Please help me - my dog is going to be sent to doggy heaven early if not.

I really love my dog and she has been around since i was a baby. She is like a sister to me and i love her very much. But my mum says that unless she stops pooing on the carpet then her days are numbered.

I have come to the internet to ask people to help me find a way to stop this from happening. Please!

I presume this dog is getting on then with you say it's been around since you were a baby.  Hope your mum doesn't put it to sleep, just like we can in old age dogs can become incontinent and can't hold themselves as long as they used to.

Can you please give us some more information about your dog? What age is she? What breed? Has she been to the vets? Does she have any long term medical conditions? The more information you can give us will make for better advice :-)

One of our older Italian mastiffs is incontinant (wets herself), the vet gave us some tablets to give to help I know its weeing and not pooing but maybe there is somthing the vets can do. The family have made a vow that the day that the dog is no longer happy with life and she get too sore we will have her pts.

I really hope that she will only be going to doggy heaven because she is suffering and not because the poo on the carpet is an inconvenience.......

I take it the dog has been to the vets, do you know what they have said, is she on any medication at all? Does she have any other problems or is it just poohing in the house?

Hi perrodeagua and yes she is 12.

Hi Tigger2. She is 12 and a cavalier king charles spaniel. She has had a heart murmur for a long time. She has not been to the vet for ages.

Hi triona. My mum wont take her to the vet because she says it could end up costing her a lot of money.

Hi Precious_stone. She is still a very happy doggy. My mum just hates the poo on the carpet.

Hi suejaw. No medication at all. She has problems with her back legs. She can fall over sometimes and cant walk on wooden floors. She cant manage long walks any more either. But she is fine really and very happy.

Hi Flutterby
I have a Cavalier that is 14. Their hearts can get a lot worse very quickly and so it is very likely that your dog will need heart medicine now if she has had a murmur for a while. My dog has been taking it for 7 years already and it helps a lot. The falling over etc could be because the heart isn't working properly so she feels weak. If the dog feels better in all, chances are she may stop pooing indoors -she may not be able to help it. She's probably confused as well. So I'm afraid you really need to try to convince your mum to take the dog for a visit to the vet.

It is not surprising if she is loosing the use of her hindquarters that she is also loosing control of her bowels.

I suggest the least frustrating and dignified option is to keep her to ares that are easily cleaned.

She cannot help it, and showing displeasure or chastising her will only make her unhappy.

If the stool is solid then it is easy to simply pick up with a tissue.

My friends Doberman was like this in her later years and whenever she got up or moved she would 'drop one' and looked very bemused about where it had come from.

Oh thats such a shame, I really feel for you, I think you need to have a heart to heart with your mum and tell her how you feel about this, if she is not suffering in anyway it would be terribly sad to see this old girl put to sleep for messing in the house, I know it is unpleasant but unfortunately it is one of the downsides of dog ownership, and as Brainless mentioned chastising her will only make for a unhappy doggy. If until her later years she was a clean dog in the house, she will probably we aware of the fact that this is not acceptable, but will not be able to help it, and this will probably already causing her an element of distress and embarrassment.

It is so sad when people have dogs and then are not prepared to look after them in the way that they need to be looked after for fear of expense, this should be taken into consideration before getting a dog in the first place, but I fully understand that this is obviously not your fault.

Chin up, hope things work out for you.

Nicki xxx

Your mum has a responsibility under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to

To be protected from pain, injury, suffering and disease

To refuse to take a dog to the vet in case it costs money is breaking the law. Not only that but it's not being a true dog owner

My friends Doberman was like this in her later years and whenever she got up or moved she would 'drop one' and looked very bemused about where it had come from.

I know it's not funny, but that made me chuckle a bit imagining the look on her face! Bless her.

Flutterby - please get your mum to take your dog to the vet - it could potentially be easily sorted.

The tablets our dogs on is not expensive its about £30- £50 for 2 months worth, so £25 a month for our dog is well worth it.

However reading the posts it sounds like the tablets might not work, see a vet.