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Please help!! My ten year lap/shephard mix starting urinating in the same room in my new house when I leave the house. He has done this a couple of times before when I have left him at sitters' houses, but not on a consistent basis. He is doing every one or two days.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: randy allen
Urinary infection?
Yes, that would be my immediate response, to drop off a "clean-catch" first-pee-of-the-day at the vet's asap.
If you don't know "clean catch," just post back.
Please don't correct the dog.
Oh, and there are other things, too, with new residences.... with stress, confusion over which is inside the "den" and which is not, marking new places, etc.
But this can be addressed, regardless. I'd start with ruling out a UTI.
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I didn't think about a UTI. I have just been assuming it is related to the new move because it started the first day I went to work when we were moved in. I am getting to my wist's end!! I tried blocking off the room where he keeps urinating and he just urinated in another room which I don't really use that much. Right now I trying gating him my bedroom while I am out of the house. He is hit or miss with it and knocking the gate down. ANY SUGGESTIONS??
Thanks so much.
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Did you drop off a urine spec?
Do you have a crate? Do you have an ex-pen?
Is he doing this at all when you are at home?
Are you going to be home for the weekend? If so, I/we can guide you through getting this habit interrupted. You've let it go for a long time (two weeks +) without dealing with it, and all that does is reinforce it. Gotta address it. Gotta find out if it's actually urinating or marking, too, which is why you need that UTI ruled out.
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Hi
Thanks for the reply. No I didn't drop off a urine spec, I just actually got back on here. For some reason I wasn't getting email updates of reply postings.
He only did it once when my roommate was asleep upstairs. Otherwise it is when we are both out of the house. In the beginning it was weekdays and weekends when we weren't home. But now it is once or twice a week during a workday. How do I get a 'clean sample'?
What makes you think its UTI?
No I don't have a crate, haven't used one since he was a puppy.
I just moved into this house in end of September. My landlord did have a dog here before us. He has been urinating in the dinning room, same area. Only urinated upstairs in an empty bedroom when I blocked off the dinning room.
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What makes you think its UTI?
I don't, particularly. But I would want to rule it out, as usual when there is a sudden change in frequency or in a step backward in potty training. It's not clear whether this is urinating indoors (unable to hold it) or marking (new house).
No I don't have a crate, haven't used one since he was a puppy.
Do you have an ex-pen?
Do you have the weekend off? A weekend tethered to the dog is going to tell you a lot as well as allow you to interrupt this habit.
How do I get a 'clean sample'?
A clean catch is a sample collected after the stream has started (so the stream can wash away bacteria around the urethra).
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Hi Connie,
Thanks for the reply. I will try to do the UTI test within a day or two.
I have been pretty much around the last two weekends. Even with me running to the gym or out for a couple of hours, he hasn't urinated in the house.
Maybe it is the fact that I am home for longer periods on the weekend and he doesn't have to hold it. Or its that he knows on Saturday and Sundays I am home and he gets a longer walk on both days.
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Spending a weekend tethered to him might eliminate the need for the info you'd get from a urinalysis.
How often is he doing this? Still every day or two?
Is the dining room unused (I know you said the empty bedroom is the other room)? Does that mean that he does this only in rooms that you do not use?
This opens up another possibility: gating or closing the doors on these unused rooms. Aside from the previous dog having done it in one of the rooms, if the rooms are unused, I guess that there might be confusion between what is and is not part of the "den" (living space).
eta
I think we've seen other posts about this same situation in a new home. I'm hoping those folks will see this and chime in.
Edited by Connie Sutherland (11/19/2009 09:04 PM)
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