Hi everyone. Not been on COL for a while, so my apologies for only coming on when we've got a problem.
Over the last 4 - 6 weeks we've been finding very large puddles on several occasions indoors. At first OH blamed 9 month old goldie Jess (it couldn't possibly have been his favourite boy Ozzy!!!
) but her toilet training was very rapid and she has been reliable for a long, long time now. Then I caught Ozzy in the act a week or two ago, doing an absolutely enormous wee in the middle of the kitchen floor, about 10.30 in the morning. Of course, we blamed ourselves for not letting him out enough, and also we've changed our routine a bit so we don't take them for their walks until 11 ish, rather than straight after breakfast. So we started to let him out at very frequent intervals. Sometimes he'd wee and sometimes not. Then I noticed he seemed to be drinking a lot. Saturday was the final straw. He did a huge puddle in the hall, outside the lounge door, again at about the same time in the morning. Then, when I got into bed that night, I found a very large wet patch - it had soaked right through a blanket, the duvet, the sheet, the mattress topper, and into the mattress! Needless to say I was not amused, and it entailed us spending the night in the spare room.
Ozzy has always been very reliable, and we haven't come down in the mornings to any puddles, so he's holding it for a good 9 hours overnight. So I'm puzzled. I'm thinking that it's maybe a urine infection, although he doesn't seem to be showing any other signs of illness, still eating fine. It's just occurred to me that when he had his jabs last week, the vet (not his usual one) took his temperature and said it was a little high, but she put that down to the fact that we had waited 20 minutes and he'd got over excited in the waiting room.
Anyway, appointment made to see the vet tomorrow morning. However, I know I won't be able to get a urine sample, so hopefully one the the brilliant vet nurses will be able to. Please all keep your fingers crossed that it's nothing too serious.
If it turns out it's a behavioural problem in response to having to share us with Jess, then goodness knows how we will deal with it. I don't see why it should be though - we've had her since March!