I love my Lola, I always have, always will...the people who owned her before her didn’t. I really don’t know much about the people who owned her before me but from what I can gather, they likely weren’t great with her. The previous owners posted an ad on Facebook asking for people to take Lola, I commented but this other couple beat me to it, so the owners gave her to these other people. It took this couple less than a day to abandon her in the countryside. The previous owners reached out and said if I can find her I can have her, so I went out after work for a few days and eventually found her.
As you can expect Lola was a nervous wreck. We found out immediately she had extremely destructive separation anxiety, she’s destroyed kennels and couches while on sedatives. When I went to scold her the first few times she acted up she would squat down and piddle. Whenever I came home same thing, she’d just run up to me super excited and then start peeing. I knew it wasn’t a potty training issue cause she knew how to ask to go to the bathroom, and when she’d piddle she’d snap around and sniff like she was surprised it happened.
I tried taking her to the vet to see if she had a bladder infection or something, but the vets in my small town are kinda garbage. I basically have to pull their arm to get them to actually take a look at my dogs. My visit to them with Lola went like this, I brought her in and told the vet my situation with Lola and her piddling. The vet cut me off and told me it was a behavioral issue, and told me where I can pay. Just as the vet was walking out of the room Lola squatted a peed on the table. Vet took one look at the urine, told me she did in fact have a bladder infection and wrote me a prescription and I thought it would be the end of it.
Lola’s bladder infection cleared up, but the piddling got worse. She started doing it so much more. She would jump up with me on the couch and nuzzle into me and roll over, but then she’d pee all over the couch. I’d go to pet her just walking by her and she squats down and piddles, I talk to her in a happy high pitched voice she piddles, I say “Hi Lola Bear!” from across the room she piddles, you get the gist. It’s just ever since she got treated this behavior has got much worse. I’ve read that you’re not supposed to scold them when they do this or the behavior will get much worse, so that’s what I’ve been doing for over a year now. When it happens I calmly and slowly get up take her out so she pees outside, I give her a treat when she does pee outside, then come back and clean it up.
As of these past two months the behavior has got even worse than what it was before, it’s more frequent with seemingly more triggers. I’ve never hit her, yelled at her, or anything that might scare her. Despite this these past couple of months there’s times where she’s suddenly terrified of me. She gets low, tucks her ears back and puts her tail between her legs and avoids me and if take one step closer to her, even if I’m not looking at her, she empties her bladder. Just last night I woke up to her sniffing my face, and as soon as I said “Hi Lola” she jumped up to spoon me. As she did she piddled on the carpet, the side of my bed all the way into my lap and all over herself. I let her out 3-5 times a day. I always let her out minutes before we go to bed cause if I don’t she piddles while waiting to be let out, which is the very first thing I do in the morning. I get super excited for her when she pees outside, but again her behavior has just got worse as time has progressed. Just now she came running to me jumped up on the couch and let herself flop onto me so I can rub her belly but before I could her she piddled, we went for a walk 30 minutes prior to this where she peed multiple times. I’m at my wits end as to how to prevent this behavior. Nothing I do seems to be working and it’s painful to see her so scared of me. Vets keep telling me it’s behavioral and tell me to keep doing what I’m already doing, but like I said she’s only got worse. Any sort if insight into how I can make my dog more comfortable so she doesn’t feel the need to piddle would be greatly appreciated.
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