I’ve posted a case like this in the past, but it never ceases to amaze me. This dog doesn’t look like she feels very happy, and that’s accurate. “She doesn’t feel very good. She has to go out a lot, and she’s drinking a lot of water. I think I saw some blood in her […]
Category Archives: Urology
This is Missy May. She's a pretty good little dog, pretty healthy aside from an occasional mild allergic flare-up. She came in yesterday because of urinary problems. She had been squatting and straining pretty frequently for the last couple of weeks, and now she has had some "accidents" in the house. Her owner very thoughtfully […]
This is Sinatra. The shelter folks gave him that name because of his “Ol’ Blue Eyes”. Those eyes are pretty droopy here, as he is still suffering from a combination of light sedation, and heavy uremia [waste building up in the bloodstream when the kidneys cannot get rid of it]. He had been straining to […]
Old Yeller Alert A while back, I posted about Curly Sue having blood in her urine. She turned out to have a bleeding disorder instead of a urinary problem. Last week, she developed a urinary problem. One day my receptionist asked me what the dose would be for a mild laxative. "They say that Curly […]
Of course, I really should say "Cystic Calculi", but does that communicate as well as "bladder stones"? These babies weigh 8 grams apiece and they’re bigger than a pair of dice. Too bad they only have 5 sides each. Of course, even if you painted numbers on them, it would take a while before they […]
When someone calls and says that their dog or cat is "constipated", we don’t just automatically hand out a list of laxatives over the phone. We always ask "What is your pet actually doing? Passing small hard stools? Squatting and straining a lot?" It is usually the latter. This is often the outward appearance of […]