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weeing again right after going

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StarDustMonkey · 10/01/2015 21:35

hi,

just looking for some advice. We have a labrador bitch who is 10 weeks old. She asks to go out for a poo without fail. During the day she is pretty good with regards to weeing. She asks to go out most times and rarely has accidents. At night she is crated and doesn't wee or poo in there. However when my DH gets home, or me if I've been out, she starts weeing on the floor. She goes to the toilet very frequently, to the points that she will wee right after having already had a wee. literally I will bring her in, give her fuss, sit down and she'll want to go wee again. Why is she doing this? It is so frustrating. surely she shouldn't need to go again right after having gone (this can be in a chain of up to 4 or 5 times...One after the other).

Please help

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tabulahrasa · 10/01/2015 21:51

It's probably excitement urination. They usually grow out of it.

hippoinamudhole · 11/01/2015 00:01

Has it just started? It may be an infection

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StarDustMonkey · 11/01/2015 06:48

Just to clarify. She doesn't wee as soon as she sees DH. It's just that she then stops asking to go out, and will just wee with no warning.

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VeryStressedMum · 11/01/2015 08:28

It could still be excitement even after you've been home for a while.
I would stop giving her fuss after she's come in from a wee and be quite boring when you come home.
My lab did this when she was a pup she'd wee with excitement so we'd be quite quiet and not give her too much to get excited about and she stopped.

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StarDustMonkey · 11/01/2015 09:13

Thank you :) I had no idea it could still be that. We'll try changing how we do things today and see how it goes Smile

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StarDustMonkey · 16/01/2015 13:20

Hmmm it doesn't seem to be excitement weeing after giving it more time Some days she will be great with zero accidents. Other days it's like she is doing it on purpose - not attempt made to even ask to go out. Getting frustrated now!

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tabulahrasa · 16/01/2015 13:25

She is still very young btw, my dog was about 16 weeks before he was reliably housetrained.

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StarDustMonkey · 16/01/2015 16:30

Thank you. It is just frustrating I guess when some days she is on top form and other days she seems to have forgotten everything!

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Panicmode1 · 16/01/2015 19:16

My 11 week old retriever is exactly the same - she's doing it now actually - had a dry day in the house yesterday and then today has had loads of accidents and keeps trying to wee every 5 mins....I spent £350 at the vet at the beginning of the week because she'd swallowed stones and was being sick and (I thought) trying to poo over and over again without any success, but now she's back to trying to wee repeatedly and the vet can't find anything.....finding this whole puppy thing very stressful!

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StarDustMonkey · 17/01/2015 06:27

Ours is doing that panic. She wants to wee some days, like yesterday, every 5 bloody minutes. I go between thinking it's a urine infection, to attention seeking, to no bloody idea!

It's driving me mad when some days she is perfect. She is also still nipping when excited - thought at least not all the time now.

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Panicmode1 · 17/01/2015 07:32

I'm getting frustrated too - I thought retrievers were supposed to be very clever, but the housetraining is very wearing. Last night she was trying to go literally every 10 minutes for 2 hours (I wrote it down in case I had to go back to the vet). This morning she's been out three times in an hour and a half - whereas at the back end of last week she was managing to go only every 2 hours.

And she nips ALL THE TIME! The biting/mouthing/nipping is really hard to deal with - and I'm sure having four children doesn't help - but when they are at school, I try to be fairly boring and quiet and am trying to train her to be gentle, to lick, not snatch the training treats.....but as a novice with no dog experience I'm sure I'm doing it all wrong and really worried that I'm setting up bad habits. (The dog trainer is going to call me later to discuss it....)

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StarDustMonkey · 17/01/2015 08:22

I thought they were meant to be too Panic... Yours sounds so similar to how ours is being (same age as well I think - she is 11 weeks tomorrow).

The weeing is ridiculous, I don't remember any of the dogs my family has had going as often as she does most days. The nipping and chewing everything is crazy. Yet she has no interest in any of the toys bought specifically for her to chew.

She is my first dog (had small dogs growing up), and I feel completely lost. Not sure which way is best to train/teach her, and I'm sure I'm going to end up confusing her and making it worse.

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JenniferGovernment · 17/01/2015 08:28

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Panicmode1 · 17/01/2015 12:10

StarDustMonkey - they sound very similar indeed. In fact I worked out she was only 11 weeks old on Thursday (born on Halloween) so they are almost twins Grin.

Glad to know it's not just mine - am trying so hard to be patient and not get annoyed - but I also have to deal with four messy children too, so it's hard to stay calm and positive all the time!

However, today, she is allowed out for the first time - so that may help to make things a bit easier....

Glad we've got each other to hand hold - she's my first dog ever - we were away at school and my mother isn't keen on animals so we weren't ever allowed a dog - so I feel that I'm learning as I go. The puppy classes will be good I think (we have had one so far) and I am trying to do lots of small training lessons through the day too - I just want her to be housetrained more quickly than she's ready for I guess!

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