Peeing in the cage/crate

[lailasmommy]

Hey everybody. I am a proud mother to a 6-7 month female boxer named Laila. My girlfriend and I are having problems with Laila peeing in her cage/crate. We are currently trying to crate training. She was spayed on last monday and her 10th day of healing is today. YAY she can be active, but I don't understand why she is peeing in the cage and after she pees she licks it up my thinking is because she is cleaning it up and there won't be a mess. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Laila's mommy

 

[gmacleod]

Has the peeing in the crate just started since she was spayed? If so, the poor girl may simply not be able to help it - and the answer is actually to provide her with more opportunities to relieve herself without having to either sit in it or lick it up.

Spaying is ovario-hysterectomy. It may be a "routine" surgery, but it's also an extremely invasive surgery. It's complete removal of the womb, the ovaries, horns - the lot. And in removing all that, lots of other organs - bladder included - get shunted around a bit. Recovery takes a while, and it's not at all unusual for bitches to have less control of their vaginal and associated muscles for a bit. And so, it is very likely that she's going to be less able to hold her bladder when it's full - and you need to help her out a bit here with more opportunities to potty outdoors

PS: I approved this post manually for you, since your dog needs a bit of help here. But that does not eliminate the need (per the site rules) for you to introduce yourself to the community in the introductions forum before posting again on the site.

 

[ELubas]

My girl had some accidents for a couple of months after her spay. Actually thought it might be spay incontinence. We did have an ultrasound and the vet said her bladder, as she is very narrow, is a bit pushed up against her pelvis, perhaps causing her to be a bit urgent when she has to go. Gmacleod suggested I try adding some fresh parsley to her food and that seemed to do the trick. As I understand it the parsley helps insure that they totally eliminate. At any rate she seems to be right as rain now so hopefully your girl will get back on track as well

 

[northernboxr]

Gmacleod suggested I try adding some fresh parsley to her food and that seemed to do the trick. As I understand it the parsley helps insure that they totally eliminate.

Parsley??? Goodness! The things people figure out.... Do you think this could help in males too? Sometimes my boy does not empty his bladder completely. He is not marking yet, but sometimes it takes him a few tries to get it all out. I don't really mind (I'm patient ) but if a few sprigs of parsely would help.... hehe- maybe it would freshen his puppy breath too

 

[gmacleod]

Parsley is a natural cure for incontinence - works on males, females, dogs, people... It is not gender specific

The reason it helps (in a great many cases) is through being a natural diuretic. So, if your dog (or you) have the sort of incontinence problem that can be helped by diuretics (which help to ensure the bladder is emptied completely, hence less for leaking later), then parsley is worth a try.

 

[ELubas]

Parsley??? Goodness! The things people figure out.... Do you think this could help in males too? Sometimes my boy does not empty his bladder completely. He is not marking yet, but sometimes it takes him a few tries to get it all out. I don't really mind (I'm patient ) but if a few sprigs of parsely would help.... hehe- maybe it would freshen his puppy breath too

I would assume so and like you say, it is easy enough to try. Good luck

 

[lailasmommy]

I am willing to try the parsley. How long do we have to put parsley in her food?

 

[gmacleod]

Hmmm - I don't think parsley is necessarily an appropriate treatment at this stage. Well, what I really mean is that only 10 days after the spay, the problem is most likely to just be her organs having been battered about by the surgery and just needing time to recover. Parsley isn't going to help that. It's an incontinence cure, not a bruised-and-battered-organs cure (time is more appropriate for that).

I should, perhaps, have specified that my earlier response about parsley was to the side conversation - for the purpose of explaining its role as an incontinence cure.

For your girl, however, I'd stick to my earlier advice about giving her some time to recover and, in the meantime, providing for her increased need for potty opportunities. IF she doesn't recover within about a week or two, then a vet visit is actually appropriate to see that nothing's wrong. Only after that (time and medical exam) would I consider an incontinence treatment to be appropriate.

 

[lailasmommy]

I'll wait it out and see. Before she wasn't peeing twice outside and now she is so I guess that is a good thing. thanks for the advice everyone

 

[lailasmommy]

I just want to let everyone know that Laila held her pee from 2:30 until 11:30. We went to an amusement park and left her in her cage. But she turned right back around after I fed and gave her water to pee in the cage again. I hope she gets out of the peeing in the cage issue soon. We are going to section off the cage to make it smaller to see how that works.