Taurus and Jada Posted November 2, 2004 Posted November 2, 2004 I have a question regarding bladder infections in dogs. A little background info first. I have a female Presa Canario mix , she is spayed ( since 7 months old) and she is currently 15 months old. She has been housetrained completely for 6-8 months now, but within the past two weeks, she has been having accidents in the house. She is having to pee every hour to hour and a half, and if she doesn't get outside, she will have an accident. The strangest thing is that at night she seems to be peeing in her sleep, because her bed has smelt like pee (quite strongly) 3 times over the past two weeks. I wash it each time, and have taken it to the dry cleaners as well...I find it odd that she would be sleeping in her own pee??? But she doesn't get up to have the accident, she is still sleeping when I wake up, and the bed smells like urine. I took a smaple of her pee to the vet this morning for them to test, and he called and said that everything was completely normal. He told me to keep an eye on it, but that there really wasn't anything he could think of that would be causing it. I really dont want to have to deal with a urine filled bed for the next 10 years! Is there anything else that perhpaps this could be? Thank you Kara Quote
courtnek Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 Does she seem extra thirsty two? She could be a borderline diabetic, which would cause excess thirst and urination....what did the test the urine for? Usually they do blood tests to check for diabetes... Quote
Taurus and Jada Posted November 3, 2004 Author Posted November 3, 2004 courtnek napisał(a):Does she seem extra thirsty two? She could be a borderline diabetic, which would cause excess thirst and urination....what did the test the urine for? Usually they do blood tests to check for diabetes... she doesn't seem to be drinking any more then normal. Im not exactly sure what they checked for, but when he called me he said her wgite and red blood cells were fine and showed no problems??(what ever that means??) Quote
courtnek Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 if they tested for white and red blood cells it was probably for infection. your white blood cell count gets higher when there is a baterial infection, which is what a UTI would be. (I may SOUND like a doctor, but I am a diabetic. we need to know these things) If she continues to urinate in an out of the ordinary fashion, I would ask them to do a blood test for diabetes. Its not common in dogs, but can happen. If she is borderline, you may not notice a major change in water intake, but urine outake would increase. If it turms out to be that, (I hope not) I will help you with whatever you need to know..... :D Quote
courtnek Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 I only stated that because blood cell counts are usually used fo infection, and nothing else. You cant fin diabetes with a blood cell count. I would ask what he tested for... Quote
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