Incontinence?
Tasker was walking across the room and started to pee, a HUGE stream. He was not squatting or lifting his leg, it was almost as if he didn't realize he had peed. It wasn't just a puddle but a RIVER. I will of course take a urine in on Monday to see if he has a UTI but we have now been home for 5 hours and he hasn't even acted like he needed to go out and hasn't had any accidents. Could he be starting to become incontinent because of age? Somehow I thought he would dribble not flood if it were age incontinence. Tasker has NEVER had an accident in the house . |
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Maybe he just had to go so badly he couldn't hold it any longer?  |
| if he was walking in cold water it might have been that.. |
| Sorry Ginny, didn't notice it was only an hour later. Did he pee at 6 am? |
| YES!!!!!!! that is what freaked me out. I took them for a walk at six, I didn't paticularly notice how MUCH he peed but he did pee and poop!! We went out, walked came back in and I went back to sleep for about 40 minutes, he was laying by the bunk sleeping. It's like he woke up and fogot he had just been out!! |
| It could be the beginning of an age related incontinence, but let me share what Oscar likes to do. I'll take him out at 5:30 or 6 a.m. and he pees just enough to relieve the pressure on the bladder, because he wants to be fed, and drink his water. So by 7 a.m. he's nudging me to take him out again, because by then he really has to pee, and he holds some back to "mark" on our walk.
Is it possible that Tasker did a "fake out" on his potty trip out this morning? Quincy used to do that to us, just to get a treat. He'd walk out, squat like he was peeing, but he wasn't, and come back in for a cookie. What a knucklehead! Laurie |
| It's possible but he has never done it before. Doug said it looked like he didn't even realize he was peeing. At 12+ it's been many years since he got a treat for doing his business so I doubt that thought crossed his mind. |
Ginny, Our old dog (18+) started doing that. A short time later, he could no longer get up by himself, and he peeeeeeed where he was lying.  |
| It is usually not likely that a male dog will become incontinent until much later on in life so it depends on how old he is and if thei keeps up and incontinence is usually just dribbling, not full on stream peeing. If it happens to be incontinence, it unfortunately isnt the easiest thing to treat in a male as it is in a female. I would say monitor him for a few days or a week and see if he does it again or if it is behavioral. |
| Hi Ginny,
Sorry to hear about Tasker. Sending him belly rubs! It may also be a form of dementia that some senior dogs get as they age. In the last year of Shaggy's life at age 15, I sometimes would see her wander in a corner and not know how to get out. She looked like a naughty school girl facing the corner! Sounds a bit humorous, but poor girl would be confused as if she forget how to even simply turn around. It didn't happen that often...once every couple months but enough so that I mentioned it to the vet. Anyhow just thought I'd mention it so you can be aware of another cause. Marianne |
| Marianne, I am afraid you may be right. I have been wondering for awhile if Tasker could be suffering from some form of senile dementia. He will often stand in the middle of the room and look at me as if he doesn't have a clue where he is or what he is doing. His vision is very poor but he used to be able to find his way around the yard and the house but I increasingly see him bumping into things he used to go around.
Luckily there has not been a recurrance of peeing on the floor although the outher day we were coming in the house from a walk and he started to do the poop walk in the foyer, I hussled him back outside but I found that odd too. |
| Our Maggie McGee IV had Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CDS) and treatment with Anipryl was fairly successful. You can check if Tasker has other symptoms here: http://www.cdsindogs.com/cds_checklist.asp
Anipryl doesn't work wonders but with Maggie, she didn't get stuck behind furniture or wander in circles in the yard. She had gotten to the point of getting night and day confused and disliked being paid attention to. The only symptom she never did exhibit was incontinence, so we were very fortunate. ButtersStotch started treating Lucy with Anipryl recently. Hopefully she'll have some positive feedback for us. |
| OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went to the site and check well over half
Last night I was sitting on the couch and Tasker came over to stand between me and the coffee table. After I petted him it was like he couldn't remember how to back out of the spot. |
| Yes, Lucy's on it right now. She's been on it for a few weeks and we're hoping to see some results soon. I have noticed she isn't so scared when she gets stuck in corners anymore, like she still wanders in there but if you tap her on the butt, she just kinds backs out like "Hey, what happened?" She has never been incontinent but in the last couple of weeks, she pooped in her sleep a couple of times. Nothing terrible though.
Like Maggie, Lucy also suffers from all the symptoms except incontinence. It's been hard because a lot of the time, she doesn't even know us. It makes her very scared and, in combination with her back pain, she startles and falls a lot, too. She does a lot of nutty stuff that we've actually just gotten used to but we're really hoping to see some improvement. Ultimately, she seems happy in her own little crazy world, I just wish she could be part of ours too. |
| My parents OES Daisy became senile for the last few years of her life.
She would go outside and immediately bark to come back in. Within two minutes she would be barking to go back out. Luckily this would only repeat a few times before she would go and lay down. Towards the end, this behavior increased. My Dad would just keep letting her in and taking her back out. |
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