Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Tipper's Bladder

So we've got a dog at the shelter, been acting like she's had a UTI. Urine was... interesting colored... to say the least. Lots of blood and stuff, but no crystals. Put her on Baytril for two weeks with no improvement whatsoever. Time for x-rays.

And holy cow, it's no wonder the poor dog is peeing blood. And no antibiotic is gonna fix THIS:

So she goes in for surgery Wed to get that taken care of. For reference, this is a 113 pound dog. For those who don't know what you're looking at, those big white spots are stones in the bladder. That's one stone the size of an orange, one the size of a lemon, and a whole double fistfull of gravel sized stones.