I put a post on earlier about my dobes tiddling.  It was when we went away on holiday, while I was packing he came upstairs and piddled on my bed (when I had gone out of the room).  He also piddled and pood on the night we came  home.  Myself and husband went away Friday to Monday, my boys (18 and 15) were at home with their nan staying to look after them and my dobe.  My dobe wet in the kitchen (while my mother-in-law was sitting there reading the paper).  He also done this on Monday evening while we were there, we were sitting in the living room and he went into the kitchen and piddled.  If the door is shut and he wants to go he will always come and tell us, or he whines by the door and rattles the keys.  Also Monday evening and all day Tuesday, he was constantly around me and kept barking at me.  He is 20 months old, occasionally he will wet on the kitchen floor during the night, but I do think he probably whines and I haven't heard him (as generally he will come up into the bedroom to wake me if he wants to go).  What I have done now is to shut the kitchen door at night, as when he was a baby his place to go was in the kitchen on paper, so I think he associates this with his wee place.

Can you get a dogflap?  That way if you don't hear him whining, he can still go out to pee if he needs to.  My dogflaps is a godsend - my kennel job has me working 7 hours a time 3 or 4 nights a week, but with the flap I know my dogs aren't having to hold it!!

Generally when he whines I do hear him, and now that I have shut the kitchen door he will definitely wake me.  The incidents that happened in the kitchen last weekend were while my mother-in-law was actually sitting at the kitchen table reading (while we were away the weekend), the other incident was on the evening we returned, we were in the sitting room and he just went into the kitchen and wet on the floor.  I am sure it probably is the stress he picks up on when we go away.  Dog flap sounds good, but one problem is "mud" - he bolts it down the garden and comes in smothered so I generally wipe his feet when he comes in.  I am not house proud at all (as if you can be with a dog anyway), but the mud he brings in on his feet is quite a bit.

It most  likely to be a reaction to stress which comes with something like a holiday, or a wedding or house move, not matter how much we may be looking forward to it, it is unsettling for us, and even more so for the dog.  Keeping doors shut will help, and try and keep preparations low key....