I just got my two, so I know nothing of your question. I just had to say what GLORIOUS dogs!
Tere, Mom to Little Bit (f/k/a Vegas) and Tommy (Can You See Me) Gizmo (psycho cat), and Boomer Rusty (f/k/a Nasty Red Dawg), Gracie, and George © Tere Fredericks (0 to 2009) "When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but so often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." (Helen Keller) --- On Sat, 1/17/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [cockapoo] Sleep incontinence? your experience. To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 7:04 PM Hi all. New poster here. We lost our small cockapoo around thanksgiving and are looking for a new pup. Our big male cockapoo needs a new playmate and we are debating between a male and a female. My main reservation about getting a female is sleep incontinence. We had a beloved female standard poodle (spayed) who developed sleep incontinence when she was about 9 years old. We eventually got a handle on it using phenylpropanalamine , but sometimes wonder if that's what killed her as she died suddenly just shy of age 13. Anyway, it was heartbreaking to us to have to kick her off our bed at night when she developed this problem; we like to sleep with the dogs. I called our vet recently to ask about the prevalence of sleep incontinence among older spayed female dogs. To my amazement, they stated that roughly 50% of older female spayed dogs get this! We have had male dogs ever since, but being that the right cockapoo is hard to find, we'd like to be open to a female as well. He seems to like to play with females better also. To those who have raised female cockapoos to the end of their full lives, how many of your dogs have had sleep incontinence? Thanks in advance. BTW, you can see our dogs playing at this link. The big apricot guy is our 8 y/o 45 lb cockapoo. The little guy is the one we recently lost. http://davidhennema n.smugmug. com/gallery/ 6651893_crKLQ/ 1/#424553362_ if88H-A-LB
