Why do dog urinate when excited ?

Well, for most of the dog owner this act may be shameful. For example, there are some guest in your house suddenly your dog goes towards them jumps and also urinates while greeting them. What would you do? Well if its an animal friendly person he will definitely not mind. But what if the guest visiting your house is not an animal person. Will you yell at your dog? Shout? Smack?. Well lets find the answer for this question through this blog.

Firstly, lets know the reason on why dog urinates when excited? Lets consider small kids first. Kids usually when small does not have control over their bladder and pees frequently. Also when we are excited we tend to pee but our mind sends signal to our body that we have to control it. But as a kid we tend to pee in our pants when excited and afraid. Same goes with our dog as well. Dogs not only urinates when excited but also urinates when they are afraid. On top of that if their bladder is full it becomes very difficult for them to control. Its not that they want to dirty the floor or want to intentionally urinate in the house, its simply they cannot control it and while they peeing if you shout or scream it even makes thing more worse.

What is the solution for this ?
As a trainer this things can be taken care off not 100%, but at least 90% of the thing can be taken care off. Firstly when we know there are guest's who are going to visit our place. Prior to that take your dog for good long walk. Once the dog is tired and has urinated outside, there are two major advantage that you will have. First the dog will not get that excited as he is tired. Second even if he excited he will not pee as his bladder is empty. We humans are also a major part of the complete process, wherein we need to make sure when we greet or approach any dog or visa versa. We should be stable. Three rules we should be aware of when approaching any excited dog is that NO TALK, NO TOUCH, NO EYE CONTACT. Even if the dog is hyper or excited just be stable. If even we get excited the dog will definitely tend to pee.

Now lets come to the solution on whether to yell, shout, smack on dog when the dog urinates or to simply follow the steps as mentioned above. Well can we shout at our kid when he tends to pee in his pants? Well, the answer is no. The same way say no to shouting or yelling as this will make the situation more worse. Follow the simple steps and you will never have to shout at your best friend.