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Old dog is getting old
Nov. 5th, 2019 04:01 pmSomehow forgot to mention this - our dog Holly has been sick with some kind of kidney condition.
We noticed she was drinking a lot and peeing a lot. The vet measured some minor weight loss, and she wasn't eating regularly. So far we've done a couple urine samples and one ultrasound, which have been not particularly conclusive. We've switched her to a special kidney diet(*) and started her on a nighttime med per the vet's prescription.
Since nothing has been definitive about what has caused the problems the vet wants to do a biopsy, which is going to be expensive. The new diet (which she loves) and med seem to have improved things somewhat but she's still guzzling water and peeing a lot. She put the weight back on quickly, though. She went through a couple days of accidents on her bed so we've switched to twice-daily dog walks when we're all out and to more frequent walks when we're home and that seems to have fixed the accidents.
She's still our slightly crazy protective mutt and we love her. But she's getting to be an old lady dog and facing some of the ailments that old lady dogs face. Part of me is convinced she won't be around much longer so I make sure to crawl into her crate with her every day and have snuggles and scritches. Sometimes she still wants to play, but most of the time she just comes by to get her petting and then go back to lying down again.
(*) Anyone relatively local to us who wants an unopened bag of dog food let me know. We'd just gotten a new bag when we had to switch her. The dog food company refunded our money but doesn't want the food back so we need to find a good home for it.
We noticed she was drinking a lot and peeing a lot. The vet measured some minor weight loss, and she wasn't eating regularly. So far we've done a couple urine samples and one ultrasound, which have been not particularly conclusive. We've switched her to a special kidney diet(*) and started her on a nighttime med per the vet's prescription.
Since nothing has been definitive about what has caused the problems the vet wants to do a biopsy, which is going to be expensive. The new diet (which she loves) and med seem to have improved things somewhat but she's still guzzling water and peeing a lot. She put the weight back on quickly, though. She went through a couple days of accidents on her bed so we've switched to twice-daily dog walks when we're all out and to more frequent walks when we're home and that seems to have fixed the accidents.
She's still our slightly crazy protective mutt and we love her. But she's getting to be an old lady dog and facing some of the ailments that old lady dogs face. Part of me is convinced she won't be around much longer so I make sure to crawl into her crate with her every day and have snuggles and scritches. Sometimes she still wants to play, but most of the time she just comes by to get her petting and then go back to lying down again.
(*) Anyone relatively local to us who wants an unopened bag of dog food let me know. We'd just gotten a new bag when we had to switch her. The dog food company refunded our money but doesn't want the food back so we need to find a good home for it.
