Sooooo this morning at around 5am I woke up to the sound of trickling water...right next to me! Gavroche was completely asleep and peeing the bed :wall:
I've suspected he's been doing this occasionally for the last couple months, but never caught him in the act. Also it's usually been on days I sleep late, which means he might have been 12-14 hours without going outside. Well, he went outside and peed after 11pm last night, and was peeing the bed at 5 this morning. That's not even 6 hours!
I think he may have had some small accidents in his crate, too. It smells fainly of pee once in a while, but I never found any spots.
Took him to work with me this morning and had a UA done, and everything was perfect, except his specific gravity was a little low. So we're going to check that a few times in the next couple weeks and see if it stays low, to try to rule out diabetes insipidus. He has been drinking more lately - seems like it started a few months ago when he was on a round of Benadryl. It got better when he stopped the benedryl, but come to think of it he has never returned to "normal" levels after that. He does no have diabetes mellitus, thankfully! I check his glucose a few weeks ago and it was around 70 an hour or two after he ate, which I found kind of odd (I expected it to be at least a little higher).
He's due for bloodwork (mini panel and T4) on Monday, so we're going to recheck a urine specific gravity then. We didn't do an xray because there's no blood or protein or anything in his urine to indicate he might have stones. Our ultrasound is out for repairs right now, but should be back tomorrow. So Monday we'll stick the probe on him and take a look to make sure there aren't any stones.
Anyone have experience with anything like this in a male dog?
I've suspected he's been doing this occasionally for the last couple months, but never caught him in the act. Also it's usually been on days I sleep late, which means he might have been 12-14 hours without going outside. Well, he went outside and peed after 11pm last night, and was peeing the bed at 5 this morning. That's not even 6 hours!
I think he may have had some small accidents in his crate, too. It smells fainly of pee once in a while, but I never found any spots.
Took him to work with me this morning and had a UA done, and everything was perfect, except his specific gravity was a little low. So we're going to check that a few times in the next couple weeks and see if it stays low, to try to rule out diabetes insipidus. He has been drinking more lately - seems like it started a few months ago when he was on a round of Benadryl. It got better when he stopped the benedryl, but come to think of it he has never returned to "normal" levels after that. He does no have diabetes mellitus, thankfully! I check his glucose a few weeks ago and it was around 70 an hour or two after he ate, which I found kind of odd (I expected it to be at least a little higher).
He's due for bloodwork (mini panel and T4) on Monday, so we're going to recheck a urine specific gravity then. We didn't do an xray because there's no blood or protein or anything in his urine to indicate he might have stones. Our ultrasound is out for repairs right now, but should be back tomorrow. So Monday we'll stick the probe on him and take a look to make sure there aren't any stones.
Anyone have experience with anything like this in a male dog?