Just wanted to post a thought here on past experience. My 4 year old Vizsla that had been spayed was having an incontinent problem. Supposedly she had ben checked for urinary tract infection and came up negative. She was then put on an antihistmine which did not check the condition. So then she was prescribed estrogen, as he said, sometimes(?) it is a hormone imbalance. A week later I noticed she was becoming lethargic and was losing weight. I returned her to her vet and he ran blood tests on her and her red blood cells had dropped 50% from normal. He was baffled and sent her to the Purdue Veterinary School for advanced testing. After three days of bone marrow, ultra sounds, and other procedures they still were unable to find the cause. They sent her home with an antibiotic. Another week later she was now down to 75% loss of blood cells and was refusing to eat. Back to Purdue. They then did more extensive testing and found she had auto-immune hemolytic anemia and suggested that possibly she had a reaction of toxity to the estrogen which kicked the anemia in to her system. She was prescribed a high dosage of prednosone and weekly blood tests, which did reduce the condition over time to a more normal state.
In the remaining 5 1/2 years of her life, she underwent 200 blood tests, pancreatic problems which fortunately did not evolve into diabetic issues. She had bladder infections one after the other and I suspect her being prone to this, that they had originally misdiagnosed a low grade bladder infection for an incontinent problem. I balanced this continuing situation of the bladder by giving her two Cranactins a day. Cranberry filled capsules. She battled a weight problem because of the continual steroids and other physical infiltrations, from the prednosone, and many emergency fears.
Thank God that she was a couageous animal and completely trusting of the human hand, and lived an active, happy and loving life regardless of human error.
The prednosone eventually took it's toll on her kidneys and she died with kidney failure, which I still to this day beleive that with all the blood testing she underwent that that also should have been seen and treated in it's early stages. The whole error of misdiagnosis caused my girl a lot of unnecessary pain and over $25,000.00 to keep her well and active. So, my point is, beware of estrogen prescribed for incontinence in your animal.Looking back I would prefer to endure the inconvenience of the incontinence, if that were the case.