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Originally Posted by stbell

Hi Gang,
Sorry it took me awhile to get back to you. The vet was suppose to call me on Wed and didn't call with Tuck's urine results until late Thursday. He was speaking to a specialist about tuck and they confirmed that Tuck has Protein Losing nephropathy. I suspected that all along so i put Tuck on a high protein, no fat diet last week. He is doing really well. His stomach is gone down thanks to florosimide, I gave him that 10mg once every three days. I purchased yucca root, a natural water pill, and baby vitamins and started him on all of that. He ate fish and chicken mixed with rice, his meds and fish oil yesterday 5 times. I was tooo excited. He even played tug of war with his brother riley (cairn terrier) and he hasn't been shaking for the past couple of days. He only weighs 5.2lbs so we rigged up a scale so we could weigh him regularily. I am very pleased with his progress thus far. My wife and son are estactic! We are taking this one day at a time. The vet said the Wheaton Terriers are known for this disease so how Tuck got it is a mystery. Thanks so much for all your prayers. Your support is so appreciated. We are taking tuck in for blood work next week. Will keep you posted. The vet said we may be able to manage this if we caught it early! Thank god for second,third and fourth opinions eh!!

Thanks for posting this update and so glad you were able to get a diagnosis and also that there is good progress with your pup. Yea!