Not having much luck with mums dog :(

[Jake10]

After countless trips to the vets for various things and having several of her nipples removed we thought finally she was problem free.

At the start of the year she started to wee a little while she slept mum put it down to her being unsettled (3 months of road works outside our house and a massive change in routine) but it progressed to several times a day as well as at night. Again mum claims its behavioural and that she's just a bad dog who's forgotten how to ask to go out (more frequent opportunities to go out and more walks). She completely ignores me suggesting taking the dog to the vets in case it's an infection or something.

Now mums just had two weeks off and has realised that I'm not joking when I say her dog is weeing all over herself and the house 6-8 times a day with access to the garden all day. She was snoozing in the sun in the garden got up and was covered in wee

Finally been to the vets her bloods are clear, her urine samples are clear. She's having a scan to rule out a bladder tumour and if it isn't a tumour the vet thinks it will be hormonal sphincter problem so she'll be on tablets for the rest of her life.

 

[sonjafoers]

Sorry to hear about this, we've had it in one of ours and it's always a worry that they're going to wee themselves so you're always getting up and putting them out.

We had a milder case than yours but got a liquid from the vet (urlin? urilin?) that our dog had twice a day on food which was very effective. The vet said it can be very gradually reduced over time but I reduced ours quite quickly and the problem returned so I didn't try decreasing it again, but apparantly it can be done so that they are weaned off it eventually when the muscle starts to work again.

Obviously if it's a tumour that's a different scenario which I know nothing about but fingers crossed for you it's the sphincter muscle which controls the bladder.

Good luck.

 

[ace33]

How old is the dog? Is she spayed and at what age? It is common for bitches to suffer from spay incontinence and it could be something as simple as that. We have a bitch that suffers with it and it has only just showed up at age 4 (she is a giant breed). She would leak when lying down as yours does and get up covered, if she had forgotten her house training manners she wouldn't be lying in it.

 

[Nettle123]

Our lab bitch has accidents and does not realise it has happened at the time. She is on propalin syrup which really works. We do not need it all the time as it seems to sort the problem but it does come back intermittently and she needs redosing. She is a middle aged spayed girl.

 

[Jake10]

She's 6 almost 7 and was spayed at 4 hoping it is just a spaying related problem and easy to fix. It's not nice for her to be laying in her own wee