Are they kidney stones or bladder stones? It sounds like bladder stones. You need to have the vet check your baby's urine pH and more importantly analyze the stones to find out what kind they are. This is very important. If you do not find out and alter the diet appropriately, your baby will continue to make stones. This is extremely painful and if he has not peed in a long time, he *needs* to go the vet.
If he is not able to urinate, his bladder can rupture which can kill him.
This happened to my dog when he was a pup. He was straining to pee, but nothing would come out, so I took him to the vet and they placed a catheter to help him out. They sent him home, and he seemed fine, but later that evening, the problems started again and he was having a very hard time urinating, so I had to take him back in.
Stones are recurring, and that's why it's absolutely vital to find out what type of stones your dog is forming. Stones are also a symptom of liver shunt/MVD, so I would definitely have a bile acid test done as well, especially if these stones turn out to be ammonium biurate which are basically a by-product of liver problems.
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