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Hi! I have 5 year old shi-tzu. It is girl and her name is MJ.First time it happened a month ago.She peed in her bed.Two weeks ago she pooped in her bad again and she stayed there. Today I put new clean pillow in her bed and awoke up at 5 a.m. from smell.Shee peed and pooped in her bed and was laying there in all this.There is no changes in our life but i have noticed that she has her period now.Could there be connection? But it 's never happened before!And when I have punished her and took away her bed, she was sleeping on the carpet in my bedroom and there was no accidents.
Take the dog to a veterinarian ASAP. She may have developed a uterine problem. Dogs need to be spayed and neutered at young ages in order to prevent all sorts of serious health problems that develop because of hormones. She may also be marking her "nest" as a result of a false pregnancy or a hormonal problem. If she has no physical abnormalities that the Veterinarian can find, allow her to resolve this heat cycle (six to eight weeks) and HAVE HER SPAYED.
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Jill Connor, Ph.D.
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30 years of solving serious behavior problems in domestic dogs; expert in dog to human aggression; Internet columnist for ThePetChannel.com for 5 years; former radio talk show host, WHPC.FM, Garden City, NY "Bite Back" (1995 through 2000). List owner, international animal behavior experts, K9Shrinks@egroups.com. Seminar leader: "Operant Conditioning and Learning"; "Aggression in The Domestic Dog"; "Solving Problem Behaviors" -- conducted for various training facilities on Long Island from 1993 through 2000. Former clinical director of "Behavioral Abnormalities" in conjunction with Mark Beckerman, DVM, Hempstead, New York.
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Member, APDT (UK); Psychologists in Ethical Treatment with Animals
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Harcourt Brace Learning Direct: "The Business of Dog Training"
"The Fail Safe Dog: Brain Training, not Pain Training"
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Ph.D., UC Berkeley
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Board of Directors: Northeast Dog Rescue Connection; The Dog Project; Sav-A-Dog Foundation; etc.
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