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Please help, potty-training catastrophe

Sent to Pet Experts October 10 2004 at 8:08 AM
   

I have an 11 month old Boxer pup. She has been relatively easy to house train aside from the expected accident here and there. However, and I know this probably sounds ridiculous, she wets the bed at night! She sleeps so hard she wets in her sleep. I don’t know what to do. She has no access to water after about 7pm. I have been getting up every couple of hours clear through the night to let her outside, but the accidents keep coming. Any advice?????

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October 10 2004 at 9:26 AM (1 hour and 18 minutes and 6 seconds later)
         
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  First you need to rule out a medical reason. Sometimes when they are brewing a lowgrade bladder infection, they can't help it. As long as that not the case and its no other medical reason that she does it then you may try giving her smaller amounts of water frequently and take her out to potty 2-3 times before bedtime praising her like the dickens everytime she goes potty. She will catch on quickly. Boxers are very bright. She may be, when she goes, just not emptying her bladder so this will encourage her to do just that. I can empathize with the fact of how deep they sleep. My boxer sleeps on they bed and snores and dreams so loud that I can't sleep. I could drop a bomb on him and he wouldn't wake up so I get what you mean.
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October 10 2004 at 2:41 PM (5 hours and 15 minutes and 15 seconds later)
         
Response to ZooCVT's Post: Thank you for the response. I have taken her to the vet and he swears she does not have a bladder infection. That was the first thing I thought when this started happening. As for giving her water. How much does she need and how often? I used to just give her small amts of water on intervals but she just seemed sooooo thirsty. Also, is there such thing as a "normal" amount of time between when she should need to go? She goes to bed for the night around 10, I'll wake her up and take her out around midnight, again around 2:30, once at 4:30, then we're up for the day around 6:30 or 7. It never fails that sometime between those outings she wets the bed...a lot. It's not just a small puddle, but a complete soaking. Plus the water's put away by 7pm. Could there be other medical reasons other than a bladder infection that would cause this? Or is this just going to take a LOT of sleepless nights on my part and hers to get her to wake up before she goes?
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October 10 2004 at 4:42 PM (2 hours and 31 seconds later)
         
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 There's no real set amount that's required. It sounds like you're trying everything. It may be, like I said, that she's just not emptying her bladder each time she goes because she knows she will get to go out again fairly soon. What you can do is try leaving ice in her bowl instead. Sometimes, like with my dogs, if there's water there, they feel the need to finish it...no clue why they just do so I just keep it outside and give the ice inside. There are medical reasons for it also. If she's incontinent she would be doing this. Also sometimes if they've just been spayed, sometimes the bladder is manipulated and will temporarily cause this. Sorry I wish I could be more help but hopefully I answered want you need.

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