Our 11-month GS female pees from excitement when a new person greets her. Are there any helpful hints for this situation?

Hi,

I am a huge fan! Thank you for your advice and products. We have an 11 month old GS female and she is spectacular. Several of your DVDs have been amazingly helpful to us. Our GS is brilliant, sweet, trained, and a pleasure. Since she was a puppy, she pees from excitement when a new person greets her. She also does this when I come home from a business trip and she hasn't seen me in a few days. Several have told me that this is submissive urination and will hopefully go away within a few years. We instruct guests to ignore her and not pet her, but she still does it when she gets next to them. We've tried putting her in her crate and then letting her out later - but she still does it even after being in the crate for a while. She has learned to "go to her place" and remain there until released (the landing of our stairs), but when she eventually is released, she urinates when she approaches them. It only occurs on a new person or someone she hasn't seen in a while.

As you can imagine, it is something we would love to stop. Do you have any helpful hints? In the German Shepherds that you have experienced who have done this, when does it stop?

Jonathan