When the Disease Has Been Treated But 
the Disease-Induced Behavior Doesn’t Stop

Sometimes the behavior needs to be addressed along with the disease itself.

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Your dog has started drinking more water and begun urinating in the house. You take her to the veterinarian for a workup and discover she has Cushing’s disease. The doctor prescribes the appropriate medication and you administer it faithfully, but your dog continues to urinate indoors, which she has not done since she was a puppy. Was the disease misdiagnosed? Is she on the wrong medication, or the wrong dose?

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