TLDR: she takes pills, goes out often and will soon have a doggy door, itll be easier to clean her soon, she gets beds but they stink and we’ve tried reusable pads but they dont clean well, she takes off diapers and im nervous to buy reusable ones online due to return policies
shes a medium/large dog and was spayed too early at 4 months old (not our fault) which led to her having spay incontinence, so her pee just comes out whenever shes relaxed. she takes a pill every day to help, but after a while of taking any specific pill it stops working as well and we switch to another kind which of course helps until it doesnt.
we take her on walks and let her outside often, but it still is a hindrance. thankfully, she will have a doggy door soon in a month so she will be able to let herself out, and she’s already figured out how to use the door when we took her to see the house the other day. we will also be able to hose her off and wash her in the backyard, so it’ll be much easier to clean her and much more often
her bed always ends up stinking like pee and it makes the whole room uninhabitable sometimes, so we have to get her a new bed every month because we have no way to clean the beds where we live currently (not really sure how to clean a large dog bed in general though) and we’ve tried using big waterproof reusable doggy pads to keep the pee off her bed but it ends up getting scrunched up and we have to put it back constantly, and when we wash them the smell doesnt come out completely and they feel greasy and gross still
we have diapers for her, but she usually ends up taking them off herself or acts crazy with the zoomies until they fall off or we take them off, and its not sustainable to buy diapers constantly, and we havent seen any reusable diapers her size in store and i havent gotten around to looking online + i worry about return policies if i had to ship used dog diapers back if the didn’t fit or she could get them off
what else can we do? what is there to try and do to make this more tolerable to live with? anyone recommend a brand of reusable diapers that dont come off easily and can be returned if they dont fit her right?
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