a behavioral thing. And so what happens is I was actually telling mom the you're going to have to train the people who come to the house more so than you will have to train Chewy. And it's almost like you're going to treat one of those dogs who's what we call a beer biter. Whenever I have somebody who has a dog who's scared, I tell the owners, whenever somebody's coming to the house, tell them, ignore the dog. Which is the same thing we're going to do with Chewy. Ignore the dog, go sit on the couch, get comfortable. And once the dog becomes calm in his case or comfortable in the fear aggressive dogs, then they will come over, they will approach and you will not go ahead and overwhelm the dog by talking like a dolphin, like, oh my God, you're so cute. No, that doesn't work. Okay, just case you were wondering what that looked like, you go, oh my God, no. So good. So what you're going to do is you're just going to kind of have the people put their hand out and then your dog can go ahead and smell their hand and slowly work up to petting them. It is not necessarily their fault. So something else that you can do, if you know that your dog is an excitement urinator and you have somebody coming over the house, what you can do is you can take that person outside with your dog to meet that person and then that way they can let out all the excitement and all that kind of stuff and at the same time they'll pee on the grass and it won't be an issue. Now you will want to go ahead and try and control that when people come into the house. Okay. The other thing is, of course you can go ahead and put up the dog like in a crate or a room or something like that. Let the people come in again. The dog is still going to probably get super excited when they see somebody new and lead to the same situation. So you. The most important thing is really just to ignore the dog when you first come in and just let the dog kind of calm down and then eventually you can go ahead and approach the dog. These are not the kind of dogs, at least initially, that you will want to go ahead and baby talk and all that kind of stuff because there is a very high likelihood that they will urinate and it's not their fault. You really have to go ahead and train the people because if you do scream at them, there's a possibility that they may urinate and so now you're getting more of what you don't want. Okay, if you guys found this video helpful, please give us a thumbs up. If you have any questions or comments, leave it in the comment box. Otherwise, subscribe and share with somebody that you think might need this. Thanks and have a great day. Bye Bye.
