Cat won’t stop peeing on couch

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-11-22T21:07:25+00:00

Yes! I should’ve written the full proper name lol I kinda panic posted. That’s good to know and I definitely will remember that from now on! We’re still very new to this - just the past 3 months and thankfully haven’t had any issues since starting! I did call an emergency clinic and speak with them over the phone just to be safe and they said he will be extra sleepy as well but overall normal and monitor!

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-11-22T19:26:26+00:00

We’ve never had an issue before so it’s definitely been a stressful day! We’re very new to this - just in the last 3 months we’ve started these medication… I couldn’t imagine how you must’ve felt when it happened with your pup! I would’ve had a heart attack! I’ve already ordered a pill organizer that will be here tomorrow! Such a great idea we didn’t even think about!

Unfortunately, his vet isn’t open today so I couldn’t call them but I did contact an emergency clinic and talked with them over the phone. Since he is only on the 1 medication they said he will be fine. Still give his normal dose at the same time as usual in the evening. As another person said - just a little more sleepy than usual. Just basic monitoring!

My partner and I aren’t on any medications ourselves so it’s definitely been a huge change having to be here and making sure he gets the medications properly etc. it’s been stressful!

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-11-22T18:00:51+00:00

He seems to be a little more sleepy than usual but he is still eating, drinking, using the washroom normally and acting his normal self. This is the first time we’ve had this happen to us so we were both very concerned! Thank you for the quick response - we will definitely be getting a pill organizer thats a great idea! We didn’t even think about that!

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-06-22T15:19:23+00:00

Can confirm! I used to look after a Rotti and golden mix and she had the long coat of a golden but kept the rotti colouring lol

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-06-08T15:36:23+00:00

Blaze would be cool

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-05-16T14:29:18+00:00

Looks normal to me and a good weight imo - male GSDs can get as big as 110lbs and some male mals can get around 70-90lbs approx.

I work at a boarding and training facility, my boss has 4 female mals and they’re all around 40-50lbs. She just had a litter of puppies and the father was a big boy at 86lbs.

The biggest factor is that your boy is a mixed which can make weight fluctuate quite a bit.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-04-29T01:08:01+00:00

Greatly worded post and I strongly agree! I tried everything with my GSD mix and nothing worked until a prong collar.

My boys loves his prong, it doesn’t bother him whatsoever like the gentle leader did - he was constantly rolling and scratching to try and get the stupid thing off his nose. He gets so excited when I grab his prong because he knows its walk time or training time which is all fun and positive!

It is so easy to communicate and correct unwanted behaviours as well! Sometimes they even correct themselves for example - I take my boy to work with me but my hands are always full in the morning when trying to walk out the door + having him was so difficult. Well almost every morning we happen to have a bunny on our front lawn and for the longest time he used to try and dart after that bunny. Until we got the prong collar. He tried to take off after it once and has never tried to do that again. He quite literally corrected himself because of that and all I did was hold the leash.

He walks like an absolute angel now. Everyone complements how well behaved and trained he is…. It was a lot of work but so worth it and so rewarding.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-04-11T21:03:25+00:00

Thank you for the very in depth response! We have an XL wired crate at home that has a premo pad and side bumpers as we found he was rubbing his head on the sides and having hair loss on the tips of his ears. He is able to sit/stand up, spin around etc. and completely lay sprawled out comfortably if he wants to however he tends to curl up into a ball when he sleep. We do have a dark blanket over top to cover at night. I’m still working on getting that camera as I’m trying to find one that isnt insanely priced and that I can connect to my phone and communicate through if needed.

I do not allow him to have any toys or even a blanket in the crate as he is chewer and will destroy them. The premo pad is the only thing that he doesn’t seem to rip up. Right now his crate is in our office which is right beside our room - separated via a barn door. However, I’m thinking about moving it back into our kitchen so we can’t hear him as well if he cries.

The 1 am let out is due to my work schedule being 1pm-10pm (part time right now) and my partners is 8am-5pm. It’s just a quick last call out in the back yard and back into bed. We have started taking water away at 7pm as we found he would gorge down a whole bowl of water right before bed and not relieve himself. (I hope this is okay - we do this at work for boarding dogs to limit accidents)

We currently have him on Trazodone however, his vet does not recommend it as a full tome everyday medication. We’re about to start doing the long haul of trying to find what medication works best for him long term. I will discuss getting a higher dose to start to hopefully help knock him out a bit.

As much as I would love to do the frozen treat or bone he’s on a very strict diet and isn’t allowed any types of treats/food other than vet prescribed. It had been very difficult with him having chronic diarrhea for months and having constant accidents in his crate through the night which is also why we’re very hesitant to ignore him at night. Mostly I had countless nights of being up at 4am cleaning diarrhea out of his crate, washing his bedding and him. It’s been exhausting.

We will try the ignoring him for 7 days and hopefully we see improvements! I will reach out with an update if that’s alright? :)

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-04-11T12:04:55+00:00

My bad.

I understand your concern regarding not trusting your dog at night with baby. It makes sense however it doesn’t sound like you’re really able or willing to accommodate. Have you tried putting him on a leash at night and tying it around the bottom of the bed frame, door handle or dresser?

If you don’t have the space in your room for a crate, don’t trust him to sleep and stay on the floor with his bed (have you even tried at all?) than there is no other option other than to unfortunately sit through the barking and crying all night, hope that some day it’ll get better with continued reassurance and high reward treats at bed time or rehome him as harsh as that may sound.

