7 month old submissive wetter - need info

I believe they can stop. When you or anyone goes into the house, completely ignore the dog. COMPLETELY. Don't talk to her, look at her or touch her. Let the dog approach you at a later time.

If that doesn't sound right, can you give us more details? When is this happening? How often?

FourIsCompany

When you or anyone goes into the house, completely ignore the dog. COMPLETELY. Don't talk to her, look at her or touch her. Let the dog approach you at a later time.

This is what I read when I searched it on the internet. I thought that maybe there would be more things a person could do.

FourIsCompany

I believe they can stop.

Here I read some may and some may not stop. This has me a bit worried.

FourIsCompany

can you give us more details? When is this happening? How often?

The 7 month old is at a shelter. I`m thinking about adopting her but I wanted any info about submissive wetters to know what I would be getting myself into before committing myself.

There are more things you can do, but those are the first steps to take. Find out when she urinates and then work around it so those occasions don't happen. If you can't get it under control then she can be put on meds (basically downers) to relax her, but that would be the absolute last course of action in my opinion. Can you find out how bad she is? If it's from her previous owners treating her badly (yelling, hitting, etc) there's a really good chance some work could get her over it. She's still young, so with confidence, she may be able to stop.

This is a pretty good article. It would take work and I wouldn't want to let the dog on carpet until I knew her better.

She's 7 months old and in a shelter.  The girl is stressed, anxious and nervous would be my guess.  It will just take time for her to realize she is safe.  Time will build confidence as she settles in her new home.  You'll want to give lots of extra love and send good relaxed energy to the pup so she can work through it. 

I agree with ignoring in the beginning...this will show the dog that there is no harm coming.  Be aloof, but also allow the dog to come to you, not making a big deal about the approach at all.  No verbal reaction (talk and have your focus on someone else), offer a loving pet pet or light affection without eye contact (at first) would be an initial approach.  She will soon learn that she is where she belongs and settle in.  Yoy will likely need to be cognizant of her nervousness for a long while and treat it with TLC.  However, you don't want to coddle, that would just extend her behavior.  She needs confidence building to get over her long term anxieties.

Good luck!

Thanks for the info. I guess now I don`t need it in the really near future thou as I just found out she has been adopted out. She sure found a home fast. It seams like some dogs are in the shelter for weeks and sometime months and others you just blink and they are gone. I put the link in my favorites for the future just in case. Thanks again.

Add - the info on Bella is on a post in general chat.

I know she's been adopted out, but in case some one else searches this thread I wanted to add my experiences with a wetter.

Bella was found under a car about & extremely dehydrated. She was cared for by my friend's neighbor for about two weeks.  thats when I met her, I love her, but she peed - if you talked in a really exciting voice she peed, if you looked at her in any mean or angry way ( not talking) she peed, if you sounded firm in your voice she peed,  basically it seemed like not matter what she peed.  We learned very quickly that we had to be super calm ( which is hard with a puppy, nothing better than seeing them get all excited & flop around), super slow in our actions & really neutral in our actions. she used to pee when we asked her to go outside, the poor dog thought that no matter what she was in trouble! :(

 she has gotten over it, it's taken a long time & you can't yell at her when she does it. but i think in the last 4months she's only peed twice from excitement or fear. So they can overcome it - but you have to change the way you deal with them until they start feeling confident in themselves.