Senior Shepherd
Hi everyone. I have a 12 year old senior shepherd (the love of my life!). Recently, she’s started having accidents in the house. I took her to the vet for it about a month ago, and even though they did not see any bacteria or white blood cells on her urinalysis they treated her for a UTI. This led to fecal incontinence that eventually cleared up with extra medication and the accidents in the house stopped for about a month. Now, they’ve started back up again (minus fecal incontinence). Queue a very expensive vet visit later, and x-rays show no signs of stones, urinalysis is still completely clear, and they did not perform blood work because she had just had some in March that was totally clear (this began in April). The doctor sent her home with some incontinence meds which she’s been on for about 5 days now, and we thought maybe we were in the clear, but she’s just had another accident. Any ideas of what could be going on?
Important to note: I was not sold on the idea that it was urinary incontinence because she is aware of the fact that she is peeing. She’s not waking up wet, and there are no wet spots when she gets up from the couch/floor. She does appear to be drinking/peeing more but they don’t believe it to be related to diabetes since her previous blood work did not have any indicators for that.
I’m at a loss and hopefully want some ideas to bring up to the vet at her next appointment. Thank you in advance.