Hi...I'm new and desperate! I have a rescued Westie (she was a stray that no one claimed) that is approx 3 years old. She is the SWEETEST thing but has quite the potty training issue and also submissive pees all the time. If you try to take her outside to go, she squats and pees right there. I have tried to pick her up so that she cannot squat but now she just pees in the air in my arms!!! I cannot get her out the door to go pee without her peeing first. I was going to go buy a crate for her today and start trying to crate train her (I think she would like it because she likes small spaces) but I don't think that once I got her out of her crate to take her out, she'd make it outside without peeing first.
How do I overcome this bad habit. I know that this can be solved with retraining. I am determined to retrain her because otherwise she is an awesome dog. My husband and kids are getting tired of it though so I need to find a solution soon.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. (I'm not giving up on her. I think I now know why she was abandoned before and I'm not going to do that to her again.)
P.S. We don't have a fenced back yard so when I let her out I have to put her on a lead. She doesn't mind this but I cannot just open the door and let her run outside to "go". I have to stop at the door and put the hook on her collar. This also gives her an opportunity to squat down and pee first!!
Not an easy situation to solve.
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