jackandh2o
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Our prayers to Abby and her family.
Ray and Janet
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Spike88
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wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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camping_again
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T18skyguy wrote:Congrats on your good news! At only 6 years of age she's having her share of trouble. Ive had(and lost) many pets over the years and I'm just thinking out loud. Kidney and bladder stones can be diet related. We had a cat with them and we were instructed to stop all routine diet and treats and go to Hills Prescription diet. I wonder if maybe the calcium in the yogurt might be giving her the stones. We went to Prescription diet and that was the end of our trouble. We were also giving bagged treats that you see in the foil pouch'es at the store but their full of junk and chemicals. Now we just give the Hills Science diet and we're doing fine. Good luck with your pretty sweetheart.
Abby has been on Science Diet since sometime in 2004...she was on the Canine c/d until this last bit of trouble...she's now on the u/d formula.
We just gave her the yogurt (about a tsp) with the antibiotics (she had a total of 9 weeks of antibiotics) since the antibiotics can also kill the good bacteria along with the bad...so she didn't eat that all that long...and in a very small amount.
Anything she gets for treats is the higher quality stuff ...salmon, carrots, green beans, & we found a sweet potato treat on Drs Foster & Smith that is only 2% protien...We were told that we needed to watch protien content with her. It all has to be LOW protien. She drinks filtered water...
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CA POPPY
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
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What an interesting breed mix Abby is! And she's just adorable. I hope she has many more healthy years ahead of her. Sometimes there is just a tiny abnormality or kink in the plumbing that causes repeated UTI's and it can be hard to locate. It sounds like you're doing all that can be done to help her. Best of luck to you and your furbaby.
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CatandJim
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I am pleased to read your update! Give Abby a hug from me! 
Cat
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Shields
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I can remember my mother giving me cranberry juice when I was a youngster for a UTI. Would this be something that would be helpful in this situation, if given in moderation, of course? Just a thought. I know that other human remedies seem to be ok for fur-babies. Just wondering.....
Gs
On edit....I forgot to congratulate you on the good news. That is wonderful.
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camping_again
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I was able to talk with her Vet yesterday & she will stay on the Canine u/d for awhile before switching back to the c/d. He approves of her salmon & sweet potato teats, the carrots & occassional green beans.
We will continue to monitor her closely & anytime she has a problem he wants to send a culture in before prescribing antibiotics. Doesn't take me long to say "there's something wrong with that dog!"...altho it takes the hubby another day or 2 to agree with me.
I have heard of giving dogs cranberry pills, a friend from another site did that & her dog started passing so many stones, she had baggies full of them & they ended up doing surgery to get the remaining ones.
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camping_again
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I have to call the Vet in the morning...
not sure what this is all about, he left a message on my machine today that he needs to talk to me because he got another report back today about her urine culture.
Tomorrow is Saturday, but I will call & see which Vet is there this weekend & hopefully it will be one of the two that we deal with so I can find out what's up now.
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