I have a friend that has taken in several abused animals before. I’ll ask him do a post on it that I can put on the site and then I’ll go back and edit this reply with a link to it so you can find it easier.

We have anothe rproblem now though. When she first sees me (say when I come out of the bedroom or home from work) and I pat her, she cowes & crouches down and wee’s.
She is fine with me during the day generally. I think she must have been abused by a male at some stage, because she normally doesn’t do it with my wife (just once). She is either very fearful of me, or trying to do wee’s to please me, (or both). I’ve started approaching her only in a very non threatening way, getting down to her level more and spending heaps of time patting and playing with her, but it looks like this might take a while to get sorted. Any ideas gratefully appreciated.
Regards Brendan.

Another post I have covers “Signaling the need to go.” Just click that link to be taken to it.

Since you don’t want to be going out at night all the time, I suggest you get some training pads to use at night. Place one down at bedtime and pick it up in the morning to help save your carpet. Any pet supply shop should have them. Meanwhile, try to find out if she is going about the same time every night so you can take her outside earlier and earlier to get her in the habit of a more suitable time for you. Fair warning that could take weeks.

Since you just got her, are you sure she is used to being alone all night? Anxiety could be causing the puddles. Check out “Dealing with a lonely dog”, specifically the section on bedtime.

One final note, PLEASE do not restrict her from water. It can give her kidney and bladder problems, expensive for you, painful for her. Also, it can make her pee more often due to the concentration of toxins i her urine that would otherwise be diluted to a harmless amount.

There are several things to help you with your dog, I hope one of them fits your situation and solves the problem.

Just wondering if you can help us. We have just got a 10 month old female dog, who sleeps in the kitchen behind a low barrier (across the doorway). She does toilets on command in the evenings before going to bed, but often wets during the night. How can we teach her to tell us shes wants to go outside (we sleep in a room next door and could possibly hear her). We don’t want her wetting on the lounge carpet, and we don’t want her to get in the habit of going out in the middle of the night. She only gets a small amount of water after 8.00pm.

Your help would be greatly appreciate.

Regards
Brendan Conroy

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