deborah
Active member
Hi can someone shed some light on our situation, Cailum is 9 and a number of weeks ago we started to notice drops of blood around the house, it was coming from Cailums penis. We took him immediately to the vet who discovered that there was a stone in his bladder. He was then operated on to remove the stone, and sent home to recover on a prescription diet food. The vet did say to us that this food would flush out any other bits if there was any, and that he would drink a lot more and in turn pee more.
This is were the problem started. 3 weeks into this new diet, we discovered an ''accident'' on the kitchen floor when we came down in the morning. Blaming myself that I hadn’t let him out enough before we went to bed. I cleaned it up. (let me just say that although he did pee on the tiles, the pee then seeped across the floor and into the carpet in the dining area.
What I could not understand was why he didn’t bark to be let out, as he always has done in the past again I thought my fault I just didn’t hear him.
But the thing is, this has now happened 7 times now, and not only at night, during the day when we are here, although he is being let out regularly.
I had blamed it on the diet because of what the vet had said, and we were extra careful letting him out, but it still continued. So I stopped giving him the food, he is off it 4 weeks now, and its still happening.
I am at the end of my tether now, as I have been keeping him in the hall at night just in case it happens again as there is no carpet that the pee will get onto.
I had only started to let him back into the kitchen since last weekend, and here this morning I come down to discover he had peed again.
could it be something else totally unrelated to the bladder stone / prescription diet he was on.
could it be old age, that he can not hold his pee any more, but why has he stopped barking to let us know he needs out.
Please can someone shed some light on this as I really feel I can not continue this way, if it was simply pee on the tiles that a mop up with disinfected would clean, but each time my carpet in wet and stinking of pee, so I have to then take out the carpet cleaner and start washing the carpet. I have 8 week to go to the birth of our first baby, and I can not put up with him peeing like this. I don’t know what to do.
This is were the problem started. 3 weeks into this new diet, we discovered an ''accident'' on the kitchen floor when we came down in the morning. Blaming myself that I hadn’t let him out enough before we went to bed. I cleaned it up. (let me just say that although he did pee on the tiles, the pee then seeped across the floor and into the carpet in the dining area.
What I could not understand was why he didn’t bark to be let out, as he always has done in the past again I thought my fault I just didn’t hear him.
But the thing is, this has now happened 7 times now, and not only at night, during the day when we are here, although he is being let out regularly.
I had blamed it on the diet because of what the vet had said, and we were extra careful letting him out, but it still continued. So I stopped giving him the food, he is off it 4 weeks now, and its still happening.
I am at the end of my tether now, as I have been keeping him in the hall at night just in case it happens again as there is no carpet that the pee will get onto.
I had only started to let him back into the kitchen since last weekend, and here this morning I come down to discover he had peed again.
could it be something else totally unrelated to the bladder stone / prescription diet he was on.
could it be old age, that he can not hold his pee any more, but why has he stopped barking to let us know he needs out.
Please can someone shed some light on this as I really feel I can not continue this way, if it was simply pee on the tiles that a mop up with disinfected would clean, but each time my carpet in wet and stinking of pee, so I have to then take out the carpet cleaner and start washing the carpet. I have 8 week to go to the birth of our first baby, and I can not put up with him peeing like this. I don’t know what to do.