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Little Dexter has come to stay with us for a week, while his owners go away on holiday. He usually stays with my grandmother, but he's in a bad way and the stress of it isn't good for her, so I stepped in and said I'd have him.

Anyway he's currently locked in the utility behind a baby gate - we're in the kitchen behind that baby gate - he isn't house trained plus he's entire, so obviously he and Lil couldn't be together anyway, so he's shut where my dogs stay when we don't want them in the house.

He is yowling, barking and creating havoc in there, I know this stage happens with little puppies, but he's got to be the best part of 15 years old!!!! He can't come out as its not fair on us to have to clean up after him because he cocks his leg and he bleeds frequently - at least in the utility its a wipe clean floor.

Ok so should I ignore him, I feel a bit bad but he's definitely old enough to be able to deal with being left "alone". Should I set the boundary now? After all I have to go to work and he can't be screaming the place down like that indefinitely.

We've been for a jaunt around the garden - he's almost exhasuted. Tell me he'll go to sleeeeeeeeeep:(
 
Why is he in a bad way? Does'nt sound good if he's bleeding. :(
Is your bitch in season? Maybe he just wants some.
I would try closing the door, and putting a radio on in there, see if that helps for a short time, and give him a chewy bone or something to distract him.
 
He's got something wrong with his prostate (strate?) which means he bleeds from his penis apparently. Well thats what I've picked up - either way he's under the vet for it - but waking up to blood all over the carpet was totally unacceptable for my 80yo nan so I stepped in to take him.
I wish I hadn't now. He spent 3 straight hours howling and barking out there. Once he was quiet I took him out over the fields til he looked pooped and have now brought him back in, given him some treats and he's still howling at the baby gate ignoring everything else. I've got to keep on ignoring him but it's hard work when you are trying to do things in the kitchen and he's screaming to come in - the first thing he does when he comes in, urinates over every corner. And is oblivious to a telling off (he's deaf) and also a rattle up the jacksee with a newspaper...

Oh and to add he can't have anything other than his food otherwise he vomits everywhere :( I seriously hope he doesn't keep this up all night otherwise I'll be putting him out the stables!
 
Its a shame he was not neutered when younger would have saved all this hastle and those health issues. I have boarded a few entires recently and they where a nightmare. I think because folk thing their entire dogs are perfect in their home and "clean" they are in others:rolleyes: very wrong on most counts, they obs scent all over as its new territory and they pester dogs like mad:rolleyes: something I wont have at all.
Luckily I have a doggy room to chuck them in, radio on no neighbours to that side, so cannot hear noise. I then walk the legs of them to keep them in a energyless state.:D
This may sound odd but is he used to the car? do you have a crate? The reason I say this is because I boarded an old senile dog once and it would not settle, the owner advised me to put it in car ( my doggy van) and sure enough it slept like a baby, she said he loves the car. So he spent more time walking and sleeping in my van, I drive it most of the day so he got to drive about a bit:D
Its alot harder to settle the older senile ones, esp if the routine is totally different, could you find out where he is used to sleeping at home? obs you may not beable to place him there in yours but it may give you a few more ideas.
I told the recent boarders that they where not welcome back "entire" so they have all had the chop:D
Or maybe put the bitch in the room to save her being mollested and put a nappy on him so he cannot cock his leg anywhere:D
 
He's an aged, sick dog in unfamiliar surroundings being isolated (in his eyes) from the rest of the household (he can't rationalise why) just out of reach.
The stable might be better for him as there will be less sensory stimulus to get him worked up and it will be darker. If you have a crate I would put that in a quiet corner and throw a sheet over it so it is nice and dark and safe.
 
Reading your post has made me angry , not at you but at the owners. As CC says this is an old, sick and probably senile dog, surely his owners could have missed their holiday, or at least paid for dog sitters in the home so the dog is infamilar surroundings. My kids and I haven't been away as a family (even overnight) for the past couple of years because I was not prepared to leave Buffy as she was so dependent on me as her sight and health failed, I would have worried about her all the time if I had gone.
The crate idea might work to give him a bit of security, hope he settles down and isn't miserable all week.
 
I do have a crate, however he isn't crate trained, is now the time to try and get him into it?

I've just taken him for another lovely walk - he could barely stand up coming back. But with true terrier tenacity he's now screaming the place down and biting the bars of the baby gate. Roly and Lil are terrified, Bruce has been sent to my OH's mums.

I think he is senile TBH as we all sat out in the garden for breakfast with him and within 5 mins he was crying and yowling - and we were all there, dogs and humans.

Believe me I agree, they should have not gone away or paid for someone to be with him at home - this is what I will suggest when they come home. I was angry about it before but now I'm livid - the dog is really unhappy but I just can't have him in the house. Now both of us feel like crap and all for a holiday!

I am doing what I can do, walking him, feeding him in routine but the only thing I cannot do is have him in the home 24/7 which may or may not be what he needs.

I will try popping the radio on in there for him. I really hope he settles down and I'll try to keep sight of why Im doing this - to help my nan..

ETA he does seem to like car journeys, the last time he was at my nans we took him in the car to the vets and he seemed to like that. I can only try and see if it works.
 
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I think he is senile TBH as we all sat out in the garden for breakfast with him and within 5 mins he was crying and yowling - and we were all there, dogs and humans.
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Or perhaps confused, unsettled and generally unhappy???
 
Well unfortunately he can't be where he feels secure and happy because his owners have gone on holiday.

I've just taken him out for a spin in the car, he's bled and peed all over the back of my car lol so things are looking up :) he did settle down in the car though but is now back to standard practise in the utility room. Sigh.
 
Are the owners on holiday in this country, if so I would phone them and tell them to come home now. If not, I would take him to their vet and explain the problem, they might be able to give him some sedatives or something to ease his distress and also check his condition hasn't deteriorated. Poor dog, I feel so angry that someone can just dump an old sick dog because they want a holiday.
 
Do they live near you kitty? any chance you could take him home and deal with him from there? may be better for him to be in a house he knows alone than with you 24/7 at yours??
 
Hmm no keys have been left - am I abnormal in someone always having a spare key to the house?!! Oh well he's been quiet now for an hour. And we'll go for a walk to tire him out again in half hour :)
 
Is he on any medication. If he is passing that amount of blood and feels forced to wee that much, he will be very sore, he is maybe yowling because he is in pain. I'd expect him to be on a very strong antibiotic like Noroclav.
 
Lets hope a pipe in their house does not split and someone has to break the door down to get in then!!

I can not see how being in a house he knows alone would be any worse than most kennels..... obviously he would not have been alone 24/7.

Does sound like the poor lad is in pain .......
 
There have been no meds left with him.

Well no I agree - best case scenario is the next time they go away they will pay for a house/pet sitter for him because its clearly not suiting him staying at someone elses house which is quite understandable I guess when you're about 105!
 
Agreed. Since we found him bleeding the first time at my nans and rushed him into the vets - his owners are quite unfazed by this... but he's done it again over my nan's they woke up on a sunday morning to find he'd bled all over the breakfast room carpet.

The thought of my nan and grandad (80 and 85) scrubbing the carpet was enough to make me step in but now being here has its own set of problems for the old lad.

I think its just time for his owners to step up to the mark and do the right thing for him - the family has tried and failed for him and I think the buck stops with them ultimately.
 
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