How often do your corgis urinate?
We adopted a 3 year old PWC last week. She's housebroken and has had no accidents in the house. As far as I can tell, she's never "asked' to be let outside---I usually offer every ~3 to 4 hours. She usually pees twice a day, once on her morning walk and once on her evening walk. She rarely goes in the backyard when I let her out first thing in the morning, and by then it might have been over 12 hours since she last peed.
I've been home with her most of this past week. I had to work 7 AM-3PM today (not my usual schedule, but nothing I could do about it). I took her for a long walk at about 5:30 AM, she peed. I crated her, my aunt came by around noon and let her out, kept her out in the yard for about 20 minutes, she didn't pee. I got home at 3:30, let her right out in the yard, and all she did was stare at me or sniff around. Finally she ran back to the door to be let back in the house. Right after that I took her for a walk. She pooped, but didn't pee. It's 20 minutes to 5 PM, and she still hasn't peed since 5:30 AM. She's asleep on the floor right now. I made sure her walk wasn't rushed and she had ample opportunity to sniff around for a good spot.
She did not pee in the crate.
I think in her previous home she was alone most of the day and had access to the outside via doggy door.
Anyway, in summary, she regularly seems to go 12-15 hours without peeing, despite having the opportunity to. She seems to drink a normal amount of water and poops everyday. Poop is normal--not constipated.
Is this normal??
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Permalink Reply by Marcie on
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Beeca goes three to five times a day if I am working. As soon as I get up 5ish, then on her walk at around 6. Then 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and again around 8. I go to bed early during the school year. Becca also marks on her walks so I guess really she has the opportunity to go that many times, but will pee up to 6 times on a two mile walk. Since school has been out she is asking to go more often. My guess is your pem is still on her old schedule.
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Permalink Reply by Diane on
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Chewey quite often holds it from about 6-7 p.m. at night until 7-8 a.m, even though he can easily use the doggy door to go outside. When we first got him (as an adult) we couldn't believe that he didn't have to go more often than that at night, so we would take him outside and encourage him. Sometimes he would but quite often he wouldn't, so we finally just gave up... I have no idea if that's typical or not. I know I sure as heck can't hold it that long ;->
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Permalink Reply by Melissa and Franklin! on
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Franklin generally goes 4-6 times a day. I let him out in the morning, then again on my lunch hour, then when I get home and usually once more before bed. He has 24/7 access to the outside with a dog door but will not go out and pee on his own without me telling him to. Twice a day doesn't seem like often enough. Maybe add some water to her food when you feed her just to increase her water intake. When she does pee can you see what the urine looks like? Is it really dark or light? Is there a smell to it? It may be just a matter of her adjusting to the new routine but I would definitely encourage her to drink more so she pees more. The kidneys should constantly be filtering out by-products and I think for urinary tract heath in dogs, just like in humans, its a good thing to flush the system regularly, having urine sitting in the bladder and possibly backing up into the kidneys from not peeing for 12-15 hours can't be good for her kidney health.
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Permalink Reply by Snickmom on
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When we brought Dolly, our rescue, home we went through the same steps to potty train as we would a puppy. It is very hard to reward them for going if they won't go. She would pee around 8pm before bed and not go again until noon the next day. It took time for her to get comfortable with her new home and now she will go as soon as we get up in the morning. We have a doggie door, so I don't know how often she goes during the day, but on walks it was every 5th blade of grass (until I convinced her otherwise) LOL. Dolly does have her favorite spots in the yard, so maybe if you took her to the same spot? Also our dogs like to pee in each other's spots, so if Ein has a spot, take her there.
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Permalink Reply by Ingrid & Ein on
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Thanks everyone. @Sam, it's kinda hard for me to tell how much she's drinking---we have a big water dish, and I dump and refill it when it gets hairy. But I'd say I see her at it a normal amount. I wouldn't say she drinks a LOT of water though.
I did put 1/4 cup water in her kibble this morning as I figure the extra water couldn't hurt. I wasn't sure how she'd like that but she drank up the water then ate for her food like normal! So I think I'll keep doing that.
So it looks like there a couple of possible scenarios---1) there's something medically wrong going on (hope not!) or 2) She's still getting used to living here and our schedule and this can happen with adult rehomed dogs?
By the way, she finally peed yesterday at 8:30 PM---15 hours later! And we're at about 12 hours now since last pee---although I haven't walked her yet and she usually goes on her AM walk.
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I probably wouldn't worry too too much about a medical issue at this point until you have had her for a few weeks and this continues. She probably just had a very set routine and she's just trying to get used to the new one. Maybe the added water in her food will make her have to go more often and when she does she can get lots and lots of praise and learn peeing often is a good thing! :-D
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Permalink Reply by Beth on
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Dogs use urinating/defecating both to relieve themselves and leave messages for other dogs.
A new adult dog in a new home, especially a female, can worry about where it is "safe" to go and try to wait. When we first brought Maddie home, she would only pee exactly where Jack would pee, and it would take her an entire walk to poop. She still does not like to go if we take her to a strange place by herself, but goes right away if she's with Jack and Jack goes first.
I would not worry too much at this point if she's going and does not seem to have pain or straining or anything like that.
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Permalink Reply by mosesbotbol on
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Camber will as often as we let her out. No matter how much I think she couldn't go once again; she does. She can hold it 10 hours too.
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