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Originally Posted by barfooj

Hi, I am a new member of this site and am wanting some advice from other Yorkie owners. My Maxi is 8 years old (male) and started to have recurrent bladder infections around November 2013. He was treated with antibiotics that worked but within 3 weeks of finishing antibiotics, the symptoms e.g. bed wetting, dripping urine and difficulties when urinating, started again. We extended length of antibiotics but nothing worked. We had to have scans etc and the vet said it was a tumour and they would have to look at his bladder to take a biopsy. We were devastated and only agreed as the vet said that without treatment he would only have 3 months left. After the operation and being neutered, after a month, the incontinence and infection stopped, however the biopsy took several weeks to come back as the vet stated they disagreed with results so they sent it back for a further look. The diagnosis was polypoid cystitis not cancer. We were very relieved but very angry with the vet. The vet said the bladder is very badly infected and the 'tumour' they saw was ' infected skin'! Anyway, they wanted to refer to a specialist for further investigations but we asked to keep him on long term antibiotics as he was well and back to normal. They stopped antibiotics after 6 weeks but within days he wet his bed and was drinking excessively and urinating 'rivers'. Vets took bloods and urine samples but nothing showed up. They agreed to keep him on antibiotics for a further 3 months. They have no idea what is causing the excessive drinking and have checked for diabetes. Now he is back on antibiotics, the drinking has halved but we have to watch what he drinks as he will drink as much as we give him. My questions are, has anyone experienced this before and also what is the usual amount that a Yorkie should drink?
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This is definitely a case for an internal medicine specialist. You can look at the ACVIM directory online and find an ACVIM (internal medicine) diplomat in your area. Best wishes.