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Housetraining incontinent dog

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househuntinginthesouth · 02/08/2021 19:38

Several tests, months and vet bills later we're still waiting for a cause and solution to our dogs frequent and urgent need to wee.
During the day the door is left open for her to go out, in the afternoon/evening she has a noisy thing to push to alert us she needs the door open to go out to toilet.
Night time we were using nappies but we've had to stop using those as they make her sore (have tried different brands).
Without the nappies she will (combination of) wet the bed when she is in a deep sleep and wake everyone up barking to be let out in the night.
Have recently started using puppy pads at night which she got the hand of really quickly and well. Only problem is (despite me removing the pads and deep cleaning the area the pads are with urine anti odour stuff every morning) she has started using that area as a toilet, regardless of wether the door is open or not. She won't even ask to go out anymore, she just wees next to the door.
I'm not sure what to try at this point, is it possible to somehow teach her to toilet outdoors during the day and indoors overnight, I feel like that's much too confusing for her (I've been trying to basically retrain her toilet training) or is there another solution, something very simple that I have not thought off that we can do instead?

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househuntinginthesouth · 06/08/2021 08:21

@Karwomannghia she's been given antibiotics but the vet said it may take several treatments to clear, I'm just glad we know what it is now and she will get better . @Lonecatwithkitten has explained it a little better than I understood it previously so I was wrong in saying it could've been cleared up with a simple urine test. I don't think I'd have asked for that anyway as I know they're trying to help find out what's wrong and unfortunately it's just something that was very tricky to find.

@chocolateorangeinhaler she's not spayed yet, but we will be having her spayed once all this is sorted unless vets advice otherwise.

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hellsbells99 · 06/08/2021 08:27

Good luck with the medication. Hopefully it will sort it out. Could you install a dog flap so she can get out when she wants?

Karwomannghia · 06/08/2021 09:14

Yes I was only going from what you said about the urine test, not trying to make trouble!! But also When my dog developed urinary problems they proposed several other tests before cushings to rule them out first even though they suspected it was cushing’s. So I asked them just to test for that first and it was- just felt like there was unnecessary testing going on. I moved to a different vet as well after that.

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