new dog urinates in house to take attention away from other dog

[mccross]

We are in the midst of scaling back the super attention we gave our foster dog in part because she needs to get used to not being a princess all the time and now that we've potty trained her & helped her through a lot of her socialization issues, we want to establish our trust of her. Unfortunately, she frequently urinates either in my husband's or my space OR in front of us whenever we give our other dog attention. When we catch her, she scold her loudly because it startles her and then put her outside. After no more than five minutes, we bring her back in OR go out to be with her as we don't want to have her think that being outside is a bad thing.

We have started kenneling her for part of the day while we're home just so we can get things done and so we can give our other dog the attention that she needs.

I'd love any advice you can give because she truly needs to stop attention peeing.. which is probably the "separation anxiety" some of her former owners cited for her surrender.

[melody]

My recommendation is that try as much as possible to avoid giving sole attention to the other dog. Instead, try dealing with them as a group so they won't feel that anyone is being treated specially, like when giving food or toys. Bond her with the other dog and at the same time reinforce your being boss to her. You can also deal with the separation anxiety by providing a special place for her, her own space, where she can be at very comfortably, like playing and eating, so she will tend to give you more time for yourself and enjoy herself at the same time.