A little bit of history....we have a 21 week old male Portuguese Water Dog. He weighs about 27 lbs and was eating 2.5 cups of Blue Buffalo Basics a day. He seems to be growing and developing well.
We spoke to the breeder on Tuesday and she was surprised at how little, amount wise, that he was eating. She suggested upping his food intake to 4.5 cups a day, so yesterday we decided to up Gunner's food intake.
Obviously the increase in food led to an increase in poop, but that's to be expected.
The confusion comes from last night....When we went to put him in his crate for bed, he wouldn't go in (very unusual!). He went back downstairs to the door to go out. We let him out and he pooped (smart dog!) and peed. This was at 11:00. From 11:00 to 1:00 he was extremely restless; rolling around, getting up, etc. I finally decided to take him back out at 1:15 and he peed (nothing major). I gave him a few sips of water because he was doing a little panting and headed back upstairs. He went back in his crate but was still restless. I think maybe I got an hour or two of sleep. He started whining again around 4:30 (not unusual) so I just decided to get up. Needless to say when I got up and let him out of his crate his bedding was completely soaked; soaked as in dripping with pee. What the heck?!? He has NEVER had an accident in his house, EVER. During potty training he had a max of 5 accidents ever. Needless to say my husband and I are sooooooo confused. The only thing that changed was his food intake.
Any insight or help? We're thinking we increased the amount by too much, too fast and his body/digestive system just couldn't handle it?!
Please help?! I obviously don't want him to regress in his housebreaking, nor do I want to be starving my poor guy!!!
We spoke to the breeder on Tuesday and she was surprised at how little, amount wise, that he was eating. She suggested upping his food intake to 4.5 cups a day, so yesterday we decided to up Gunner's food intake.
Obviously the increase in food led to an increase in poop, but that's to be expected.
The confusion comes from last night....When we went to put him in his crate for bed, he wouldn't go in (very unusual!). He went back downstairs to the door to go out. We let him out and he pooped (smart dog!) and peed. This was at 11:00. From 11:00 to 1:00 he was extremely restless; rolling around, getting up, etc. I finally decided to take him back out at 1:15 and he peed (nothing major). I gave him a few sips of water because he was doing a little panting and headed back upstairs. He went back in his crate but was still restless. I think maybe I got an hour or two of sleep. He started whining again around 4:30 (not unusual) so I just decided to get up. Needless to say when I got up and let him out of his crate his bedding was completely soaked; soaked as in dripping with pee. What the heck?!? He has NEVER had an accident in his house, EVER. During potty training he had a max of 5 accidents ever. Needless to say my husband and I are sooooooo confused. The only thing that changed was his food intake.
Any insight or help? We're thinking we increased the amount by too much, too fast and his body/digestive system just couldn't handle it?!
Please help?! I obviously don't want him to regress in his housebreaking, nor do I want to be starving my poor guy!!!