my border collie puppie is five months old and still wees when excited or scared!!!?

Question

when will he stop this!

Answer 1

The two most common forms of urination at inappropriate times are excitement urination and submissive urination.
Excitement urination most commonly occurs with puppies who, like children, do not have complete control of their bladders. The scene is usually one in which you arrive home after being gone a while and your puppy or young dog twists and turns in happiness to see you, and you respond with animated speech and lots of petting. At the same time, he inadvertently releases a few squirts of urine. It is especially important that you do not get upset over this occurrence. This is an involuntary reaction, and any form of punishment, including scolding, will confuse and bewilder your pup. The best thing to do is to tone down your greetings. Walk in the house saying nothing to your pup. In fact, ignore him altogether. This gives him a chance to calm down. Once he has calmed down, you can then verbally greet him with something like, "Hi, Pup." Wait a few more minutes and then reach down and give him more time to get used to the idea that his friend and companion is home once again. After several sessions of quiet, calm greetings, he will learn to hold it because he will realize that he only gets attention when he does. It should not take much time to correct this problem.

Submissive urination is a natural response by a dog who is trying to tell you that you are the boss and he accepts his submissive role. Dogs who roll over on their backs and urinate when approached are signaling an extreme submissive position. Quite often a dog who has been physically punished—hit, kicked, slapped or verbally reprimanded in an abusive way—will exhibit this behavior. If you just adopted this dog and have not been the abuser but he is submissively urinating, then you must rebuild his trust in humans.
To rebuild trust or re-establish a bond with your dog, do the following. Teach him what it is you want and reward him with praise and a food treat for complying. This will take time. First, as soon as your dog starts to cower or roll over or begins to look like he is submitting, do not approach him. Wait and let him approach you. Then give him lots of praise. If he does cower or roll over and urinate, back off, say nothing, clean it up and try again. The important thing here is for you not to forcibly approach this dog. Let him approach you and reinforce his non-urination behavior by giving him a ton of praise. Eventually, he will learn that you are different from his last carelessgiver, and that you are not going to scold or hit him. Once he figures this out, the submissive urination will disappear, and a bond will be built between you that will be strong and will last forever.

Answer 2

Remember at five months your pup is just that, also dogs are 'pack' animals and weeing is an essential part of that.

It's a submissive gesture/response to a dominant animal, i.e. pack leader or matriarch, or a situation as in a thunder storm etc.

Hopefully when he reaches the end of the puppy stage at about 9 months, although this depends on the individual animal. My late old Border Collie had the odd accident even to just before she died aged 18, though usually when she ran to greet me.

However annoying it appears for their 'owners'.

Answer 3

As we've found out border collies are like kids, we've been told of our vet that he will be a puppy until he is around 5, however with proper training in controlling your dog he should stop soon. We managed to calm ours down (He was especially excited when we came home) by reading about dog physiology. It said that e should ignore him when we come in, as encouraging him to great us makes him feel like we needed his permission to go out in the first place. We then had to ignore him completely when we first arrived- which is really hard but then call him over 10 minutes later. He is so well behaved now when we come home, and is generally much calmer now.

Answer 4

maybe take your pup out to the toilet before he's gonna get excited, like if someone is gonna be visiting that your pup really likes!! I have a four month old border collie and he got a bit too excited in the vets recently - embarrassing but quite funny as well!!!!

Answer 5

A lot of dogs do that. It doesn't seem to matter what age they are.
I have a border collie too. He's about 10 years old and he did it recently when he got scared during a storm.

Answer 6

I have a 5 month old springer collie cross who still does this. Bare in mind he still wont have total control over his blader yet. The peeing when scared is an appeasement thing..and peeing when excited..alot of dogs do this...they forget to hold it! im sure he'll grow out of it. These things take time..and male dogs are harder to toilet train than females...just dont scold the pup when he does it..if you have to..make sure he is outside when he is excitable..or put him outside til he calms down

Answer 7

I have 2 border collie pups and the female pees when ever she sees some one new even pees on the vet it is embarrassing sometimes but from what I gather it is normal!

Answer 8

I can't tell you exactly when he will grow out of this but they do.

One of my pups used to urinate all over the hall carpet when family members or visitors arrived.

We had to either use the back door and greet her outside in the garden or try to ignore her completely if we came in the front way and then scurry out the back to make a fuss out there.

It does stop - believe me!

Read Chetcos answer to help you understand why they do it.

Answer 9

In a few months, my puppy did the same exact thing until he was about 7 months old. Don't worry, she just hasn't learned exactly how to control her bladder yet, but in time, it will come.

Answer 10

Try not looking directly at your puppy when you first come home or into the room. Give it time to calm down. Whatever you do, do not yell at it as that will only make the problem worse.