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Luvmyzoocrew

Luvmyzoocrew

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ok so some background information she is a spayed female, she is 12 years old, she has been problem free for the most part occasional things here and there. She has just recently taking to peeing on the beds!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK GOD WE HAVE MATRESS PROTECTOR COVERS ON THE BEDS SO NO BIG DEAL. BUT come on what is going on. She has pee'd on my bed, she has pee'd on my oldest sons bed, and just tonight she pee'd on one of the other kids beds. I think the urine smells wierd, kind of fishy to me. Since she did it the first two times she no longer gets the run of the house , she is not allowed upstairs during the day unless she is locked in the room with us, she spends the day in the kitchen because she is a ninja and i dont ever hear her going upstairs. I dont like not being able to trust her but i dont know what her problem is. She is showing no signs of anything wrong, when she is locked up and being watched she is fine no accidents, peeing fine outside, not having any pain or problem going. So i dont know what is going on? I am on the verge of murdering her (not literarly) i cant trust her and she is locked in the kitchen all day , every day, and i hate it.

any suggestions from anyone?
 
Urinary tract infection? I know that a sudden change in potty habits, especially peeing in an obvious place where you will find it, is a sign of something wrong. It sounds like she's trying to tell you something by peeing on the beds.

--Dawn
 
I would take her to the vet and get some blood work done as well as a urine test. As an older dog, problems could start to come up and it is better to catch them early. A sudden change in behaviour is a sign that something is wrong.


 
I was thinking UTI, but i would think it would be a constant thing as far as bad potty habbits rather then occasionaly?
 
Our 14 year old Rottweiler lost control of her bladder when she was 12. She is incontinent now. When it started out, it was only occasionally. It has grown to be so bad that she needs baths almost every day now because she pees while she's asleep. But I'd defiantely take yours to a vet ASAP! It could be something much worse.
 
I would take her to the vet. It could be incontinence, but if it's only on the beds, assuming she doesn't usually spend all her time on them, it does sound like she's trying to tell you something.
 
I would definitely check on the UTI with the vet... but as a behavioral thing, our GSP Bridget would pee on our son Benn's bed if he had anyone over the house. In her mind, she was marking Benn as hers. We did test her urine and she was OK.

Older dogs can get "forgetful" like people do - if her urine and blood tests come back OK maybe she forgot that her human pack is hers so she had to mark what she thought was hers...?

I worked for a vet clinic years ago and I remember the veterinarian saying older female spayed dogs sometimes get incontinent - a dribble or leak here and there... on an otherwise healthy dog he used a medicine called DES - it was used originally I think in pregnant women to prevent miscarriages but was pulled from the market for human use when birth defects started popping up but in incontinent dogs in the practice, DES was the trick to keeping them dry.

Good luck - keep us posted! I had older dogs who became incontinent and forgetful - my late Lab Sparky (passed at 14 from lymphatic cancer) even fell down the stairs and we had to confine him to one floor.

Denise
 
Once you find out what the problem is, if she is going to continue to have accidents you can get her doggie diapers. Got some great ones online and line them with maxi pads. Works great.

They also make belly bands for male dogs, line them the same way.

 
My co workers 10 year old Aussie started doing this - and after testing, xrays, and ultrasounds...they found out she had a cancerous tumor on the bladder. It was growing, making her not have any control. The vet gave her "4 months to live", so assuming they are correct....she will "go" in December :(.

I hope you can figure out what the problem is :hug:.
 
As everyone else has said, you need to get a vet check to rule out any medical problems, blood and urine tests (dogs in pain when urinating sometimes look for soft surfaces to pee on in the hope it won't hurt as much),however there can be psychological causes for this behavior, once you have ruled out medical causes you can move on to the next step.

A dog urinating on a humans sleeping place isusually a dominant gesture.It can mean anything from feeling a greater need to protect you and your sons (by covering your scent) to telling you she is the boss and doesn't respect your sleeping area. She is trying to tell you something, you just have to work out what!

I have had this problem with my bitch Kinu, she is the dominant dog in our house and she is also very pushy and dominant with people if allowed to get away with it. She started doing it when my mum boyfriend started coming to the house. My neighbours GSD started doing it when he came out of hospital after a leg operation, the dog became very protective.You need to take a look at anything that has changed recently to disrupt the balance that has made her feel insecure in any way. It could be a change to routine, someone new being in the house often, someone in the family being ill, a new dog moving into the house down the road, her feeling her ageetc. I would make sure you have a routine a stick to it, feeding and walking at certain times if you don't already, and do some pack leader work with her just to re-establish yourself (and your kids)as the dominant one and also make sure she is feeling happy and secure. With Kinu we stopped her going upstairs and socialised her with my mums boyfriend, once she had accepted him she was fine and hasn't done it since. Good luck, I hope it's not a medical problem!
 
I had that problem with my older dog(14.5 yrs Husky/Lab) and we feared kindey issues, we ran blood work and the whole ten yards. It turned out it wasn't a UTI, so the vet said with her age and everything it wouldn't have been worth trying to put her through the harsh kidney tests, we just gave her a little salt in her water once or twice a week and she didn't have a problem ever again
 
I really hope it's something like a UTI that can be easily fixed!

When my dog was 13, she began peeing in the house and drinking a lot of water. The vet did some tests and found out that she had Cushing's Disease. We managed it with medication and eventually diapers three years later (when she was 16).

Good luck!

Kathy
 
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