[sandrag86]

Some of you may know that I recently adopted/rescued Maggie from her owner...I say rescued because I really don't think that she had that great a quality of life before. She is displaying certain behaviors where I believe she has been abused.
I won't get into the certain things right now - but there is one thing that concerns me and was wondering if I could get some insight from my fellow Yorkie friends and experts.
Maggie is definitely a submissive urinater; not only when she gets excited...but even when I go towards her to pick her up or even play with her...it's as if she thinks I am going to hit her or something. She immediately lays flat on the ground, ears flat on her head, cowers, eyes closed and then pees. I instantly back off, say gently that it is okay...she then gets back up...but does the strangest thing that I haven't seen before, she goes to where she piddles and quickly starts licking it up. ???

Does anyone know what that's all about? She never licks her pee up when she intentionally goes for a pee indoors on her pee pad or even if she accidentally pees on the carpet/ceramic floors or outside...it's only if she thinks she did something bad.
After she licks at the spot she bucklaps away from me, tail between her legs to a hiding spot, leaving me utterly perplexed at what just happened.
Poor little mite.

Has anyone heard of anything like this before?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated - and how I can go about approaching this situation would be awesome too.

Thanks.