Urinary blockage...so frustrated
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Comments (7)It sounds to me like you are taking the appropriate first steps in ruling out a urinary problem. Urinary problems aren't always infections, however. There is a condition called overflow incontinence, and it was displayed by a schnauzer we had years ago. He went out to pee frequently, but we weren't watching how much urine he was passing when he did, evidently. I found him on our couch peeing one day and he rarely, if ever, had accidents in the house. His bladder was full to nearly bursting, and he had a stone blockage and the pressure of the urine in his bladder was forcing it out. I doubt this is the case in a dog as young as your's however. I had another little schnauzer/poodle mix who was very good with his house-training and knew he was not to defecate on the floor. He got creative then when he needed to go and nobody was around to let him out. He deposited a pile on the woodwork, carefully balanced.......on top of a floor waxer and in my daughter's ballet slipper. Technically he did not poop on the floor, or at least I suspect this is how his thinking process worked. Peeing on beds, well that's not the same as floors. LOL. Maybe your dog is thinking this too. First off, is he urinating or marking? There is a distinct difference and you can usually tell by the amount passed. Secondly........marking is reduced if a male dog is neutered young enough. Has he been? Thirdly, dogs learn best by positive reinforcement. Not negative. I understand your frustration and desire to punish him, but it's self defeating. Poodles are very intelligent animals and usually pick up on house-training quickly and easily. I think as others have said, you may need to go back to square one and re-train him and do it by the book. Dogs do display behavioral problems too. I'm not qualified to even discuss that, but there is a chance it's intentional if he is. I wish you luck, but if you rule out physical problems, it's solvable with a lot of patience and doing it right....See MoreUrinary infection, round 3
Comments (14)Hi, we had similar problems with one of our dogs. he was adopted and I am not sure if he had problems before. He had one UTI and then we had two weeks of antibiotics then he had another about 2 months after and it cleared up with 2 weeks of antibiotics. The vet checked for bladder stones, as I guess that can cause UTI's. He was ok though. About a month later he had a third one and the vet gave us two courses of two different antibiotics, thinking that the first antibiotic wasn't clearing all the bacteria. We have been UTI free for a couple months now. (crossing fingers!) So I think the vet was correct thinking that the first antibiotic wasn't working very well. Our dogs are always inside so we usually catch the infection within 24 hours. First day, he vomits once or twice. Then he starts to need to go out more and more. By the early morning he is not wanting to go in and stays outside squating and trying to pee. He may vomit more. Then we usually see blood in his urine. It happens VERY fast. Usually he starts getting sick in the evening (of course the vet is closed :( and by the morning he has blood in his urine. We have successfully held off the infection from getting too bad by making him DRINK so he has to pee alot and that helps to clear out the bacteria. I put gravy in his water once and he loved that! He loves to swim so sometimes we put him in the bathtub and let him play. He plays and he swallows water and then has to go bathroom alot. This usually makes him more comfortable over the night while we wait for the vet to open. The vet always gives him an antibiotic shot and another shot of steroid to make him thirsty, then we start the pills that day. You can see a HUGE improvement within an hour after he gets the shots. Usually by the evening he is holding his urine again and by the next day his is almost normal. We give him boiled chicken for that entire day, as it is easier for him to digest and we don't want him to vomit. the vet said some dogs just get the infections and it isn't something you can prevent. Also that stones can cause infections. I was thinking that we needed to let him outside more so he doesn't hold his urine too long, but the vet said that he was sure that wasn't the problem. So, I vote for different antibiotics or maybe two courses of antibiotics. It seems to have done the trick for our boy. I am hoping he is cured of them. they are aweful and i feel so bad when he gets ill. -renee...See Morea bit of thoughtful information on marking VS peeing
Comments (6)Yes Mazer, thank you for posting this. I would like to think I know more than a little bit about this subject, and for me, it's very well put. But for someone with a 4 month old pee and poop factory, not to mention chewing, running all over the house, cooking, kids, running around, etc. etc. it is probably going to be to much to take in. All the person with the peeing, pooping puppy wants is to fix things and have a pleasant experience with their dog. The very bottom line I see in this, is: Relationship with your dog = success. If you don't have a positive relationship AND assert your authority, you have problems in all potty areas. I can't tell you how many people I have encountered who: #1. Don't research the subject before they get started and just dont know what they are getting themselves in to. #2. Think they know how to deal with it, but just don't. #3. Proceed to quickly, expecting way to much from their dog to fast, thereby confusing the dog and making things worse. #4. Are not successful, get frustrated, don't know what to do, and the dog winds up back at a pound or worse. #5. Fail to realize from the very beginning, that the training and work that goes into it, is temporary. All of these are very important things to consider, unfortunately, lots of people don't. Making the potty correction properly also helps with other negative behaviors, instills confidence in the dog (and human) and should eventually lead to the dogs unsupervised freedom, assuming chewing and teething are under control. Potty issues can be difficult to correct. Enter a medical issue such as a UTI, and if it's not recognized, the experience can be absolute hell. Ask me, I should know and I had all of the experience, and a wonderful vet completely on top of the situation. *I spent 6 months getting the job done. (long story, dog was 4 months and traumatized before I came along). The key is to be able to target what is not going well, including medical issues, backing up and starting over, and proceed, making corrections along the way, in a way that is not to much for the dog or human doing the training. Then, building on success. SG...See MoreUrinary infection AGAIN
Comments (14)Yep, PPA is off the market for the stroke risk. If your dog is a breed that experiences problems with strokes, I'd be wary about using it. My old lab use to have spay incontinence and was on a very, very small dose of DES (diethylsilbestrol- synthetic estrogen, known for causing reproductive problems in the human offspring of those who used it a couple decades ago), 1mg once per week would keep everything high and dry. Then a new vet told me that DES wasn't approved for that use and would only get her a much stronger, more expensive form of DES. I got fed up with the whole thing and went looking for a different solution- ended up at this forum in 1998 and was given the name of a homeopathic compound for incontinence (Enuraid). One bottle of 50 cost $5 and we just started giving them to her whenever she leaked. We never even finished off that bottle before she stopped leaking completely. That was the experience of the woman from this forum who gave me the product name too. Personally, I think it's premature to put the dog on a medication for incontinence when she's obviously got some other things going on with her urinary tract. It wouldn't hurt the dog to give her cranberry tablets each morning and they are readily available with the vitamins at Target or Walmart or any health food store. My old girl had a bladder infection not too long ago and I gave them to her by rolling them in margarine she gobbled them up quickly and the bladder infection was gone within 2 days....See Morehomebodymom
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