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My dog is incontinent, but the vet found nothing wrong. Why?

Updated on September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Australian Cattle Dog | Female | spayed | 3 years and 7 months old | 27 lbs

My 3 year old blue heeler Cali has recently started having accidents. Dribbling. Peeing while asleep and just peeing in the house. She use to hold her pee for hours and bark to let me know. We have gone to the vet and they did x rays, blood test, urinalysis and neurological exam all 100% normal and healthy. They put her on incontinent meds (proin) just to see if thats it and they haven't helped at all (its been 3 weeks). Please what is wrong with my dog. What else could it possibly be.

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Answered By Linda G, MS, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on January 27th, 2020

Hello. I am so sorry that no one has addressed your question earlier. Your veterinarians have done an excellent work-up to rule out any underlying conditions or issues so far, but have they been able to rule out the possibility that Cali has ectopic ureters or something else congenital like urethral hypoplasia or just plain congenital incontinence? Medically, you might discuss the use of Incurin ( estriol ) either by itself or added to the Proin. If there is no response to either/both of these together, there is some literature that indicates that GnRH ( gonadotropin releasing hormone ) may be effective. If Cali remains medically unresponsive, then there is a surgical procedure to implant a hydraulic urethral occluder. Your veterinarian will probably not be able to do this, but if you are near a veterinary teaching hospital, that would be a good place to have this done. Your veterinarian can research this for you. Anyway, I hope I have supplied a little more information that you can now discuss with your veterinarian. Thanks for using Petco Pet Education Center, formerly Petcoach.

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