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My 1.5-year-old yorkie Bear has been acting very strange lately. He drinks very little to no water and has been peeing very frequently with only a few drops or none each time. When he urinates, it seems like he's in pain - he makes high pitch and tiny noise. Also, he would sit and shake for no reason with his head looking up, tongue out and mouth opened.

A week ago he vomited a bit in the morning, some yellow sticky stuff, we thought that was because he accidentally ate some chicken (our dinner), but this Monday he started exhibiting problems peeing, so we brought him to the vet and had his urine tested for UTI, they found no infection, but they found a lot of crystals in his urine. The next day we brought him back for an ultrasound and x-ray, they didn't see any stones in and around the bladder. The vet said there was some sand-like things in there but it could've been mucus and nothing really to worry about. He said if we really wanted to he could inject something in there and make that show up in the x-ray more clearly, but such procedure was rarely performed and he hadn't done one for years, and that he did not recommend doing it at this time. He told us to add water to his food, and feed him can or wet food. Bear was brought up mostly with fresh raw diet (beef, chicken, broccoli, yam, etc) and dry kibbles, he's been eating this dry food made with organic fish by Orijen about 70% of the times, and fresh raw food the rest. Today we got him new food by The Honest Kitchen, the dry powder stuff you have to add a lot of water to it, so at least he's getting more water from his food. Our vet told us to try food with more moisture for 2 weeks and report back, and he couldn't really find what was wrong with him.

When we walked him today he kept trying to pee, but only a drop or 2 would come out, and sometimes nothing. When he was a puppy he had similar problems peeing before, we tested him for UTI and found nothing, didn't even have to do an ultrasound or x-ray that time.

Another thing is that one of his ear has been half down, last time this happened his ear had little bit of infection, they prescribed him some antibiotic drops and it was fine and stood back up after about 2 weeks. He's playful and active and runs around at the parks, the beach, and at small dog happy hour. I don't think he's trying to pee so frequently to get praises or treats, and I really don't think he acts sick to get attention. Last couple of weeks when I worked from home he napped through most of the days.

One last thing to mention is that he has a umbilical cornea, 2 vets at our clinic said it's not a huge concern and some pets live with one their whole life. We plan to get it fixed up but we don't really want him to go under just for that.

Tonight he has been acting strange and it seems like he was in pain. (Now he seems fine though, he's taking a nap besides me). We're going to call the vet tomorrow to see what else we can do. We're really worried about him. I tried to spoon feed him water and he drank about 4 spoonful of them.

If you guys have any ideas what could be the problem, or if you have any tips on how to get him to drink more water, I'll really appreciate it! Thanks!