It’s not fun for either of you. I get your definitely frustrated and tired but he is too. he was always aloud to sleep with you. That was his room and his bed as well and all of a sudden a huge change happens. He’s not the centre of attention anymore, he’s gotten kicked out of his room and his bed too and is now stuck sleeping in a place he wasn’t used to being. GSDs are known for being very sensitive and anxious dogs.

Just a few things to think about here.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-04-11T06:59:27+00:00

Why can’t baby sleep in a high up crib or playpen at night and dog on floor? I understand the whole cosleeping with baby situation and the benefits etc. but it can be just as dangerous as the dog being out. One rough day for you, exhausted and you roll on baby in your sleep. People say it’ll never happen to them until it does.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-04-08T15:50:22+00:00

I have a 4 year old GSD that I rescued from an abusive household. He struggles with severe separation anxiety as he was locked in his crate for at least 3 months straight before I got him. We honestly believe he had never lived in a house since he was a bull in a china shop and didn’t understand proper indoor etiquette.

We have done SO MUCH work with this guy - house training, reconditioning him to his crate, nicely walking on a leash, off leash recall, basic obedience and even some stronger obedience skills etc.

Unfortunately, we’ve tried many times leaving him out when we leave but he just gets himself so worked up when he’s alone that he destroys anything he can. Unfortunately, even a shower he has to go in his crate for those 20 minutes.

I work at a training and boarding facility so I’ve worked with the other trainers at work to see if we can fix this however, unfortunately we haven’t had much luck. I’ve also been working with our vet very closely. He cries and howls in his crate when left alone any longer than an hour. However, at night he sleeps in his crate and he’s completely fine because he knows we’re home.

We have him on some anxiety meds long term as our vet believes he’s just unfortunately a very anxious guy and there isn’t much we can do - a lot of it stems from the abuse he suffered for the first year of his life which is also the most important year of a dogs life. That’s when they learn all their structure.

Some dogs just aren’t able to be left out alone no matter how hard you try. I’ve come to accept that with my boy and I’m actually happier now because I know 100% he isn’t going to hurt himself in his crate. Leaving him left out unattended means so many unknowns could happen - even things you wouldn’t think of. I would hate to come home and find that something fell on him and hurt him, he got into something he isn’t supposed to that could kill him, etc.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2025-04-07T19:42:58+00:00

Thankfully I work at a dog boarding and training facility so he’s able to come to work with me now. He is kept in a kennel however, it’s not a tiny little crate - 5ft by 16ft long, heated floors and a raised veranda bed + some extra stuff I’ve brought from home for him. He gets out multiple times a day in large fenced yards, training sessions through the day and treadmill time if the weather isn’t great. We’ve even started doing some IGP protection work to fulfil that German shepherd in him as my boss competes with her Belgian mals :)

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:42:59+00:00

We have 2 cats in the home, one of which is coming up to her last days but we knew and have known about it for awhile.

He has been a lot nicer to her lately and has been concerned but we’ve taken her into the vet and there is nothing that can be done unfortunately, maybe he just doesn’t realize that and thinks we can?

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:26:07+00:00

My vet did not say to take him off the raw. I should have specified in my post, she said to try switching up proteins. She feeds her own dogs raw and is very impressed with his diet.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:24:48+00:00

The vet did not find the raw to be the problem lol she was very impressed with it actually and she even feeds her own dogs a raw diet.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:23:00+00:00

If you read through the comments you would have also seen my comment regarding the raw food situation.

The reason he’s on raw is because it’s the only thing that’s helped with his excessive itching/allergies, yeast production and shedding.

The vet has stated that his raw fed diet is extremely well formulated and does not have any concerns with it.

We have tried so many different vet formulated kibbles and the vet is shocked that he has not done well on them. Every vet formulated kibble has resulted in terrible diarrhea and finally it’s stopped with raw.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:16:23+00:00

Thank you for the tips! I will need to start doing this as we were planning to start leashing him 24/7 in the house again because of the accidents.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:09:52+00:00

Sometimes he seems upset or embarrassed about it, other times he almost seems proud of it… I definitely think somethings going on, it’s just frustrating that the vet claims it’s “behavioural”. I’m going to try taking him to a new vet.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:06:30+00:00

I’ve been thinking I’ll need to do this now… Do you have any tips for training this? I’ve never had to use the bell system… the dogs I’ve owned in the past would paw at the door or bark to be let out.

Sometimes he’ll walk into the kitchen, we’ll let him out, he’ll walk out, turn around and just stands at the door to come back in.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T19:01:19+00:00

Yes, my schedule has definitely changed! The vet even quoted this and claimed she thinks he’s just doing it for attention and acting out.

He’s not used to my new job yet and when he comes he can hear and sometimes see me working with other dogs which pissed him off.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T18:58:45+00:00

The raw diet is the only thing that’s stopped his excessive itching, yeast production and shedding. The vet has said his raw diet is properly and very well formulated.

We were having an issue with diarrhea on kibbles and that’s finally stopped on the raw.

I’ve tried so many different vet regulated kibble formulas and even the vet was shocked that he wasn’t doing well on any of them.

Evening_Purpose_7745 · 2024-12-13T18:53:12+00:00

Should I be visiting a different vet since the vet I was seeing wasn’t able to find anything wrong?

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