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So, we have a Cavalier named Chicken. She''s 4. She pees. I can not get her to stop. When our other dog Sadie was alive (passed last November), we had a big dog bed they slept on, and we assumed it was Sadie not having control of her bladder, being old. Well, after Sadie was gone, it kept happening.
This is the odd part-if she sleeps in the kitchen, just on the linoleum w/no rug or bed, she doesn''t pee. If she sleeps on anything else, pees. (not always, but most times) After Sadie was gone, we had started letting Chicken sleep w/London at night, not knowing at first about the incontinence. After we figured it out, Chicken was confined to the kitchen-she peed on my couch once too, so she''s basically no longer allowed anywhere but the kitchen.
I''ve let her outside to go the bathroom, let her back in, and if there''s something soft on the floor (once my dish towel had fallen off the side of the sink), she''ll scratch at it to bunch it up and squat on it.
Called the vet last year, and he gave us pills to try. It did seem to help, and we ran out last week so I thought to try her off of them and see what happened. She did ok in London''s room for 2 nights, sleeping in there off and on. Then last night, I let her back in and while I was here on the computer I could hear her scratching at the rag rug on the floor, so I turned around quietly to watch, and sure enough, she went on it.
I''m at my wits end with her. Vet told JD he thinks it''s a behavioral problem. Do you think if we put her back on the pills (Liberace pills we call them..famous pianist..haha well, we think we''re funny anyway) and were super diligent about walking her (which we''ve not been very good about) it would maybe make a difference?
JD was at first thinking it was the breed-but I researched Cavaliers for a full year, bought magazines and books and looked at everything I could find on the internet. *I* think the problem is that she didn''t come from a great breeder. JD wouldn''t let me have MY way, so we went to a different breeder and once I saw the conditions she was living in, I couldn''t leave her there. So, I think it''s bad genes, and not her fault. (And, I exerted my wifely force, and told JD when we''re ready for another Cavalier, we will be going where I want this time, to bypass the bad breeding problems!)
Jeez, this is like a novel.
My problems also extend to-we''re getting a new puppy (will be asking for help on names too) hopefully in the next few weeks, and I don''t want it to learn this bad habit from Chicken. And, I don''t want it to be a case where, the new puppy can sleep with the kids and be on the couch and have free reign over the house, but Chicken is banned from everywhere but the kitchen.
Does anyone have any clue what we could try?
Sorry this is so dang long!
This is the odd part-if she sleeps in the kitchen, just on the linoleum w/no rug or bed, she doesn''t pee. If she sleeps on anything else, pees. (not always, but most times) After Sadie was gone, we had started letting Chicken sleep w/London at night, not knowing at first about the incontinence. After we figured it out, Chicken was confined to the kitchen-she peed on my couch once too, so she''s basically no longer allowed anywhere but the kitchen.
I''ve let her outside to go the bathroom, let her back in, and if there''s something soft on the floor (once my dish towel had fallen off the side of the sink), she''ll scratch at it to bunch it up and squat on it.
Called the vet last year, and he gave us pills to try. It did seem to help, and we ran out last week so I thought to try her off of them and see what happened. She did ok in London''s room for 2 nights, sleeping in there off and on. Then last night, I let her back in and while I was here on the computer I could hear her scratching at the rag rug on the floor, so I turned around quietly to watch, and sure enough, she went on it.
I''m at my wits end with her. Vet told JD he thinks it''s a behavioral problem. Do you think if we put her back on the pills (Liberace pills we call them..famous pianist..haha well, we think we''re funny anyway) and were super diligent about walking her (which we''ve not been very good about) it would maybe make a difference?
JD was at first thinking it was the breed-but I researched Cavaliers for a full year, bought magazines and books and looked at everything I could find on the internet. *I* think the problem is that she didn''t come from a great breeder. JD wouldn''t let me have MY way, so we went to a different breeder and once I saw the conditions she was living in, I couldn''t leave her there. So, I think it''s bad genes, and not her fault. (And, I exerted my wifely force, and told JD when we''re ready for another Cavalier, we will be going where I want this time, to bypass the bad breeding problems!)
Jeez, this is like a novel.
My problems also extend to-we''re getting a new puppy (will be asking for help on names too) hopefully in the next few weeks, and I don''t want it to learn this bad habit from Chicken. And, I don''t want it to be a case where, the new puppy can sleep with the kids and be on the couch and have free reign over the house, but Chicken is banned from everywhere but the kitchen.
Does anyone have any clue what we could try?
Sorry this is so dang long!