When your bladder interrupts your life by making you pee all the time, it can feel like a special kind of betrayal. Spending all that time on the toilet is frustrating, and it might also raise some red flags about your health. Your water needs are pretty individual , so you might need more or less than others depending on your size, body type, and activity level. With that said, the Mayo Clinic recommends women have around
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If your new housebroken puppy or rescued dog occasionally pees on the floor for no apparent reason, then you might have a dog with a submissive or excitement urination issue. Any inappropriate urination , regardless of where it occurs, could signal an underlying health problem, so it's worth knowing what submissive or excitement urination looks like and when something more serious may be going on with your dog. For older dogs, occasional incontinence is to be expected. For housebroken puppies , it often takes some serious sleuthing to find the root of the problem. Dogs that urinate submissively are trying to appease someone they see as "socially dominant" and to escape being punished. Submissive dogs pee when they're greeted, when someone approaches, and when there's a history of rough treatment or punishment after inappropriate peeing.
Photo via Flickr user digitonin. The relevant case was a minor property dispute about whether a landlord should be able to keep his renter's security deposit over piss stains on his marble bathroom floor. But the fact that the landlord appeared to view his tenant's standing urination as a barbaric habit, and the fact that the judge referred to the now-protected position as a formerly dominant custom was telling.
Some people think men choose to sit down when they pee. But I always knew I was a sit-down pee-er—even when I peed standing up. In retrospect, the signs were obvious: I binged on video games as a kid, which offer few intermissions for relief; I wore sweat-pants, which make it easy to masturbate but difficult to pee; I was uncircumcised; I played youth soccer on a no-cut team. Soon we switched from dial-up to DSL. My pee holds went from manual to automatic.