Our new puppy was as cute as ever, and being our 4th, we were pretty confident in how to begin the ‘training’ process. Eat this not that, potty here/not there, sit, stay, and come. Although our doggy was learning these things, one thing seemed to be problematic. He began urinating when we’d enter the room to let him out of his night time crate, whenever someone would come into the room, and anytime he got excited or surprised! At first we approached this problem with discipline. But our reprimand and redirecting him to go outside did not help. We talked with our vet, who explained that this was appropriately called excitability urination and told us not to treat it as something he could control. She said that this was common and he would ‘most likely’ grow out of it. By our puppy’s first birthday, nothing had changed and we became concerned that it might not stop. Up to this point, I anticipated that it would eventually work itself out, but because there was no sign of it dissipating I had increasingly become more frustrated and doubtful that it would. We’ve never had to deal with this with our other dogs and I couldn’t imagine our puppy having to wear a diaper forever!
So one day I made a change in my thinking. Enough was enough, and my puppy shouldn’t have to experience this any longer. Our other 3 dogs had not experienced this problem and our puppy should not be either! I decided to take my authority in Christ over the condition. Every time I let him outside, or fed him, or put him to bed, I spoke healing over his body. I declared “you are healed; you do not have this excitability issue anymore, in Jesus’ name.” I did this day in and day out-with confidence that what I was speaking was the truth and therefore I expected it. After one week, we noticed he was no longer urinating whenever he got excited or surprised. Praise God!! We already have the authority and the right to use it. The deciding factor is, do we believe it enough to use it?