mikroma
Boxer Buddy
Hi - We have a year and a half old male boxer, Nero. We have been around the block with him and his pee issues and wanted to ask everyones opinion. Our over arching question: is this behavioral or medical? We don't even know any more.
He has accidents on and off all the time, since he has been a puppy. He had a poorly treated bladder infection (misdiagonsed by first vet, switched to better vet and he treated properly). He was treated poorly for the bladder infection and it lingered for 3 months. Bad vet kept telling us it was a urinary tract infection, one week of antibiotics, you need 6 weeks to get rid of a bladder infection. This happened when he was young, like 4 months old, until he was 7 months old. Did this do long term damage?
He had an undescended nut. The first vet (bad) fixed him and charged us $600+. I wonder, the stray ball was by his penis shaft, did they screw something up when he was fixed? The only made one small incision by his sack, how'd they fish that ball out? Just wondering?
Our new vet has said that he has seen crystals in his urine once, then tested again, none. How often can this reoccur? Nero improves on antibiotics for sure, and when he is off of them he has accidents - sometimes 2 a day, in the middle of the night, he can't hold it. On the antibiotics, he has held it for 6 hours, so we know he can. Just to be clear, he doesn't have accidents every night, it comes in waves. Fine for a few days, then accident days, it is random.
Our new vet is super nice, he felt so bad for us last time, he didn't charge us for the visit. The new vet has been great and at one point has done a test for everything, thyroid, kidney function, anything you could think of. This was 5 or 6 months ago. We are 5K+ deep in a year and a half old dog. What do you guys think? We are going out of our mind.
On a behavioral note, Nero has been a challenge to train. Is it possible he was not properly trained because of his early bladder issues? He had a ton of accidents. He is your typical loving boxer who has a streak of not wanting to listen.
Also, Nero is on a raw diet, and has great bowels, which took a while to discover the right diet for him. Could he be getting too much protein, veggies? Who knows?
Time to see a specialist?
He has accidents on and off all the time, since he has been a puppy. He had a poorly treated bladder infection (misdiagonsed by first vet, switched to better vet and he treated properly). He was treated poorly for the bladder infection and it lingered for 3 months. Bad vet kept telling us it was a urinary tract infection, one week of antibiotics, you need 6 weeks to get rid of a bladder infection. This happened when he was young, like 4 months old, until he was 7 months old. Did this do long term damage?
He had an undescended nut. The first vet (bad) fixed him and charged us $600+. I wonder, the stray ball was by his penis shaft, did they screw something up when he was fixed? The only made one small incision by his sack, how'd they fish that ball out? Just wondering?
Our new vet has said that he has seen crystals in his urine once, then tested again, none. How often can this reoccur? Nero improves on antibiotics for sure, and when he is off of them he has accidents - sometimes 2 a day, in the middle of the night, he can't hold it. On the antibiotics, he has held it for 6 hours, so we know he can. Just to be clear, he doesn't have accidents every night, it comes in waves. Fine for a few days, then accident days, it is random.
Our new vet is super nice, he felt so bad for us last time, he didn't charge us for the visit. The new vet has been great and at one point has done a test for everything, thyroid, kidney function, anything you could think of. This was 5 or 6 months ago. We are 5K+ deep in a year and a half old dog. What do you guys think? We are going out of our mind.
On a behavioral note, Nero has been a challenge to train. Is it possible he was not properly trained because of his early bladder issues? He had a ton of accidents. He is your typical loving boxer who has a streak of not wanting to listen.
Also, Nero is on a raw diet, and has great bowels, which took a while to discover the right diet for him. Could he be getting too much protein, veggies? Who knows?
Time to see a specialist?
