Dog pees while sleeping/laying down

[kelley182]

Do any of you have experience with a dog who pees in his sleep or while laying down?

Our dog started doing this about 4-5 months ago.  Initially, it was a UTI but now it's not.  A few months ago I had him retested and the vet didn't see any sign of infection but put him on another round of antibiotics just in case.  They also scared me half to death.  They said that he had kidney failure but then when they sent for an offsite test, it came back ok.  They told me that if he did it again to call them for some incontinence meds but that just doesn't make sense for an almost 2 year old dog.
He is potty trained and didn't do this for the first 5 months that we had him.  He never tries to pee in the house like he would outside (lifting leg, etc), he's always laying down.
My MIL thinks it might be anxiety because he did it several times in one night/morning while we were watching her dog but tonight he just did it while it was just DH and I sitting on the couch with him.

I'm really at a loss with all of this.  Any thoughts and suggestions would be very much appreciated.

TIA!

[katietornado]

I dunno if this helps at all...


I fostered a greyhound who had a course of UTIs that were tough to treat. As a result, she was incontinent. She would wet the bed, literally. It was never intentional, and never happened when she was upright. Just laying in bed.

The vet put her on Proin (pronounced "PRO-inn"). It was a miracle for her. Just a half tablet a day and she was like brand new again

So, you could try Proin. You could also try a belly band. And you could also try behavioral stuff. Is it only on his bed? Or only on the couch? I've had fosters that exhibited some really poor behavior if I gave them too much leeway. One dog peed on stuff when I allowed him on the couch. When I started treating him like a dog again, he stopped being such a jerk.

Hope you can figure it out; I know from (too much) experience how not fun it is to clean up pee day in and day out.

[kelley182]

Oct 16, 2015 0:29:18 GMT -5 katietornado said:

I dunno if this helps at all...


I fostered a greyhound who had a course of UTIs that were tough to treat. As a result, she was incontinent. She would wet the bed, literally. It was never intentional, and never happened when she was upright. Just laying in bed.

The vet put her on Proin (pronounced "PRO-inn"). It was a miracle for her. Just a half tablet a day and she was like brand new again

So, you could try Proin. You could also try a belly band. And you could also try behavioral stuff. Is it only on his bed? Or only on the couch? I've had fosters that exhibited some really poor behavior if I gave them too much leeway. One dog peed on stuff when I allowed him on the couch. When I started treating him like a dog again, he stopped being such a jerk.

Hope you can figure it out; I know from (too much) experience how not fun it is to clean up pee day in and day out.

DH and I have been thinking on this and because it's not every day, we're leaning towards it not being a physical problem.  He can go days or weeks without any accidents.  He's never peed in his bed but he rarely sleeps in it...lol.  He has only peed on our bed and couches and it's usually while he's asleep or just extremely relaxed.  I think you are on to something with the behavioral issues you've seen with fosters.  

Last night when he peed, we decided to try scolding him, in case he just wasn't properly potty trained by his original owner. That was probably a bad idea because then he peed again when he laid down in a different spot and again on our bed shortly thereafter.  (Note - he went and peed outside just before getting on our bed)  We're guessing that we upset him when we scolded him and that probably made him pee more...ugh

A trainer once told us that as part of teaching him that we are the pack leaders, we need to keep him from sleeping on our bed for a few weeks.  Unfortunately, DH is such a pushover that I can't make this happen.  It is hard to keep him off the bed because when we don't let him on the bed, he acts like he is being punished...so I get why DH has trouble with it but it really is something we need to do.  So again, you're probably on to something with your comments on the behavioral issues...at least I hope that's all it is.

[kelley182]

and he peed on the couch again last night 

[hamster]

What was his BUN and Creatinine levels on his bloodwork?

My dog was diagnosed with juvenile kidney disease at under 1 year old. He had incontinence at night, dilute urine, and slightly elevated but still "normal" BUN and Creatinine levels.

[kelley182]

His BUN level was 1 point higher than what it should be.

I think we may have figured things out (fingers crossed). We've made him sleep in his dog bed the last 3 nights and he hasn't peed.