If you're like me and your pet has suffered from dog incontinence, then it may be time for you to consider taking preventative measures.
Doing the right things will help your dog recover from incontinence and prevent it from recurring in the future.
In this article, you'll learn five essential prevention tips.
Tips for Preventing Dog Bladder Incontinence

• Make sure your dog is well-hydrated.
  Like us, dogs need plenty of water to prevent problems with their urinary tract and flush out toxins.
  Make sure your dog always has a bowl of fresh, clean water that he can drink from as needed.
  
• Dog Incontinence is a problem for older dogs because they tend to have loose sphincter muscles.
  Although there are medications to help this problem, they do have side effects that can be worse than the original problem.
  An effective alternative to prescription drugs are homeopathic remedies that not only work to fix the problem and heal it for good, but do so without side effects.
  
• Dog bladder incontinence can be due to behavioral issues.
  For instance, if your dog is very territorial, he may urinate in inappropriate places.
  He may also urinate because of fear, excitement or to show submission to another dog or person.
  In this case, you will need to train your dog to go only in certain places and to stop showing his emotions by urinating.
  
• When the urethra is blocked with a bladder stone or struvite crystal, this can also cause incontinence.
  The stone or crystal prevents urination making it impossible (and painful) for dog to empty his bladder completely.
  In addition to creating infections, this can cause bladder to leak around the sides of the blockage.
  Homeopathic remedies work wonders to dissolve these crystals and do so without side effects.
  
• Another cause of dog incontinence is recurring bladder infections that can stretch the bladder and lead to scarring.
  Infections create a strong need to urinate.
  If your dog has an infection, attend to it immediately because infections only worsen with time and can lead to serious complications.
  Again, homeopathic remedies are helpful because they eliminate the infection, while healing and soothing the bladder tissues.
  

If, like me, you are tired of having to take your dog to the vet continuously for bladder problems that do not seem to resolve themselves (antibiotics do not always clear up the problem and do not heal the condition that caused it in the first place), then you may want to consider a prevention program.
After my pet's last bout of dog bladder incontinence, I decided to try one of the homeopathic remedies that I had heard so much about.
Now, every day, I sprinkle some granules into my dog's mouth (which dissolve on contact with his saliva) and he hasn't had a urinary problem since.
Now, my dog is happy and healthy and we no longer need to make trips to the vet for a recurring issue.
In fact, I wish I had started this treatment when he had his first infection.
Before giving your dog a homeopathic remedy, make sure to do your research, as some are much more effective than others.