We have a 16 year old active and well exercised Pomeranian in otherwise
good
health. In the past year he often cannot make it through the night without
popping out of his basket and quietly peeing on the bedroom rug. Half the
time, he manages to make it to the door and scratch, and we let him out,
but
other times he doesn't appear to have time to express his wishes. Our only
solution so far is to hop-to, soak up the pee, and apply one of those
bio-digesters that is supposed to remove the scent.
One option that occurred to me was to put aluminum foil sheet around the
base of his basket, so the crinkly sound would awaken us. I tried it, and
it
wakes us up, but he has too many false alarms, where he just wants to
stretch and have a limber-up session.
How about reverting to crate training, and putting him in a large open top
cardboard box at night, on the assumption he will scratch when he has to
pee, rather than soil his nest?
I am interested in how some of you with older dogs handles this inevitable
issue with elderly or incontinent pets.
Roger
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