Hello I lost my borderline collie (Of 12 yrs) about a year ago and was just used to having an older dog. Now I have a 5 month old GSD and everything is going well with house training. But I have a problem with the pup getting over excited when people come in the house. She automaticly pees guessing with over excitement. Im not sure if this is something she will grow out of or if there is something I can do. Its been awhile since Ive had a puppy and I dont remember having this problem with my other dog. Ive herd somebody saying of a treat made of something that can help build her urinary mussles or something to that effect. What can I do if anything or should she just grow out of it?

I've been told that peeing like that is a sign of submission. We had a dog like that and we never did cure it of the issue. We ended up only letting it meet new people OUTSIDE.

I'm sure that there is good info on this site and in this forum though!

The best thing that worked for me is to have people ignore the dog at first until she calms down. No eye contact, no petting and not talking.
Bending over to say "Hi" is a sign of dominance from us for a submissive dog, therefore they may urinate, rollover and expose their belly, cower or try and hide behind you ect....
Also, you petting, soothing or "calming" the dog is reinforcing the submissive behavior IMO. The dog is in a submissive, possibly "fearful" state and you do not want to reinforce that.
Once the dog calms down on her own, then try and have the people approach and (without bending over the top of the dog) give the dog a little bit of attention at a time and see how that goes.
I would keep the dog on lead while training this so that you can keep her from jumping on people and be in control of the dog.
Some pups grow out of it, some pups do not. Most of the pups/dogs I have seen have come out of it.

Good luck! and keep us posted. Here are a few links to some of Ed's articles and e-books. These are good.
http://leerburg.com/qahouse.htm
http://leerburg.com/ebooks/puppygroundwork.pdf
http://leerburg.com/pdf/whocanpetmypuppy.pdf

Hi John,
My dog is going through the same thing, he is 9 months old now and just when I think he's grown out of it...he pees again.
Now I'm fairly confident in saying my dog will never grow out of it, I hope yours does.
My pup gets he gets overly excited when people come over and all they have to do is look at him funny and he pees!
My partial solution for this is as soon as our doorbell rings, we snap on his leash. We give him no room to run over to the new-comer and sniff them, b/c chances are no matter how much you tell the people to 'ignore him,' they won't.
I also put him in a sit-stay. That really works. Some great advice I got on this forum was to have somebody you know over for supper and for a good 1/2 hour, have them ring the doorbell, knock, make a big fuss when they come in. It's about redirecting your pup's attention to you and not what's going on or who's coming in. My pup Maverick is A LOT better now that we've worked with him, I do wish I would have started working with him at an earlier age, so don't delay.
And if all else fails, let people greet him on hard flooring!
Hope this was helpful! And good luck.

Thank you very much for you help.