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hi

well you know the way you say something and it comes to bit you on the bum well this is my revenge it was only the other day i was on here telling you how amazing my dog was.

he was 12 in june and he is a Jack Russel cross norfolk terrier and he is lovely but just recently he has changed.

he growls when my hubby kisses me goodbye in the morning
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i have also noticed he seems a little incontinent for example i was hoovering my room and fluffed his bed and noticed it was quite wet
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so not sure what to do.
should i take him to the vet? he is eating and drinking as normal.
any help would be great?
as it stands i am going to make an appointment for the vet tomorrow as i would not class it as an emergency.
this is devastating for me we have had him since he was 5 weeks old i don't want him to get old
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Nicky
 
Considering his age maybe it is caused by his prostate? I've heard the prostate often grow with age and can thereby press on the bladder. Or maybe he has an inflammation of the urinary tract? I've experienced the later causing old dogs to act senile/gaga/do things they usually wouldn't do, once the inflammation was treated, their behaviour changed back to normal again.


I hope your vet can help your dog tomorrow.


About him getting older, I can only offer my sympathy. It isn't easy when you have to realise that you might not have them for much longer. Personally I've had three dogs making it over 12 years of age this far, the latest one last year was only 12 years and two or three months old when she died. We had been to a dog show where she became Best-in-breed veteran but a week later she suddenly didn't quite have her usual energy. So we took her to the vets, she got antibiotics and perked up, two days later in the evening she coughed strangely a few times. We went back to the vets next day, they x-rayed her and found that she had a tumour growing out from her heart that was squeezing around her windpipe and would slowly strangle her. She was euthanized and though I'm very, very glad that she was in such good condition and able to enjoy her life until the day she died, it really felt as if the grief tore my heart out.

All we can do is take as good care of them as possible and keep our fingers crossed that our vets can cure them when things occur for as long as possible.
 
There is very good incontinence meds on the market at the minute.
Contrary to belief it's not just neutered bitches that suffer from incontinence
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it's common in older dogs neutered or not (bit of a useless info add on)
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Also as FLH suggests, don't rule out other conditions, but don't worry till u speak to the vet
 
If you can try to notice what kind of incontinence it is, i.e. a little pool of urine when sitting down/resting, is different from dribbling when moving/exercising and may pin point what kind of problem it is. Prostate is by far more common in male dogs (esp unneutered ones), whereas relaxation leading to leaking is more commong among females (esp spayed ones).

Plenty of medical solutions for all of these problems though, so I am sure your vet will be able to help!!
 
hey
well i took him to the vet this morning and he has been put on antibiotics so fingers crossed this might do the job but he has no temp and i am not sure how confident the vet was with the diagnosis.
 
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