Urinary incontinence in young bitch?

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littlemisslauren

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Background info for those that dont know me! My mum has a young ridgie bitch (Molly), she will be 2 very soon and was spayed at aprox 18 months.

This afternoon I was up there with b, when we enforced 'quiet' time on the monsters I noticed Molly was leaking a steady drip of wee while she was having a snooze :(

She also has a new sore on her belly, the girls play rough but this looks more like a skin irritation rather than a war wound. Could be related?

She is off to the vets tomorrow, but I have little faith in this practice!

Any experiences / ideas?

Molly is eating, drinking, weeing and pooping completely as normal. My mum hasnt noticed the leaking but had said that molly have been licking herself alot - so this could have been going on a while but molly has just kept herself clean?

My poor mum is beside herself and she can't see a vet untill tea time tomorrow, Molly is her baby!

Can we have some vibes for the big ginger doofus (I love her really!) and for my poor OH who will have to deal with her along with my hysterical mother for the vets trip:cool:
 
one of mine does something similar- he cant control his bladder when hes asleep. nothing we can do about it, just keep plastic under all the doggy bed covers. he only has small accidents occasionaly:rolleyes:
hope your girls okay, i know this is relatively common in older bitches and they an take eostrogen tablets.
 
Try to take a urine sample with you if you can - bit tricky with bitches but try sliding a flat tray under once she's mid flow. Will save you time with the vet and eliminate or confirm an infection straight away. :)

My boydog leaks wee occasionally, spent £800 of insurance money on scans with contrast dye, x-rays, experimental use of propalin (usually only used in bitches to control incontinence) and never really got to the bottom of it, having kept a diary for months there is no pattern or trigger that we can see.

He is a bit of an obsessive drinker (will stand at the water bowl and lap and lap until you tell him to quit, after several really dilute wee specimens the vet told us to go ahead and limit his water intake) and a neurotic dog to begin with, it's just something he does, most usually while sleeping. Every surface in our house is covered in washable blankets anyway for the hair, luckily. :o
 
It could be a urinary infection or she could be one of the unlucky percentage of bitches who become incontinent after castration. We have this problem with ours. It is quite well controlled by medication, your vet should be able to diagnose and help.
 
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