Nooka can go for ages without peeing. She goes out before we go to bed, but doesn't usually pee then to be honest! She'll probably have her last pee after tea, so around 7pm usually, then will go until morning without having a pee, sometimes even mid-morning as she doesn't usually pee when I let her out before work in the early morning, but will wait until whoever gets up to do the chickens and toilet down the field.
Fly on the other hand pees every time he goes outside, but he is a lurcher with a skinny waist so I think he has a small bladder too! Plus he's a boy and likes to have a sniff and pee up things.

 

My two dogs go out about 10.30 every night but Kita (bitch Spinone) often doesn't bother to pee and comes straight back in. So she goes from about 7pm to 8am easily.
Boz, being male always has a wee.

 

Normally around 10/11pm is bedtime wees and then they wait til 8-10am in the morning when we get up and let them outside.

 

Jack eats his handful of kibble at around 7.30pm, followed by a trip to the garden and rarely asks to go out until he gets up in the morning with me, around 6.30am.

 

They all go out for a last wee at around 11pm and sleep through till a first wee at around 7am. I'm not sure they actually want either tbh but they get them regardless. I do sometimes have to encourage them to go outside as left to their own devices they wouldn't bother.My females have cast iron bladders but the boys not so much but they probably go just to please me and can always squeeze a few drops out.

 

One of the things I love and loath about my two is their cast iron bladders.
Maude especially will often go out in the morning and not pee and regularly holds her bladder for 16 hours. It drives me nuts and I worry about UTIs every time she does it.
On the plus side, they can both go hours without asking to go out so on those days we want a lay in or an early night, they don't fuss about it.

I honestly think that us having a very erratic schedule helps here. Its obviously different with puppies where regular schedules are more important but I love the fact that neither of my dogs will demand a walk, their dinner, a play etc because they have no preconceived notions as to when such things should happen.

 

The longest Bonnie has ever gone is 10 hours but I think she could probably last longer - she rarely seems that interested in 'going' first thing and does a token squat because its expected of her. I always put her out last thing at night though, because very rarely she does ask to go out early in the morning and I'd be really cross with myself if I had to get up at 4 because I hadn't bothered putting her out at bedtime!

 

Dillon an goes from 10pm until 9am the next morning, longer if I don't push him outside and then he has to think about it.

 

Probably a relic of looking after fosters who needed to be house trained/re-trained but we take the dogs outside at 10 pm and will not let them back in until they have had a wee, then they are put outside at 7 am the next morning. If we have had fireworks, Sophie is too nervous to wee in the evening and is allowed to go to bed anyway as an exception and seems to last quite happily until 7 am. I do not usually know when she last relieved herself the day before so it could be a very long time.

 

I dont think my dogs could last 16 or 17 hours. They go out for last wees at 9pm then I let them out before work between 05:30 and 7am.

 

I don't think mine could either. They go out for last wees/poos just before 11.00pm and then after they have had their breakfast at about 10 past 7.00.

 

Just thought when we have snow, I think he'd last all day

 

10 is bedtime wees then out at 9 / 9:30 in the morning but Bungo could hold on longer, he is never in any rush to get out in the morning.

 

We let our two out for a last wee about 11pm ish and then up in the morning about 7:30am. However, we have taught both ours to wee on cue so not sure if they are just humouring us or whether they actually need to go. Neither of them wake us up in the night/morning for a wee and could probably last longer if left. Our old dog had a cast iron bladder - i think she would have held it all day if it was raining!

Nova has realised on a walk that if there's something particularly interesting that she wants to sniff that if she squats and pretends to wee, she'll get a longer sniff. Sneaky!

 

We let our two out for a last wee about 11pm ish and then up in the morning about 7:30am. However, we have taught both ours to wee on cue so not sure if they are just humouring us or whether they actually need to go. Neither of them wake us up in the night/morning for a wee and could probably last longer if left. Our old dog had a cast iron bladder - i think she would have held it all day if it was raining!

Nova has realised on a walk that if there's something particularly interesting that she wants to sniff that if she squats and pretends to wee, she'll get a longer sniff. Sneaky!

Mine does this too! Especially if she is about to go back on the lead to come home - it's 'wait, I'm really sniffing because I'm desperate to go' even though she's been loads on her walk - I think she keeps a little bit in reserve just for this!

