Everything was going really well...
Now, all of a sudden, she's started peeing on the floor in the house. Yesterday morning she came inside, ran into my assistant's office - and peed on the floor. Three people were home at the time, and she had just come in from outside, so I have no idea what the problem was. And she's had other similar incidents this week too.. I can't figure it out. The only thing that's been different this week is that she went to the vet for her last shots on Tuesday afternoon, and she has a slight ear infection that we've been giving her drops for. Is she mad that we're putting drops in her ears? We start puppy classes next Tuesday. |
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| She could have a UTI, or it could be puppy vaginitis (which unfortunately they just basically have to outgrow - a UTI requires antibiotics). I'd collect a urine sample (a retired ladle works well) and take her and it back to the vet just to rule those things out.
I really don't see her peeing inside as retaliation for the drops.  They can have sudden regressions, but my first instinct would always be to assume pee-pee problem is medically induced.
And I wouldn't be too surprised. Recent shots probably have her immune system a little out of whack. Kristine |
Oh, and make sure she actually PEES when she's out. Sybil was famous for forgetting this little "detail" 
Kristine |
| Thanks Kristine.. It's been really, really cold here lately (currently -14 without the wind chill!).. do you think it's just too cold for her to go to the washroom outside?
She seems fine when she's out there - she's happy when we go for walks, and when I just let her out, she often lays on the matt outside the door not seeming eager to come back in (which is in the breezeway, and I can see her from my desk while I'm working).. but she doesn't seem to be going into the back yard as much over the last couple days... she usually loves playing in the now. Julie |
snow.. I meant playing in the snow  |
theshaws wrote: Thanks Kristine.. It's been really, really cold here lately (currently -14 without the wind chill!).. do you think it's just too cold for her to go to the washroom outside? Julie
No, I think it's too cold for you to go out there.
Unfortunately, the first thing you might need to do is go out there like in her bad old baby days and stand there till she pees (with great sympathy - if I didn't have foster dogs I had to go outside with, I wouldn't go either!!!) Mine love the cold too. If it was too cold for her, she'd be telling you! But she may be too little to be trusted to pee on her own. In her puppy brain a couple of accidents and outside may have become for lounging (or playing) and then you come in and pee. If that's the case, you'll need to reestablish on which side of the threshhold she empties her bladder. One of my foster dogs was like that and she's 14 mos old...  It happens.
Kristine |
| Too cold for ME?! Nah! lol! (I'm counting the days 'til spring!)
I'd rather have to start all over again, and stand out there with her then find out she has some kind of infection or medical problem.. so lets hope that's all it is... Julie |
| Out of curiosity.. if it WAS too cold out there for her one day - how would she tell me? |
theshaws wrote: Out of curiosity.. if it WAS too cold out there for her one day - how would she tell me?
You remember those garfield's (the cat) with the suction cups...if you find her plastered to the window one day, it's too cold.
If she's scratching on the door, barking at the door, walking slowly and pitifully and hunched against the wind or picking one or several paws up funny. it's too cold. If they have windchill advisories, it's too cold after five minutes even if she tells you it isn't, but not until she pees... She's incredibly cute by the way. Bet she has you half-way to trained already. 
Kristine |
If it was too cold she would let you know by wanting to come inside 
Izzie had several bladder infections when she was little....she just couldn't help peeing inside. You could tell she didn't want to because she would look at you as if to say "please don't be mad" and then squat. Eventually we could just take a urine sample to the vet on our way to work and leave Iz at home...that is how many she got. She was also famous for developing symptoms on Saturdays and Sundays...when only the emergency vet is open 
I would start walking her out and making sure she pees every time now. If she still pees inside it would be time for a trip to the vet. What helped us is that we don't have a fenced in yard and so she can only go out on a leash and we are always there to make sure she takes care of business. She is also really good at peeing on demand. |
| The garfield thing is what she does when I want her to go into her crate!
Either that, or she goes limp so it's hard for me to pick her up and put her there.. even when she's so tired she can't keep her little eyes open.. it's her new game.. sigh.. Thanks, she is very cute, and a total sweetie pie - so yes, it's very hard not to let her train us. Especially since she's my very first dog and I'd love to give her anything she wants! (But I don't - I promise!!)  |
| Do you know what caused Izzie's bladder infections? |
theshaws wrote: Do you know what caused Izzie's bladder infections?
Not really. She just eventually grew out of them. Also as she got older she would still have them, but had enough control not to pee inside. At that point we knew she had one when she would squat 20 times on the walk around the block. Knock on wood, she hasn't had one in almost a year and half...probably since she was about 1 1/2 years old. |
| According to my vet (who was in never-ending "awe" of my endlessly "innovative" pee collection and presentations for a period of time ) bitches who squat low to pee may be more likely to "expose" themselves to bacteria....
Also, and I hope I remember this correctly, if the they don't drink enough or pee frequently enough this may also predispose them to UTIs. When Mad was first paralyzed I had to express her bladder for her. Even after she regained bladder function (and it was pretty quick in her case, at least urinary), she was stll basically what they call a "downer" dog for some time and we just had an awful time in the beginning getting every thing just so. It seemed like she had a UTI more often than not. That's an extreme case, but UTIs are not that unusual in puppy bitches, especially, and if by chance it ever turns out that she has one, it certainly won't be due to anything you (or she) did wrong. Kristine |
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