Hello all! My name is Brandi, I just joined this site, and I have Chloe, a 6 month old black and white doll baby. I have had her since she was 8 weeks old. She is a great dog and always keeps me in stitches. The problem is, sometimes when she is approached by me or my Boyfriend, she will sometimes squat and pee. We are not talking a little tinkle, she will just relieve herself. She has never been hit, or smacked, we dont even yell at her. We have had her vet checked and she has a clean bill of health. She is my first Rattie, and I was wondering if it was just a Rat Terrier thing? We were told even though they are a small breed that they were not the "nervous type" of little dog. Just wondering if any one had any advice or experience with this problem?

Thanks!

Brandi and Chloe

Welcome!

I have three ratties.  Apollo and Indie are my boys and Emma is my girl.  From MY PERSONAL experince it sounds like what MB described... an excited or submissive peeing.  Apollo is 17 lbs and Indie is 13 and they have never had this problem.  But my little Emma is a Toy rattie and when she was smaller and her daddy would come home from work, she would be sooooo excited that she'd pee the minute she saw him walk through the door.  ( LOL!!! ) He wouldn't even have to be walking up to her, she would just see him walk through the door!   But as time has passed she has learned to "control" her excitement.  She turned a year old on March 1st and actually hasn't had an "accident"  in a while.  I really can't remember the last time she had one.  So hopefully your little pups excitement/submissive peeing will cease as she gets older.

yep! Id agree too! you might just buy her some little pants to ware for a while...its kind of like little girls going to kindergarten it too will pass!you can get the cuteist little ruffly things ones on line ,its a good idea they don't like to wet there little pants JUst like little girls...

Thanks for all the replies! I'm really glad that I found this site!

Bunny does this too... I can't help but think it is more of a female thing than male as I personally have never had a male do this. 

We can read the signs when she is going to submit during a greating and the best thing I have found to snap her out of it is to great her with a ball.  When I see her squatting I bounce the ball and it diverts her attention immediately into ball mode.  The other thing we try to do when we don't have a ball in hand is to ignore the dogs.  Happy Pee occurs during an excited greeting so if you just come inside, let the dogs out and not great them other than "Hi Dogs" and walk off as if its all cool... No submissive pee. .. Then later when all is calm greetings go normally.

Hope this helps

Hi there and welcome! Wow, I had completely forgotten til I read this that Yaz did this as a pup. As soon as we would walk through the door, w/o even speaking a word to her, she would squat and pee. I had to be REALLY quick to get in the door, grab her, and get her outside. Once she peed outside I'd give LOTS of praise. She actually had more trouble with this than with regular potty training. That was easy with her. But anyway, point being, as everyone else has said, they outgrow it.