Jelous male

Hi Lizelle,

I understand it is frustrating to see your dog wetting the floor when you greet her. I don't know why but excitement urination happens a more in female puppies. I think it will happen less and less as your puppy builds her confidence. In order to help her become more confident dog, it will be a good idea to take some obedience training with her. This will also help you to become a confident owner that she can look up to and to establish a trustful relashionship between you and your puppy.

Another thing you might want to do is to make your greetings less exciting as possible. It will be hard for you because your puppy must be really cute and you also are excited to see her especially when coming home after a long day. Your puppy is not urinating intentionally. She just cannot hold it when excited so making her less excited will help her hold the urination. Try to greet her with really low key, without eye contact, no fussing.

I am sorry but I don't have an answer to your question #2.

I hope your Doberman puppy will grow to be a confident dog.

Thanx for advise on no 1.
My small dog - 9 years and also female - sometimes snaps at my puppy and then she also makes a splash of pee.Would it affect her in a wrong way?The older one has always been the "bitch" of the house and every one accepted it but it`s the first time in 15 years that I have my OWN dog and I would really want to raise her to be a good/nice dog.The other 5 I`ve had were all rescue dogs and I never had a problem with one of them.

Answers on no 2.
1.My dads just the food supplier.He won`t hurt them but he`s jusut not the type to cuddle or show love.

2.He started to get worse since my mother took in my brothrs 2 dogs.They live in a flat and neighbours complained about the barking.My dad would sometimes give more attention to them - like a treat or a pat - to them because they are the "disadvantage" ones.

3.We never could do anything because you never catch him red handed doing it.But you can see the guilty look on his face and before you discover it he avoids that place.So; he actually knows he`s doing something wrong.

4.When he goes outside all of them would mark the whole yard.

Maybe we just spoiled them to much because they were the first (by accident - my dads fault) puppies of my moms poodle X at the age of 11 and it`s now to late to do anything about it.

Thank you for your time.

:confused:Help me get this straight

So, your mom's poodle X had puppies at the age of 11 due to a lack of supervision about 9 years ago. Your family kept 4 puppies (1 male and 3 female) and the male is your mom's dog now. You have a female and your brother once took 2 females but they came back to your house due to their barking problem.

You also have a 3 mos old female doberman puppy. So, there are 5 dogs altogether in your household and all the poodle Xs are related except for the doberman puppy.

Am I correct?

If that is the case, I understand how you feel about raising your deberman to be a very nice companion of yours. In fact you admitted that you guys have spoiled your poodle Xs.

I would encourage you to read good books about how to raise puppies. "Perfect Puppy" by Gwen Bailey is a good book to have around you. Those books should tell you how to deal with submission and excitement urination problems as well. Dogs and puppies need to learn how to live nicely with people, you can not just give them love, love, love. They need clear house rules and boundaries from very young age. As I said before, enroll your puppy at an obedience class. She needs to meet other dogs too. Don't assume that she gets enough socialization because you have so many dogs inhouse.

As for the older poodle Xs. You can still train them but it is necessary that you, your mom and dad be committed to each behavior correction and all of you should be firm and consistant. Each behavior should be addressed separately but basic obedience training is always helpful. Good luck

Lizelle,

Do you have any control of the situation in your parents' household? If you make suggestions that require them to change, will they try them? I know I've never been able to get a relative to change! Sometimes, all we can do is make sure someone else's dogs react properly to us.

As for the head collar: did you get it online or in a store? Most stores should be willing to trade it for the correct size.

kjd