Too much pee?

[piggl]

I could not decide whether I wanted to post this here or in behavior, so please feel free to change accordingly.

I know that no pee is a cause for concern but I am wondering about peeing too much.
My two boys get out in a run attached to their hutch everyday. Today they got a fresh picnic blanket (for the flooring), I want to change these as they are not the best but we are still looking through options, and they managed to produce 10 pees.
I cleaned up two during the day and tonight when I closed them down for the night I dried up 7 pee patches plus 1 in their plastic tunnel. This is quite unheard of, generally I find two patches on the blanket in one day. I can not say whether they are peeing inside their hutch on a normal day, but 10 pees in one day on the blanket is unheard of.
I also noticed their fleece has gotten damp very quickly, they got changed two days ago and their bed area is already soaking, I am going to have to change it tomorrow when it normally lasts the whole week.

They then came out for veggies (onto my lap, on a towel), which they do almost overnight so I can get some cuddles and feed them more closely. They were out for around 40 minutes, which usually consists of a couple poops from Reggie and maybe a pee from Reggie, so a single pee would not be particularly unusual. My older boy Winston does not pee or poop on me at all really, he is a fine gentleman.
Well tonight Winston peed on me twice and Reggie peed on me twice, which is really unheard of.

Their water bottle has been going down quite quick, perhaps a little more than usual in the past week, but it also leaks quite a bit so I was not too worried about this.
Weather changes may be at play, but our heatwave was last week and it has been a lot cooler this week with rain and thunder, but still quite warm. And I did not notice this in the height of the heatwave either.

So what I am wondering is, is this cause for concern health wise? If not, what would be?

 

[Wiebke]

I could not decide whether I wanted to post this here or in behavior, so please feel free to change accordingly.

I know that no pee is a cause for concern but I am wondering about peeing too much.
My two boys get out in a run attached to their hutch everyday. Today they got a fresh picnic blanket (for the flooring), I want to change these as they are not the best but we are still looking through options, and they managed to produce 10 pees.
I cleaned up two during the day and tonight when I closed them down for the night I dried up 7 pee patches plus 1 in their plastic tunnel. This is quite unheard of, generally I find two patches on the blanket in one day. I can not say whether they are peeing inside their hutch on a normal day, but 10 pees in one day on the blanket is unheard of.
I also noticed their fleece has gotten damp very quickly, they got changed two days ago and their bed area is already soaking, I am going to have to change it tomorrow when it normally lasts the whole week.

They then came out for veggies (onto my lap, on a towel), which they do almost overnight so I can get some cuddles and feed them more closely. They were out for around 40 minutes, which usually consists of a couple poops from Reggie and maybe a pee from Reggie, so a single pee would not be particularly unusual. My older boy Winston does not pee or poop on me at all really, he is a fine gentleman.
Well tonight Winston peed on me twice and Reggie peed on me twice, which is really unheard of.

Their water bottle has been going down quite quick, perhaps a little more than usual in the past week, but it also leaks quite a bit so I was not too worried about this.
Weather changes may be at play, but our heatwave was last week and it has been a lot cooler this week with rain and thunder, but still quite warm. And I did not notice this in the height of the heatwave either.

So what I am wondering is, is this cause for concern health wise? If not, what would be?

Hi

With the current up and down in the weather and it getting warmer and stickier again, piggies will drink a bit more. My water bottles have gone down a bit more over the last two days as well. Nothing to to worry about.

Before you worry about too much or two little peeing, always consider a weather change/onset of heating or air conditioning etc. first. Check whether the bottle is OK. If you suffer from anxiety, it is also important to know that the amount of water piggies drink in individually varies from nothing (apart the water they eat with their veg) to over a bottle in a day - and that is within normal parameters if they do it regularly.

You only have to worry if increased peeing is connected with a considerable weight loss (50g or more) or marked weight swings and no/very little peeing with considerable discomfort. As long as a piggy that behaves normally is eating normally, their drinking and hydration levels will be fine because the need to drink comes before the need to eat, so an eating piggy is usually also drinking as much as they individually need.

All About Drinking And Bottles

 

[piggl]

Hi

With the current up and down in the weather and it getting warmer and stickier again, piggies will drink a bit more. My water bottles have gone down a bit more over the last two days as well. Nothing to to worry about.

Before you worry about too much or two little peeing, always consider a weather change/onset of heating or air conditioning etc. first. Check whether the bottle is OK. If you suffer from anxiety, it is also important to know that the amount of water piggies drink in individually varies from nothing (apart the water they eat with their veg) to over a bottle in a day - and that is within normal parameters if they do it regularly.

You only have to worry if increased peeing is connected with a considerable weight loss (50g or more) or marked weight swings and no/very little peeing with considerable discomfort. As long as a piggy that behaves normally is eating normally, their drinking and hydration levels will be fine because the need to drink comes before the need to eat, so an eating piggy is usually also drinking as much as they individually need.

All About Drinking And Bottles

Great, the sudden increase now instead of in the height of the heatwave threw me off, but glad it doesn’t indicate anything more serious.

Both my boys are packing on the pounds (not actually, aside from my growing baby), so I shouldn’t think it is an issue as of now.

 

[Wiebke]

Great, the sudden increase now instead of in the height of the heatwave threw me off, but glad it doesn’t indicate anything more serious.

Both my boys are packing on the pounds (not actually, aside from my growing baby), so I shouldn’t think it is an issue as of now.

Increased drinking can be related to both changes towards high and very low humidity as much as heat in my own experience. But like with your own toilet trips, you have to trust in variation within a certain spectrum and not see your piggies as automata that always perform the same. Biology is much more adaptable than that. The same goes for changes in poos. It can all to easily become an obsession.