Senior dog peeing too often?

[MiddleOfThePack]

Our 13 year old terrier seems to be weeing every 10 minutes between 9pm & bedtime and also wees quite often in the house with no real warning.

Is 13 too young for incontinence? He's had every test in the book recently & nothing physically wrong with him.

Has your vet asked you if he's showing any other signs of dementia?

Is his tummy very round?

I took my elderly dog to the vet about peeing in the house thinking it was a UTI, but it was a symptom of Cushings disease.

Did the vet check for diabetes

Uti? I foundthat giving my dog a cranberry extract tablet every day in her food staved off any urinary issues in old age.

Had all the tests in the book & all come back negative. Not only is he still weeing lots, but our 10 mth old pup is now peeing and marking everywhere too. DH took DS out, leaving dogs in utility room for 5 mins before I came in from work. I go in to find floor and toy box covered in piss.

Thoroughly fed up. If I can't catch them 'at it' to correct it, wtf do I do?

Could the elderly terrier be scent marking in response to the new pup doing the same now that s/he has reached sexual maturity?

Alternatively, dementia could be at play. My elderly terrier, who died last year, weed in the house quite a lot towards the end. The vet did tests to rule out diabetes and variuos other things, and suggested that it could be a result of confusion.

@MiddleOfThePack

Had all the tests in the book & all come back negative. Not only is he still weeing lots, but our 10 mth old pup is now peeing and marking everywhere too. DH took DS out, leaving dogs in utility room for 5 mins before I came in from work. I go in to find floor and toy box covered in piss.

Thoroughly fed up. If I can't catch them 'at it' to correct it, wtf do I do?

How are you correcting it? If it's stress related, telling him off could make it worse.

How long has he been urinating more often? Did anything happen/change just before it started?

Does he still get one-on-one time away from your 10 month old dog?

I would go back to basics: keep him on a lead and take him outside if you see signs that he's about to urinate. Reward him if he goes outside but ignore any accidents.

Did the check for diabetes and Cushings?

Diabetes & cushings -ve.

Suspect dementia in the old guy & teenage scent marking in puppy? What a combo! I never scold them when I find a wee. It's the utter frustration of never being able to see them 'doing it' - if I saw them in the act I'd say 'no' & then take them outside straight away.

Old guy paces around restlessly when he wants to go so he only pees indoors if we miss him doing that.

Puppy has been 100% until the last few days.

Only change is that I'm going into the office now a couple of days a week, but DH wfh all the time so he's around. That said, puppy is a proper Mummy's boy, so is it stress when I'm not here? I'm 'primary carer' (by choice).

We lost our ddog just before Christmas. He was a 13 year old cocker spaniel and he was incontinent due to cognitive impairment in his last year of life. We tried nappies and pads but he just couldn't manage it and eventually became doubly incontinent so we made the very difficult decision to pts. He also had liver and kidney disease and was deaf so his quality of life was decreasing quickly.

And just to note our ddog also did the pacing thing - we would let him out and he would come back in and pee/poo. Poor old chap.

Arsewangry - so sorry for your loss. I hope this isn't too much of an old age thing, but he is partially blind (cataracts) & a bit deaf too.

Puppy must have cocked his leg right behind me this morning when I fed the parrot (quite a menagerie) - he does follow me everywhere but I didn't see him pee & only found it later when I went through to the living room for something.

DH took both dogs out for a long walk and I swear they have both been sleeping right in front of us since then. DH has just got up to go out and there's a pee! How? Why? When did that happen?

I am honestly crying now as I can't go anywhere in the house without watching my feet. My DS stepped in one earlier too. It's so depressing that I just can't see when he's going to correct him. You can't stop what you don't see.

I can't keep my eyes on him 100% of the time - and don't say yes you can because you're a liar if you think you did and others can too. It's not that simple at all.

Now that I've cleaned up and sprayed with 'urine stop' [haha], he's just asked to go out and done yet another wee outside, so he does know that's where he's meant to go.

I'm inclined to think that he can't help it if he's asking to go out, and our Harvey was the same. He would ask to go out then come back in and pee on the kitchen floor anyway. It's so sad. But if he can't help it, then how can you correct the behaviour. I feel your pain over the puddles, it's excruciating - we managed nearly a year but ultimately felt his quality of life wasn't what it was due to restricting where he could go in the house, so we knew it was time to say goodbye.