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Submissive urination · Submissive urination signs & symptoms · Submissive urination diagnosis · Submissive urination treatment · Submissive urination related articles
1. Treatment of dog submissive urination or incontinance include a visit to your veterinarian to eliminate the possibility of a health problem. Health problems that can cause incontinence include anatomical abnormality and bladder infection.
2. If there are no health problems, accept that your dog is urinating because it feels anxious. Establish calm in your household.
3. Calm your pet with Comfort Zone D.A.P. D.A.P. helps the dog feel that it is back with its mother. It feels secure.
4. Plug in the D.A.P. atomizer a half hour before you leave home and leave it on while you’re away.
As your pet becomes less anxious, use the D.A.P. atomizer for shorter and shorter periods.
5. Change greeting and exiting behaviors so these are low-key events. Enter and leave without acknowledging your pet. When your pet sits quietly, greet it. See our Pet Health 101 Separation Anxiety section.
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6. Upon greeting, position yourself kneeling or have the pet stand so your heads are approximately the same level.
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7. Never punish dog submissive urination or incontinence. Punishment increases anxiety and the pet is already overly anxious. Simply clean up without comment.
How can I help my pet feel less anxious?
- Exercise your pet twice a day because exercise promotes a feeling of well-being in pets.
- Reward your pet for everything it does well, but ignore what it does wrong. Rewarding desired actions reinforces them and the pet will repeat them. Ignoring undesirable actions extinguishes them.
- Allow your pet to sit at the same level as you sit; for example, on the sofa or an elevated pet bed.
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The articles here were answered by a variety of pharmacists and veterinarians
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