Dog Training - Bulldogology | dog leaking urine when lying downdog leaking urine when lying down
November 05, 1989|By Ann Huntington, D.V.M., Tribune Media Services.
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Dog Leaking Urine When Lying Down or While Sleeping: Causes and ... | dog leaking urine when lying downQ-My daughter`s Shih Tzu is 10 years old. The dog started wetting on the carpeting six months ago, and the botheration is accepting worse. My babe and her bedmate accept been backbreaking the dog constantly, but to no avail. I anticipate she`s rebelling because of a change of abode and additionally because she dislikes actuality abandoned all day; my babe acclimated to appear home at apex to let the dog out every day, but now the dog is abandoned for 9 to 10 hours. Can you explain this behavior of a able-bodied trained, adorable animal?
A-I`m so animated you acquainted the charge to baffle with your daughter`s and son-in-law`s behindhand and adverse analysis of their dog. This pet needs compassionate and care, not connected punishment, which will abandoned accomplish things worse.
First, try to trace what could be causing the dog to aback ``forget``
her abode training. She may accept some array of lower urinary-tract infection, a cystitis. This would account her to accept an added coercion to urinate, and she adeptness not be able to authority it in.
She additionally could accept some systemic disorder-meaning a ambiguous illness- that causes her to aftermath added urine as able-bodied as alcohol more. Diabetes is one possibility. Or she could accept hormonal problems, branch abortion or several added diseases.
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Dog Leaking Urine When Lying Down | Dog | dog leaking urine when lying downIt`s additionally accessible she is starting to display incontinence; that is, her urine may be aperture out involuntarily. If the wet spots are in areas area the dog commonly sleeps, let your veterinarian know, because this botheration is treatable.
If the dog shows no signs of illness, however, she may artlessly not accept adapted to actuality larboard abandoned all day. Here is a dog that was acclimated to accepting out added frequently, and aback she is accepted to go 9 or 10 hours afterwards urinating! She`s never abstruse to abstain her urine that long, and frankly, at this backward date, it adeptness be difficult for her to learn.
To break the problem, aboriginal booty the dog to a vet for a absolute concrete exam, including lab tests to accomplish assertive there is no concrete acumen for her problem. If this can be disqualified out, some behavior modification adeptness help. Rather than consistently backbreaking this poor dog for article she can`t control, I would acclaim that your babe and her bedmate try paper-training her. They should accumulate her bedfast to a distinct allowance back they`re gone, and put affidavit bottomward there. Best dogs apprentice to go on the cardboard actual quickly.
Here`s a accompanying problem.
Q-Our mixed-breed dog is 2 years old. About three months ago she started wetting in the abode while lying down. She would be on the floor, and we`d apprehension that she was lying in her urine.
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dog leaking urine during sleep - Daily Dog Discoveries | dog leaking urine when lying downOur vet said she adeptness accept a float infection, float stones or diabetes or that the botheration could be due to the actuality she was spayed too aboriginal (at 9 months). Tests on a urine sample showed a somewhat aerial protein level, suggesting a accessible infection. A claret analysis adumbrated no
abnormalities.
The vet assigned an antibiotic, but the dog urinated afresh about two weeks afterwards finishing the medication. Any thoughts?
A-Incontinence, as against to accepted urinating in beyond volume, can accept abundant causes. The best accepted one (seen in about 80 percent of cases) is alleged hormone acknowledging incontinence. This is usually acquired by a anemic urinary float sphincter. The sphincter accent can be adequate by administering some anatomy of changeable hormone.
It already was believed that this botheration was conceivably the aftereffect of abortive spaying, but accepted cerebration is that it can action in any changeable dog, behindhand of back the beastly was spayed. This anatomy of bender responds able-bodied to low doses of a changeable hormone; I accept patients that do accomplished on abandoned one baby book every 10 days. This should be the aboriginal affair to analysis out.
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Dog Urinating While Lying Down - Dog Discoveries | dog leaking urine when lying downOther accessible causes accommodate abnormalities in the urinary address amplitude itself or abnormalities in the position of the float in the abdomen. Nerve problems additionally can affect the adeptness of a dog to abstain urine voluntarily.
The best absolute way of free the account is to accept a urinalysis done.
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Dr. Huntington welcomes questions from readers. Although she cannot acknowledgment to them individually, she will acknowledgment those of accepted absorption in this column. Write to Dr. Huntington, c/o The Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60611. If your pet`s botheration is urgent, argue your vet.
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