Peeing puppy

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Springer pup is just about 17 wks old. He really hasn't got the idea of house training but we are persevereing. We take him out regularly and praise him when he poops or pees, but he's never once asked to go out. If the door is shut he just pees where he is.

Anyway, that's not the big problem, we are working on that one. The big problem is nervouse peeing. If you talk to him, go to pick him up, etc, he pees. All the time, it's driving us nuts. He has never been told off. When he does the nervous pee we ignore it. Sometimes he rolls on his back and then the pee goes all over him 😒

Any tips?

He was bought to be trained as a gun dog for the shoot. He comes from a good line of field trials champions and shoot dogs. But we're worried he just won't be brave enough. (We already have a cocker who is trained for the shoot and have had other dogs before, so we're not inexperienced)

My cocker spaniel when young made the most pathetic gesture with his paw to go out that if you wasn't staring at him intently you would miss it. I attached a training bell to the door and within one day taught him to bash it with his nose when he wanted to go into the garden and we never had an accident since ( although he drives me mad ringing the bell every two mins to go in and out ).

As for the nervous peeing, we didn't quite have that but did have the peeing every time he greeted someone new he would get really excited and pee. It subsided somewhat but even at 8 months old he will still have an occasional excited pee.

Not much help but mine is 2 & still does this. He was a rescue, deemed not stable enough to work.

We find putting him straight outside & saying toilet helps. We don't make a big deal of it & it has lessened over time. It does increase if he goes into kennels or meets new people.

I get the frustration as mine automatically goes onto his back & rolls in it.