Dog advice, desperate.. To put to sleep or not?

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Posting on behalf of a family member

We have a dog who is 14 years old, her sister died 3 years ago and she has never been the same, pining for her constantly and quite restless.

She has been urinating on and off in the house for months, she is now doing it several times daily and even does it straight after being outside, she doesn't appear to have any control over it. The vet just says it's old age and nothing can be done.

Overall, she runs about, eats all of her dinner, appears to be healthy. What do I do? Nobody will look after her for me now that she's doing this when I'm at work and I work nights. And my carpets are completely ruined.

I don't see how I can put her to sleep just because of this as she is otherwise well but I don't know how to cope with this.

I've seen photos of an old dog wearing a human baby nappy with a hole cut for his tail.
Not very dignified-looking, but does the job very well.

We used dog nappies. You can get different sizes and they make a massive difference, especially as she’s otherwise well. You can train them to use the pads (we did), but found nappies far more convenient, and accident-free.