Just a little history, 4 year old male, intact(dont get mad), working gsd, very freindly loves everyone but trained as well. He does not bark for anything in my house at all.. My 5 yr old male does the barking(alpha over the 4 yr old kinda thing) so 4yr old doesnt bark unless there is some sort of trouble or a kid is doing somethig in that room he/she shouldnt be. He has been known to have UTI's and whines a certain way to go out, we know the whine means he is in pain or thought it was that. He whines and then we take him out at like what ever hour he does it. He doesnt fuss or make a mess in his cage or cause any problems or anything you could think of. HE is the PERFECT dog I swear, (not like my other one
lol). OK well he is in the mudroom where many years ago we had a Dalmation in there and he chewed up the wall it was a couple years later we figured it was mice he heard and went nuts. It was the only thing that made sense at the time. Well Sgt. (his name) whined the other day at about 1am 
I thought UTI at first but he didnt need to go out, i thought he was thirsty so forced water on his(he isnt a great drinker to begin with but I make him) that didnt work. I had to sleep on teh couch inthe next room to yell at him to shut the hell up(i was upset at this point) and he shut up and didnt say another sound at all. Well the next night he did the same thing so i figured let me yell first and seeif he stops if he truely has to go out he'll whine the rest of the night. So i yelled to stop(a command I use and yelled it to him) and he shut up. NOthing more was done.
But the next night he did the same thing and I yelled it and then yelled it again then had to come out into the room and tell him quiet he shut up and that was it. I know for a fact that if that dog had to go he wouldnt have shut up no matter how much alpha he knows I am.
So again he did it last night, i took him out late and he didnt need to go so i figured it's not uti but what the heck is it! He is scheduled next week for his routine yearly with a temporary vet who is taking over for the vet whos son passed away. The older vet is doing sort of ok but very upset still over the loss of his son. I never met the new dr. but the Tech I know has been around for years(30 yrs tech) and I trust her and will be with her as well.
Could this be that the mice are in the basement again?
We have a cat we'll call him Fred, he is a stray, I never knew he lived under my deck before this winter. We always saw him but thought he wa a female pregnant. Big mouser and I never fed it at all. I just thought it the neighbors cat that came over here. But he isnt a female he is a big old tomcat and healthy i might add. I dont bother him and he doesnt bother us. I found out he lived under the porch wehn i saw footprints in the snow and every morning at 8am he goes and he comes back later. he cant get into the house from tehre but i bet the mice do and maybe he drives the dog nuts. Like it use to with the dalmation.
I have no clue, maybe i should put the cage into the kitchen and see if he does it tonight. I'm waiting for morning to get urine sample to bring over to vet's office so they can run a UA and send it outlab as well. I would rather be safe than sorry.
Anyone had this problem with mice driving dog nuts? I feel dumb but traps arent keeping them out of the basement cuz of the cold and I do see the cat catching them. There is just so many out there. This is farmland so we always get it but i think maybe this year there are so many that the dog can hear them. jeez i dont know.
dang mice if it is them. The new vet wont be able to see him until next saturday(appt already made for sure), so I still have to get the urine sample in there to be sent outlab/ and inlab. they did say if he does have a uti the new vet will see him asap. I told them that is fine with me because if he does and she wont, I'll go somewhere else for this. I sure hope it isnt a UTI , his urine doesnt smell skunky(it does when he has one, but have no idea why). But doesnt mean he doesnt have one.