Ingenuity required.

[JDog]

Our utility room was designed primarily around the dogs. It has space for the washing machine and drier hidden away in a cupboard, a seat for taking off boots and shoes, a long cupboard for jackets and a sink for plucking and gutting and for washing off boots and wellies.

 

However the main function is as a dog room. All has worked well until recently. The dogs have their own plastic baskets with a cushion base and I throw sheets over them and these are washed regularly. The problem is that Bounder the Border is now just a little bit incontinent and he leaks slightly in his bed. When he has done that he ousts Jasper from his bed and he leaks in that too.

 

Of course Jasper will not sleep in a bed in which another dog has peed and he has taken to lying on the cold tile floor which is not good. Other than separating the dogs which would be problematic is there another solution?

[archi]

Nappy

Sorry couldn't resist

[Stonepark]

Bunk beds?

[felly100]

What about crates for them?

[Dirty Harry]

Have a look at Hi K9 dog beds. They are raised off the floor and they come as standard with a mesh cover. The dog pee would run through and onto the floor so he may be less inclined to switch beds and/or the other dog might feel happier to stay on it. You can just hose them off if you need to. I've got a large one as we have cold stone floors and they really like it. You can get optional covers for it but we just got the vetbed one.

[fenboy]

I would crate one or both dogs .

[JDog]

Bounder duly caged. It makes sense as he sleeps twenty hours a day.

[ditchman]

i was going to say cage or raise Jaspers bed ....high off the floor so he can leap in it and the old terrier cant...................

[loriusgarrulus]

Your other possibility is:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GLENNDARCY-MALE-DOG-BELLY-BAND-BELT-MARKING-SIZES-XXS-TO-MEDIUM-LONG-/221366422430?var=&hash=item338a778b9e:m:mVMcwB5I5Ai15oDo4FEh17Q

 

We had this problem with our old border cross at night. In the house it wasn't a problem as we had hard floors throughout and a mop and bucket at the ready. The carpeted caravan was the problem. The belly bands solved this problem completely overnight and the one way liner on the pad kept him dry.

[JDog]

An update.

 

Caging Bounder does seem to have solved the problem and Jasper has no problems with going into his basket.

 

However I have learned some new Anglo Saxon words which Bounder utters as I put him in the cage. For such a well brought up dog he certainly knows some colourful language.

[robbiep]

We used a liquid treatment for our border collie when he started to 'leak' a bit at night. I seem to recall it was called propalin ?

 

There was a similar thread a year or two back that I posted the same answer to, and others had found it worked too.

Edited October 28, 2015 by robbiep

[PhilR]

Our 30 month old lab has a dribble problem. The vet had him in and examined him under anaesthetic and said he's got a weak sphincter between the bladder and uretha.

She prescribed Propalin and he's been on it a good 8 months now, the dosage has been reduced to the minimum to keep him dry and is given by dropper onto his food morning and night.

It isn't a case of leakage because he's desperate for a wee as he'd dribble after coming in from a walk when he wee'd aplenty.

 

With my prostate problem I've been tempted to get her to prescribe it for me too😊😊😊😊

[JDog]

Thanks for all of the helpful suggestions.

 

I have looked up Propalin and it seems to do the trick. If Bounder leaks in his own bed to such a degree I will see the vet about getting some.