submissive peeing?!

[schelmischekitty]

peanut (chihuahua puppy) has always been super duper submissive towards all people, and decently submissive to dogs.  lately, though, he's started peeing whenever it's time to go potty / outside.  it's really annoying b/c he never does it when it's time to go to bed, etc, it's JUST when it's time to go potty.  he also flips over on his back every time someone approaches him, but it seems to be getting more frequent now that he pees on himself.  it doesn't matter if it's been 5 minutes or 5 hours since he's been outside, he does it every time!  he just looks at you, flips over and covers himself from head to toe in pee.  we don't make a big deal out of going outside, we don't even have any word that we say every time.  he just knows.  any help would be appreciated, i'd really like this to stop!

[Anakalia]

I had a pee-er too.  We had Ramsey, our little Maltese and he'd pee whenever someone came over or whenever someone tried approaching him, it got to the point if we even looked at him he'd pee!  Sadly, nothing we did break him of it.  We had people ignore him, we tried ignoring him, not making a big deal of his peefests but we couldn't get him to stop doing it.  Thank goodness he was tiny and it was always small puddles so it was easy clean up, although very annoying and frustrating.  Hopefully someone else has better suggestions, but nothing ever worked in our situation.

[schelmischekitty]

that's like with peanut.  it's not a big mess, but it's annoying having to bath him / wipe him down constantly b/c he does it several times a day.  usually we potty every 2 or so hours, and he does it EVERY time.  like i said though, any other time we approach him he's fine and just rolls over   (btw, how come the smileys are messed up?)

[Anakalia]

(btw, how come the smileys are messed up?)

I've been wondering the same thing, but I just thought it was my puter!  Also if I want to delete a word or sentence, I can't click and drag to highlight an area....wierd.

[morph's mom]

Yep same thing here with the smileys and clciking and dragging.  I keep getting the error on page thing on the bottom left corner of every page too.  I think that we need to let Michael know. 

AJ is a submissive pee-er too, to a certain extent.  He used to be really bad about it and if he got excited or you scolded him and then walked back into the room like 5 or 10 mins. later he would flop over and pee.  He also did the whole flopping over and peeing thing if you were putting his leash on.

I cant really tell you what changed to make him slow down on doing it(he still will but very rarely) but we installed a doggy door in our apartment, started going to the dog park all the time and we got Morph, and he got older.  I know that this isnt any help for your situation but I just wanted you to know that it can get better.  For us we think that the doggy door and him getting older were the most contributing factors.  I hope that he the gets over it soon cause I know that it is no fun at all.

[schelmischekitty]

i sure hope this is just a phase then!