Had a few similar threads in past but backstory and update.
She has always been a bit awkward when it comes to toilet habits wanting out often, going through phases of every 4-6 weeks having accidents for a few days then fine, wanting out once during night etc.
Back in November I changed her diet, half wet half dry and also changed her to filtered water, this made her drink far less and what seems a normal amount and she stopped wanting out during the night, around end of January she had a few accidents and kept licking her lady parts and took her to local pet hospital who said she had irritation down there, gave her tablets to soothe it and she seemed a little better, then around mid Feb she began having a fever, blocked up then when she did go it was diarhoea and wanted out during night again and started getting cranky biting her lead being vocal and restless, took her to vets the week later and told me she had a bad fever gave me something to settle her stomach and antibotics, and she was fine for around 2 weeks then she began to get bad again, fever again wanting out during night cranky and restless, pulling the lead and took her back to vets around another week later and was told her fever got worse and was given more antibiotics and again I waited at least 2 weeks (to make sure she had time to recover) she was fine overnight and was so for over a week then started slipping back into having a fever again, one night she wanted out 3 times.
Most recent trip to vets they wanted to do a blood test but she was howling and yelping so couldn't do it and didn't have the space or time to sedate her so gave her a different antibiotic via injection and this was a few days ago.
Her fever seems better and shes calmer than she was so hoping thats the end of it though I think with it being reoccuring and her having a history of going a month or so and then having a health issue blood tests would help find out the root.
Also she began seeing a behaviourist, who said the dog clearly feels safe around me and cannot see any issue and from what I told her it sounds like it's a physical thing and maybe she is wanting out during the night and sometimes more during the day due to discomfort which is making her anxious. (and to be clear my dog hasn't wanted out during night for past few days, it's just a habit when she has a fever)
Outside of that the only issues with her is I need to reteach her recall, she got better for a while but then got worse as I stopped doing the training (still have a bad leg from breaking it just over a year ago) and shes now quite vocal when she either sees a cat outside or one of the neighbours dogs (not in an agressive way) or when she thinks someone is coming to door i.e a car or van parks outside which is quite stressful, and she also is still very vocal if someone knocks/rings the door and only when I open the door and show her she calms down.
She is no longer reactive to cars passing UNLESS shes overexcited or overtired i.e coming back from dogsitter, or she sees a large dog as they make her uncomfortable and for that she really doesn't like German Shepherds she barks like crazy though I am now training her, so if she sees another dog passing that isn't a small dog I let her lie down and say good girl until the other dog passes, this means she won't be reactive and even wags her tail.
She has always been a bit awkward when it comes to toilet habits wanting out often, going through phases of every 4-6 weeks having accidents for a few days then fine, wanting out once during night etc.
Back in November I changed her diet, half wet half dry and also changed her to filtered water, this made her drink far less and what seems a normal amount and she stopped wanting out during the night, around end of January she had a few accidents and kept licking her lady parts and took her to local pet hospital who said she had irritation down there, gave her tablets to soothe it and she seemed a little better, then around mid Feb she began having a fever, blocked up then when she did go it was diarhoea and wanted out during night again and started getting cranky biting her lead being vocal and restless, took her to vets the week later and told me she had a bad fever gave me something to settle her stomach and antibotics, and she was fine for around 2 weeks then she began to get bad again, fever again wanting out during night cranky and restless, pulling the lead and took her back to vets around another week later and was told her fever got worse and was given more antibiotics and again I waited at least 2 weeks (to make sure she had time to recover) she was fine overnight and was so for over a week then started slipping back into having a fever again, one night she wanted out 3 times.
Most recent trip to vets they wanted to do a blood test but she was howling and yelping so couldn't do it and didn't have the space or time to sedate her so gave her a different antibiotic via injection and this was a few days ago.
Her fever seems better and shes calmer than she was so hoping thats the end of it though I think with it being reoccuring and her having a history of going a month or so and then having a health issue blood tests would help find out the root.
Also she began seeing a behaviourist, who said the dog clearly feels safe around me and cannot see any issue and from what I told her it sounds like it's a physical thing and maybe she is wanting out during the night and sometimes more during the day due to discomfort which is making her anxious. (and to be clear my dog hasn't wanted out during night for past few days, it's just a habit when she has a fever)
Outside of that the only issues with her is I need to reteach her recall, she got better for a while but then got worse as I stopped doing the training (still have a bad leg from breaking it just over a year ago) and shes now quite vocal when she either sees a cat outside or one of the neighbours dogs (not in an agressive way) or when she thinks someone is coming to door i.e a car or van parks outside which is quite stressful, and she also is still very vocal if someone knocks/rings the door and only when I open the door and show her she calms down.
She is no longer reactive to cars passing UNLESS shes overexcited or overtired i.e coming back from dogsitter, or she sees a large dog as they make her uncomfortable and for that she really doesn't like German Shepherds she barks like crazy though I am now training her, so if she sees another dog passing that isn't a small dog I let her lie down and say good girl until the other dog passes, this means she won't be reactive and even wags her tail.
