peeing in house

[rottgirl]

Paradise (4 years old) has started peeing in the house-it is contained to one room. We brought her to the vet with a urine sample and it has normal he did put her on Cephalexin (500mg) 2x's day for 20 days to be sure.

I'm at a told loss as to why she has started this behavior, she is on a regular scheulde and nothing drastic has changed in the house.

I have cleaned the carpet throughly (so I thought). Any sugestions?

Thanks!

Michele

[brunie's mom]

Is the vet really sure that it is not medical? I looked at some of your previous posts...and Paradise is having a soft tissue sarcoma removed tomorrow?

When a dog that has always been clean in the house starts having housetraining problems, I would always look at the medical side of things first. Are you sure that there is not more going on with her health? If they are knocking her out for the surgery, they will be doing a pre-op blood workup...maybe they should do an x-ray of the bladder?

One easy solution, is not to give her access to the area she is peeing in. Close the door, but up a baby gate,etc...till she is no longer interested in using this area as her latrine. What did you use to clean the urine stains?

Gina

[rottgirl]

B5runie's Mom - Gina

Thanks for the response.

Yes Paradise is going in for surgery tomorrow to remove the soft tissue sarcoma so I am going to mention to the doctor the continued accidents and have them x-ray the bladder.

I used Simple Solution carpet cleaner and then Odo-Ban to clean the carpet.

Please keep finger and paws crossed for her surgerytomorrow!!

Michele

[brunie's mom]

Good that you are going to get things checked out. Hopefully all will be well and she will be healthy and happy soon.

Sounds like you used good stuff to clean up the pee-pee, sometimes people think cleaning with any old cleaner...cleans the urine...and then the dog returns to the same spot to mark.

Let us know how the surgery goes, and if they discover anything abnormal.

Gina

[fostermom]

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.