As you all know Peppa has what is at this stage suspected to be Juvenile incontinence Syndrome which with her seems to be mainly when she is relaxed or asleep.
What this means is as soon as she relaxes to lie down and play either a toy, chew a chew or just chill out she starts to leak urine and as she is getting bigger we can smell it the instant it starts to happen.
When she is asleep she leaks all the time and soaks her bedding and of course it has to be washed, you cannot always make her go in her own bed for a snooze she may decide she wants to snuggle up to one of the others and so their bedding needs washing.
My dogs all have a cushion or bed with a piece of vet bed on the top, I have had to put all the cushions away as the liners/fillers are unwashable and so all the dogs are now just on vet bed apart from when puppy is crated for the night and then they can have their cushions back.
The smell believe me is awful, the puppy pads go in the dustbin and as we are on 2 weekly collections the smell in the bin is awful and so we are going to bag them and take them to the tip.
The washing machine literally never stops, the amount of soap powder used is amazing, rainy days mean the dryer goes non stop because there are the towels used to dry her, the towels for your knee in case she wants a cuddle. Baby wet wipes we seem to go through in amazing quantities as I cannot keep washing her she will be sore and so I have found a freshen up with wet wipes cleans her and makes the smell less pungent.
Just because she has this problem she cannot be treated in any way different to any other pup, it is not her fault and she does not know she is doing it, and so we wash, mop, spray, wash and wash and try to give her all the experiences you would any other puppy.
On a morning she is soaking, I never leave her overnight longer than 6 hours. We did consider getting up in the middle of the night to let her out to toilet but the problem is her bladder is empty when she wakes up and so we would be disturbing her for nothing and could get her into a pattern undesirable in the future.
My other concern is I am aware that she leaks urine all the time she is sleeping and I do not want her to become de-hydrated, she is always incredibly thirsty when she wakes up and so I have taken to leaving her a drink in her crate with her.
I am incredibly thankful it is not the middle of winter with this amount of washing
This small girl has certainly made a massive impact on our lives.
Ky
