[yorkietalkjilly]

First and foremost, get a vet check to be sure there is no low-grade UTI going on, a tiny cyst in the urethra, etc.

Some of the excited or submissive urination issues are often related to showing respect and fear - some of it related to unhappy housebreaking issues related to the idea he is doing something wrong and/or just lack of confidence. Punishment or unhappiness with his potty habits can unfortunately tie the act of peeing to getting in trouble or unhappy situations and he is always in the state of trying to please/appease/submit in order to keep his pack leader happy with him. Dogs often urinate in submission, especially when a little fear or insecurity exists in the dog. Other dogs urinate out of excitement, almost as they do when very quickly marking trees when excited. Try to take all excitement out of any events when precede excited urination and keep the dog calm by repetitive training him to remain calm and rewarding him when he can. He will learn good impulse control this way. More than likely his alarm-urination is a combination of excited and submissive urination.

Giving a dog a good sense of self confidence by going through a good, basic obedience program will give him self-confidence and a sense of accomplishment, self-respect as he learns, get praise, treats and pleasure from you when he learns things. He learns you are team members and learns to respect your authority and loses any fear and insecurity in time over working with you at learning things. This will help him to not to feel as insecure and lack confidence as he learns and gains pride in himself and this tends to help submissive type urination. Confident dogs rarely submissively urinate and then only when an alpha dog is "requiring" it in some way.

Training the dog to immediately sit will usually keep one from urinating. With other dogs, they won't pee when lying down. Whichever works for your dog, have him do that immediately when the alarm goes off and keep him in a down/stay until you can get him off of the bed and outside. For a time, you might have to have him sleep in an airline carrier on a chair pulled up to your bed as you are training him.

Another thing, desensitize him repeatedly to the alarm going off and take much of the excitement out of it. So it goes like this:

1. Alarm rings.
2. "Sit" or "Lie down" is the first thing out of your mouth.
3. When he does, say "Stay" and lock eyes with him. Get slowly out of bed and take dog with you, praising/treating when he is on the floor. Put him into another sit/stay while you are turning off the alarm and take him outside.
4. Praise/treat lavishly when he goes outside.

Repeat about 5 or 6 times in a row several times a day and keep working on it until he's got this down cold. Alarm is nothing exciting. He'll hear it so much he'll soon get really used to it. And, soon he will learn that the alarm going off is his sign to go into his sit/lie down and stay until you get up and move him to the floor, where he gets a treat and goes into another while you turn off the alarm and gather him up to take outside.

You could alternatively train him to go into an open airline carrier when the alarm goes off and carry him outside in that until he's more confident and can control his morning alarm excitement.

I read your post as if he is sleeping with you when the alarm goes off but if he is down on the floor, the training is the same, you just don't have to worry about getting him off the bed, just off the floor without peeing. Having him sit- or lie/stay will help but just as much will be the training and desensitization what to do when the alarm goes off and working to train him at obedience to give him a strong sense of self-confidence.

Whatever you do, never ever lose patience or yell or mutter angrily when he does pee when/where he shouldn't - it will only serve to reinforce his appeasement/excitement/submissive urination.

These are some things to try if you want, tweaking as necessary for better results, but these have worked for me in rehabbing dogs with similar problems in the past. No doubt you will get other suggestions and should always use the ones that best work for you and your dog.