To preface, my wife and I have two French Bulldogs: a 2-yr Female and 4-yr Male (both fixed). We live in a small 2-Bed condo (2nd Floor) with an infant.
The issue we're having is that our 2-yr Frenchie just relentlessly pees at her own discretion, and occasionally poops. She has bad days where she has messed in the house like, 6-8 times, and good days where she is a perfect little angel, depending on mood it seems. She consistently pees in and destroys her bed (both dogs are crated), and even our vet has no idea why she does this after being both A) potty trained -she does know to go to the door if she has to go to the bathroom- and B) she is no longer a puppy, so bladder control should be pretty well handled at this point .
We have a baby that is starting to learn to crawl and its just too real of a situation to ignore that someday soon she'll crawl right through a puddle of pee or pile of poop, and we won't even know until it's too late because she gives little to no warning about her accidents. This is causing us to feel like re-homing or surrendering her is our only realistic option, being short on both time/availability and money as we are. We've tried training her ourselves but we feel at a disadvantage with her deafness, though she does know some hand signs. We have talked about going to training classes, but it's not really realistic with my work schedule and our baby, and also not something we can really afford.
Addt'l info: -She is born deaf, and knows a few commands via signing, as well as to ask to go to the door when she needs to go. When she does mess, she knows she did bad and feels guilty.
-We have considered that she may have a UTI and this could be the root cause, and are working on getting an appointment to find out, but that seems unlikely since she's had this behavior since being a puppy and she does have days where it doesn't happen, so it's a little inconsistent.
-for being a "lazy breed", she is pretty high energy and this was not something we were prepared for. She plays with her brother lots, but otherwise doesn't socialize or get out much since we're kinda homebodies since the baby came, and even before if I'm honest. This makes me feel like her needs aren't being met by us and is another reason why we're considering surrending her, because I just don't know if we're giving her what she needs and it's heartbreaking to punish her if she's just acting out from having too much energy. We really want to be fair to her needs too.
-She is such a little hellion, then sweetheart. She's like those Sour Patch Kid commercials where she just raises hell and then immediately melts your heart, we love her so much.
I know this is a huge post but I just want to offer up as much info as I can to help us find the best solution not only for us, but for her. Feel free to ask any additional questions, I'll answer then as best I can.
TL;DR : we have an energetic deaf dog that we weren't prepared for, and who messes in the house constantly. Considering surrending her because we're afraid her needs aren't being met, and it isn't fair to us or her to have to punish her all the time.
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