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By bear
Date 15.02.09 11:08 UTC
as i said on a previous post i was having problems with my 7 month old TT wetting her bed. She had been in a kennel for the first 5/6 months so i suppose everything was very different living in a house.
Her toilet training has gone really well and she will now wee/poo virtually on command. as long as i take her outside on a regular basis there's no problems. Even the bed wetting had stopped but the last couple of days she has started doing it again and i've had to through out the dog bed as it's too big to keep washing.
Trouble is my boxer and min shnauzer sleeps on this bed too so i need a large comfy place for bed time or when their in the kitchen with me.
Managed to get a load of really big thick blankets and cut them smaller so i can fit them in the washing machine, just hope piling them up will be comfy enough at night for them to sleep.
any ideas on stopping the bed wetting, just can't think what else to do. i clean the bedding and the floor so there's no smells left. i never had this with any of my other dogs. The new pup can go all night without needing the toilet now and always barks if she needs to go out early in the morning so i'm at my wits end...
By RReeve
Date 15.02.09 11:47 UTC
Would it be possible to seperate her at night so she only pees on her own smaller bed?
If she understands to pee and poo on command, perhaps you could make sure she has been just before bed, and then get up halfway through the night to let her out.
It seems odd she is actually wetting her bedding, i have never had a puppy do this, they usually go and wee by the door or under the table if they can't wait, is it because she was kept in dirty conditions before, or does she have a problem with bladder control? Has she been checked out for a urine infection?
I know this is said regularly, but has she had a season yet? I know she is young, but some bitches do have them early. I have a bitch that will pee on my bed when she is due in season ;-) so it could be that she is due to come in soon. Having said that I would still get her vet checked, just to rule out infection.
I have found that bitches do tend to be dirtier than dogs, at least in my household they are :-) My youngest bitch was nearly 9 months before I would say that she was fully housetrained. All her litter mates were clean within a few weeks of going to their new homes :-( Just my luck.... :-D

My pup started wetting his bed when he was about 5 months old, I think it went on for about 6 weeks (vet found no problem with him). He would wee in his sleep and stay sleeping in his wet bed. As he was a large pup it was a huge amount of wee and soaked through all of his bedding :(
His bed was a mixture of an old quilt and blankets, but it was getting a bit much having to wash all of that every day, so I used a matress protector type sheet over his bedding, but under the top blanket so I only had the top blanket & protector to wash, untill he had grew out of the habbit.
By bear
Date 15.02.09 17:28 UTC
Hi,
no she hasn't had a season yet and i've been checking her for any sign but everything looks normal.
Will take her to the vet to check her out but i'm sure she hasn't got an infection as apart from doing a wee on the bed she controls herself really well and we've had no other accidents.
I don't really want to separate her at night from the others as she's never had to sleep on her own before. even when she was in kennels there were four other dogs with her.
I got her from the breeder of the crufts champion 2007 and his kennels/dogs were very well looked after. the breeder did have saw dust on the floor of the inside part of the kennel to help with keeping the kennel easy to clean, so whether that has any baring i don't know.
I'm wondering whether it's more of a marking thing because of my dogs,maybe trying to make her place in the pack, who knows.
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