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Your problem with Athena may be solved with a concerted and sustained effort to socialise her as much as possible away from home - and i mean with people and in particular kids. Kids can more excite a dog than adults (re exciteability) while 'authoritarian' adults can be overwhelming (re shyness). Take her shopping, take her to public places and public events, take her to schools (if you can pull it off), take her to experience people where if she does pee, it won't matter so much as it it outdoors. Get strangers to make a fuss of her. I'm sure this kind of exposure over a relatively short spanse of time will make her less likely to 'pee in her pants ' when confronting people inside her home.
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