| Re: peeing in house
Hope her surgery goes well...I absolutely agree with the prior poster. Dogs that are housetrained and then suddenly start having accidents either:
have an medical issue...UTI would be my first guess, incontinence might also be the cause..my five year old girl started having small accidents...checked the urine and it was normal...put her on cephalexin which didn't help so then put her on meds for incontinence with solved the problem. Certainly with her needing surgery, it might be somehow related to that health issue as well (perhaps she's not feeling well??).
Some dogs start having accidents due to stress...so if anything has changed, that might be a cause...rescue dogs frequently have a few accidents before they settle in...my one lab (a mild separation anxiety type) occasionally has accidents when a foster adopts and leaves my home...when I have company over, I occasionally find an accident.
This might now have become a habit...my current foster when he had a UTI had a few accidents where he peed on my bedpost...then, even after the UTI was treated, he kept peeing there....I stopped allowing him in that room unless I was with him for a couple of months and now he's fine.
Again, good luck with the surgery.  |