 

Timber has last weewees around 9.30 to 10.00. We would go for 10.00 but he often pesters us for earlier so he can settle to bed. In the morning he prefers to lie in until around 10.00. So 12 hours is pretty normal (lucky so-and-so). Occasionally he will wake us overnight to go out but not often.

 

I pop her in the garden at about midnight. She does another wee then and that's her done then til about 10am the next day

same with mine ( female staffie )

However the past 2 nights in a row, she has not peed in the garden at midnight. And neither has she had me up. So she has gone from 7pm ish through to about 10am without having a wee.

same again with mine sometimes .. although rarely ..
i'd prefer that she does wee at the midnight outing

i do get the impression she likes to save some if possible
so she can do her mark-the-spot thing the next time she's out and about ..

although sometimes she doesn't wee at her 10am foray ..
holds it 'till about midday .. when she goes to a particular wooded area ..
then squats 'n wees for seemingly a very long time ..

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she sometimes gets cranberries with her food
( to guard against UTIs hopefully .. 7 old aprox. years and no problems there )
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Mine get a last thing walk around 9 and always have a wee, often obviously bursting. They are usually let out about 7.30 but they sometimes hold on till they are taken out properly a bit later.

 

Thanks everyone! Seems it is pretty typical to hold out for hours on end at night then! Wish i could!

 

Mine probably toilet at about 11pm at latest in the evening, then I will get woken up by a bark at about 5am and three of them will go out and wee and then go back to bed until I get up at 7am. it does actually help me because I can take my thyroid tablet then.They are usually a bit more considerate on the weekend and will go back to bed until after 8am until their tummies start rumbling and Sparkle insists on having her breakfast.

 

If it's raining my parents whippets can hold on FOREVER. Sometimes you have to force them outside for them to wee, otherwise they'd hold for hours and hours.

Teds is similar but I don't think he can last quite as long! If it's raining he hates going outside. He normally gets let out at 10pm for his last wees and then I'm up at 6-6.30 in the morning. Though he's never desperate so I'm sure he could last for longer. I always give him opportunities throughout the day (as he was an ex-street dog, he did think he could just wee anywhere at first) but sometimes he knows what I want from him, but he doesn't actually need a wee, so he just cocks his leg up something and looks at me (not actually weeing) as if to say 'look mum, I'm doing it! Now give us a treat'

 

When I go to work Alfie is in his (extra large) crate from 7.30pm til 8.30am and I cant remember the last time he had to use the puppy pad in there, he prefers to wait and liberally mark the garden when he gets out!LOL
The other three have puppy pads by the back door but they hardly use them overnight either. I suppose if you think about it dogs probably dont need to pee alot, I mean generally they arent big drinkers are they?

 

I take Cad out for a pee before I go to bed, usually about 11pm but sometimes earlier or later. He knows me taking him out vs him asking to go out means it's the last peeing before he goes in his crate so always does something. He can then usually last till 8-11am.

(Don't ask about poos though, he usually needs one of them at 6am)

 

Duch holds for 8 hours and she drinks just before going to bed too so she has the bladder of an oxen! She goes out for a pee just before we go to bed.

 

I honestly wouldn't know. Zara and Oscar don't live like the vast majority of dogs. They have 24/7 free roam of the house and their enclosure and can come and go as they please.

 

As Brecon is only just 9 months I haven't tested him beyond 8 hours, but my instinct is that he could last a lot longer. Fortunately, as he hates rain, there is a part of the garden he can access to wee while remaining under cover. I'm pretty sure that, if this was not the case, he would refuse to wee when it rains!

 

All my adult dogs can generally hold their wee for as long as they need - and sometimes that's choosing to have their last wee when we are in the garden maybe at 7pm and not go again until morning. I prefer them to go later though.

I do find it's dependent on their relationship with drinking though. My young Lab lovers water (she'd swim in the drinking bowl if she could) and as a result drinks for pleasure and needs to wee more often as a result. Some of mine only drink when thirsty which means they tend to wee less - although this time of year I am encouraging the drinking (ice cubes/flavoured water/hose pipe play etc) to keep up their intake. (So more wee ).

J