Help! my 7 month old has started messing at night again

[GeorgieBulldog]

I've got no idea what else to do, my 7 month old victorian bulldog has started peeing and poohing at night again. We got her spayed about 5 weeks ago, her 1st 3 nights after were fine but ever since she has peed and poohed. She can sometimes go 1/2/3/4 even 5 nights being clean then she'll have 1 2 or 3 bad nights? The vet said to get her crate back out but that isn't helping. I take her water away at 5. She goes out for a pee and pooh before bed about 10/11 and I'm up again at 6 in the morning. What else can I do please?

 

[Tessbulldog]

[SIZE=12pt]We are experiencing similar problems with our OTB Tess who is 11 months and not been spayed yet. She previously had a few accidents at night, wee and poo, so we started taking her water up at 7-8pm and just feeding her once a day in the morning, She has Wainwrights grain free food, one tray of meat and biscuits. This seemed to work for a while, but she has started to poo during the night again, it’s always in exactly the same place (the furthest place away from her bed) . She is confined to the kitchen when we are out or in bed, it’s quite a big area. She never has any accidents during the day ( never left for more than 4-5 hours max) Has min 3 regular walks a day, her last walk is before we go to bed around 10-11pm and generally poo’s during these walks. She only poos in the garden when she really has too. We are finding it so frustrating waking up most mornings to a poo or two! I don’t know where all this poo comes from! The only times she doesn’t mess at night is when she sleeps in our room, but I really don’t want to get into that habit.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=12pt]I think I am going to change her feeding times again, maybe try feeding at midday and see if that helps, if not change it to evening. If that doesn’t work, its back to the crate at night time, although when were first got her at 6 months she would poo in her crate at night, which is very unusual for a dog to do.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=12pt]Let me know how you get on with anything you try..... [/SIZE]

 

[Raven oaktree]

I've got no idea what else to do, my 7 month old victorian bulldog has started peeing and poohing at night again. We got her spayed about 5 weeks ago, her 1st 3 nights after were fine but ever since she has peed and poohed. She can sometimes go 1/2/3/4 even 5 nights being clean then she'll have 1 2 or 3 bad nights? The vet said to get her crate back out but that isn't helping. I take her water away at 5. She goes out for a pee and pooh before bed about 10/11 and I'm up again at 6 in the morning. What else can I do please?

Im not sure what to suggest but i do think 13 hours without access to water is too long, especially in the summer-sorry

 

[eingana]

I agree that 13 hours is too long without a drink. I'd leave a small drink in her bowl or allow her supervised drinking just before you go to bed.

As for the peeing and pooing at night, I'm afraid I have no smart answers. Have you tried putting a webcam on during the night to see what she's actually doing during those hours? If she's not settling (for whatever reason) then that could account for the full bladder and the body keeping working during the night.

It's worth bearing in mind that both of these dogs are at an age where a lot of 'phases' happen, both behavioural changes and body changes, and I know that bulldogs are stubborn little souls, so there's plenty of latitude for boundary testing in there.

My spidey senses tell me that if a dog doesn't wee or poo when she sleeps in the bedroom with you then there's a reason why she's not sleeping as well when she's not in the room with you, but as for what that reason is, I have no idea. Could there be a security light in a neighbour's garden that goes on at some points and wakes her, or a light that flashes somewhere? Even a small LED that is catching her attention can be the cause, as there is lots of data that children sleep less well in a room with a clock that glows and which is visible from their bed.

The reason why she's sleeping less well could be all sorts of things, from anxiety to neighbours who work shifts or who come home late on the nights that the breaks in training happen. If you can observe a night when this happens then you can at least have a chance of addressing that, whether that's removing lights, blackout blinds or a ticking clock to provide calming noises.