Peeing

[Alex999]

I wonder if anyone can give me some advise. I have a four year old cob who's never been shy about peeing under saddle. My problem is, he does up to 4 pees in a hack which are about 1.5 to 2 hours long (the hack are!!! :) ) His pee isn't unusually dark, nor is it cloudy. The first pee he does has quite a lot of pressure, after the first one the pressure kind of gets less.
Has he just got a weak bladder, or is this something I have to worry about? I would be very grateful for any advise. Thank you

[becs]

Interested too see what replies you get...

I wonder... do horses wee as territory marking, like other animals do? Could he smell others as you hack and want to say "hey guys, this is my patch!"???

[Iron Maiden]

Don't know whether this amount of peeing could be an indication of any particular ailment, but I've known a few geldings who pee for England. I was at a ode with my friend today & her horse did a pee before dressage, a pee before sj & another pee before xc! He always seems to have a pee just before he jumps xc, I think he likes to lighten the load a bit. By contrast, my old cob seemed to be a bit self-conscious about peeing & if he went to a show, he would often go the whole day without a pee then do Niagara Falls as soon as he set foot in his stable!

I'm also interested to see if anyone has any peeing horse insights...

[Jessey]

Interesting :p could it perhaps be to do with the combination of his conformation and his saddle sitting on his bladder a bit causing him to think he needs to pee loads?
Unless there is odd colouring/small/leaking I wouldn't be overly concerned :p