Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
If your dog starts having urinary accidents in the house, what is the first reason that comes to your mind? Dogs don’t pee in the house because they are absentminded, don’t care, or are trying to get back at you for leaving them alone, losing their favorite toy, or not giving more treats. Dogs don’t like soiling their dens, and…
If your puppy keeps having pee accidents and nothing is working, it is time to consider a plumbing problem. Your veterinarian ruled out or treated for urinary tract infection and the problem seems to go far beyond a house training problem—what is going on? In a healthy dog, urine travels from kidneys to the bladder which allows urine storage until…
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when your senior dog starts leaving wet spots on your floors? I bet a chronic UTI is not one of them. Tara was a ten-year-old spayed Golden Retriever. She was as lovely and friendly as a Golden Retriever can get. At her age, Tara did have arthritis, but that didn’t…
What should you make of it when your dog starts having potty accidents? Do urinary incontinence, and urinary tract infections (UTI’s) look the same? What are the general causes of urinary accidents in dogs? Emotional causes aside, the two elemental reasons behind your dog’s urinary accidents are that they either could not hold it any longer didn’t know it was…
Urinary incontinence is the involuntary leaking of urine. The most common cause of urinary leaks in female dogs is spay incontinence. To me, however, the theory isn’t adding up. Cookie’s urinary leaks started when she was about two years old. There seemed to have been little rhyme and reason to them. We’ve gone through several theories and treatments–what we got…