Hello, we just adopted our first dog, a three year old Golden Retriever. It’s an interesting case because the part of the city that he was found in would imply that he had to of been living indoors with some small amount of house training, but he has none. My only thought is that we was just tied to a chain in the yard for those years until he somehow got away. My point is that he isn’t socialized, house trained , or anything else.
The main thing I’m posting about in here though is whenever he’s overwhelmed, be it fear, anxiety, happiness, excitement or whatever, if it’s enough of any one emotion he starts peeing. And at first we thought we could just be more calm and not react and slowly it would correct but it almost seems like it’s getting worse. It’s to the point that multiple times a day we have to mop because he pees everywhere.
Today my wife got really good news and we just raised our voices at eachother in excitement and our golden retriever peed so much everywhere. One time I looked at him too quickly. One morning my wife turned on her bowl dryer while he was in the bathroom with her. Then sometimes we moan or groan at the sight of the new mess, and he knows we’re upset so he unleashes even more across the house while running away. We have no idea how we would train this out of him
Please help!! And forgive me if I’m posting in the wrong subreddit or not properly following the rules of this one, I’m very new to this platform.
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