The Crystal Maze

[whitleybaywhippets]

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My seven month old puppy Millie, in my view, has been peeing excessivly but the wife thinks I'm just being a bit of a worrier.

Millie seems to often pee 4-5 times an hour and then other times does not for a coUple of hours. She has been very difficult to house train and there are no signs that she is coming into season. It is a while since i've had a bitch and my dog house- trained well. She has had antibiotics so vet says unlikely to be urinary tract infection. I have tried to take a sample but she is reluctant to go when watched.

I got a small sample the other day and the vet tested it and said some signs of crytals in it but she didnt really expalin well what this meant other tha it could mean a special diet, at least 4 a while. She said a larger, fresher sample was needed and took her in for a day but she refused to go and when i picked her up she promptly peed and diarrhoeaed in the back of my car and vomited (she had vomited twice during the dsy apparently). Probably the anxiety but she does not travel well anyway.

The vomiting stopped when i got home and the diarrhoea lasted 24 hours. I put this down to stress and she seems fine now but still peeing.

I am still trying for this fresh sample. What concerns me is that the Vet suggestd taking her in again if this fails and putting her on a drip to make her pee. Don'like the idea of this after how distressed she was before. She is a real daddy's girl.

Anyone got any advice or suggestions?

 

[2whippets]

I found the house training improved rapidly when my (then) pups insisted they should sleep in the bed, since they don't soil their nest it forces them to hang on. I was a bit wary but the pup was very insistent and it worked.

I found my girl a lot harder to house train than my boy, he picked it up in a couple of days (he's the younger dog, so he only had to follow the leader). She took a month to get the basics of it, and then there were still accidents for a month or so after that.

My girl used to have diarrhea a lot and refused to eat when she was a pup, it all sorted itself out. I think you just worry a lot at that age. Sometimes they are marking territory with urine, it depends if you have other pets or neighbours have dogs, there's other uses for urine in dog world. If she's had her shots and she's wormed then I'd just monitor it...the vet is pretty traumatic for pups.

 

[Seraphina]

My seven month old puppy Millie, in my view, has been peeing excessivly but the wife thinks I'm just being a bit of a worrier.
Millie seems to often pee 4-5 times an hour and then other times does not for a coUple of hours.

I got a small sample the other day and the vet tested it and said some signs of crytals in it but she didnt really expalin well what this meant other tha it could mean a special diet, at least 4 a while.

What do you feed? I would certainly try to change her diet totally, it is easy enough to do and even if it does not work at least you know it is not the food.

weeing 4-5 times an hour is certainly excessive. My bitches, just before they come in season, do wee on everything when we go out, but that does not mean that they need to wee. That is a way letting all the boys in the neighborhood know. , not that it does them any good as we drive to the park.

You could try to crate her and see if she can hold on, for at least couple of hours. Urinary tract infections can be difficult to treat and sometimes require several tries with different antibiotics. Longer you leave it, more difficult it can get to treat.

 

[whitleybaywhippets]

I have her on Nature Diet puppy and Burns

 

[Django'sPeeps]

Neela took a while to house-train too. When she was a bit younger she would pee indoors frequently (thank God for Rug Doctors!) and they would be tiny little 10p sized tiddles several times an hour. She then developed a minor vaginal discharge so we took her to the vet and she was treated for a mild urinary tract infection with a course of antibiotics. It did the job well and she went to the toilet normally from then onwards and was able to hold it in easier... no more 10p tiddles every few minutes! My vet told me that these mild infections are quite common in puppies of both sexes. Perhaps that's part of the trouble?