[Zumie05]

I have never had a dog slower to potty train than Gary! I have successfully potty trained my first two dogs (first dog was 1yr when we got her, 2nd was 4 months) but the difference is that I got them when they were older, so I am wondering that since I got Gary when he was only 8 weeks that I must have done something wrong!

Every day lately Gary will dribble in the house. He doesn't full on just start peeing on the floor, but he lets out drips and sometimes big sprays, but still not like how he empties himself when he goes outside.

So what is happening when he has his accidents? He is in the same room as me so I can keep an eye on him and he just leaks. He doesn't show any signs of needing to go either. I catch him, tell him NO!!! and then take him outside to let him finish. He gets praise for finishing outside, and I am thinking about giving treats again. (We stopped giving him treats for pottying outside at about 16 weeks because we thought he was potty trained by then, but lately he has been bad.) He doesn't seem to care about walking in his pee either. He will walk in it, lay in it, and will even pee right next to his food dishes or on his beds.

I KNOW that he can hold his bladder. Two weeks ago I boarded him for 3 days and they only let him out to potty twice a day and they told me he had no accidents there. At home we let him out 4 - 5 times a day. He never poops in the house either, he only pees.

When no one is home Gary is in his crate. He has never soiled his crate, except for this one random time when I was preparing his kong and he did an excited tinkle...grr! He also sleeps in his crate and has never, even when he was a baby pup, had an accident over night.

Gary does have a problem though; he pees when he is excited. Sometimes I think that may be why he "leaks" all the time, just because he is happy. Someone walks by and doesn't even have to look at him, and maybe he will tinkle. He LOVES stuff that goes on around the house and observes everything, but these things make him too excited. Maybe this is the root of the problem? I don't want to have to confine him all the time though.

Please help me, Gary's family is getting really frusterated and want to help him understand things better!