[yorkietalkjilly]

Her peeing was submissive urination. One time a female Yorkie I was keeping who hadn't yet met my big son walked into the room where he sat and just flipped over on her back and presented her belly in total submission! It was sooooo funny and thankfully she wasn't a submissive pee-er but she had never seen anything that big before I guess and she just gave up. He bent down and picked her up and they were best friends in a heartbeat.

Best way to handle your impulsive dog is to obedience train her to respond to you and your commands by training her at home 5 mins. a day 2 or 3 times a day to do simple commands, always rewarding her with a luscious, high-value treat and praise when she gets the command right. Keep the training fun, upbeat and don't bark out the commands - just say the word in a happy or firm but never militant voice so she will not think training is a downer. By teaching her to sit, stay, lie down, stop in place, sit up and beg, watch me, leave it and other things, she will learn how to control her impulses and begin to learn that when you give her a command, it pays off to obey you. Before long, she will actually learn to do what you say 99% of the time just because she would never think of not obeying you. You two will bond and become a great working team and she will feel happy, confident and sense how pleased you are with her and will work hard to never make you unhappy.

After 6 weeks of obedience training and she's more under control, you can set her up to succeed when people come in by training her what not to do when people come in. Get a friend to work with you for a while and have them come in the door as a visitor. First, load lots of luscious treats in your treat pouch on your belt and when someone comes in and she begins to jump up on them, tell her "leave it" and she will already know to immediately stop what she's doing and back off from your separate obedience training and she will hear you open the treat pouch and will immediately make the choice between the warm, boiled chicken or jumping on your helper's legs and the negative result of that.

If she chooses wrong, you will both turn around and face away from and totally ignore her - every time she does it. You can say "uh oh" as she jumps up and you both turn your backs on her and she gets no treat. Both of you stand and totally ignore her for two full minutes. Then resume training.

If she chooses correctly and backs off, she gets her treat and your great praise. In time, with repetition of these training sessions, she will learn to make the correct choice most of the time now and eventually, she will learn she's going to be told to "leave it" each time she jumps up and learn to control her impulse to jump.

But pre-training her to "leave it" will teach her to back off whatever she's doing or drop anything she's got in her mouth for the greater reward to come. If you'd like, I can give you separate, step-by-step instructions for teaching "leave it".

Simple obedience training can transform a misbehaving dog over time and totally reshape their behavior.