My 9 yr old house trained Dachshund has started peeing on her bed, but only the one in family room, not her night time bed or on the couch pillow she likes to lay on. She's been to vet, had tests and X-rays, but nothing major showed up so they put her on incontinence meds. Still she only does this on her daytime bed. I've washed it many times and the last washing was with vinegar, but the same day she peed in it again. I took up the bed for about a week and no accidents anywhere. I bought a new bed, of course with no pee scent, and within 24 hrs she peed on it.
This doesn't seem to be a problem of holding her bladder because she doesn't go anywhere else and she can hold it all night! I just can't figure out what it is about that one place regardless of the bed apparently, new or not. In January we moved her from sleeping on a chair, to prevent her from jumping due to a disc problem common to Dachshunds, to sleeping in the dog bed on the floor. The peeing in the bed started the first week of March though; I just didn't know if it could have anything to do with that!
By Diane
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That is a tough one. The only thing I can think of is that she sleeps in a different position in that bed. With a disc problem you can sometimes have a pinched nerve that affects the bladder or bowels. My 1st thought was diabetes because of her age, but sounds like you had all the obvious things checked out.
My 12 year old Greyhound started doing that and then developed a large tumor on her side. It was cancer and I think by peeing on her bed it was her way of trying to tell me something was wrong with her. Take your dog to the Vet and get it checked out.
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