Bladder Stones in older Yorkie My Yorkie is 13 1/2 years old. He is having accidents in my house. An ultrasound showed that he has bladder stones. Has anyone had this surgery done on their Yorkie? If so, how old was your dog? What was the recuperation time? It is hard determining if the stones are making him have accidents or if it his age. I am having a hard time making the decision for surgery, because of his age. (Mainly putting him through the trauma of the surgery.) He his still active and has energy. Most people cannot believe that he is 13. It would be helpful hearing from others . Thanks! |
WOW! I'm so sorry to hear this.:( I've never had a yorkie with it but I did have the chance to watch this surgery done when I was in high school on a smaller dog. The stone was the size of an egg and the dog did wonderfully. Can't remember the age, however. Whatever you decide, best of luck to you and your furbaby! |
Remmy has had Stones Remmy is only 3 years old and just had bladder surgery back in April. According to my vet if I did not have the surgery more than likely a stone could get lodged in his uretha. If this is to happen he could die. There are foods that you can feed yorkies that is supposed to disolve stones. However it only works on certain stones. And there is not a way to know what kind of stones your baby has unless you take them out and have them analyzied at a lab. I would talk to you vet about what options you have. Remmy would go outside and use the bathroom and as soon as we got back inside he wanted to go out again. Remmy went four months before they finally found the stones. After surgery it took about a 3 weeks and he was back to normal. |
thanks for your replies My dog is on special food to dissove the stones. He has been on it for 6 weeks. He is actually at the vet right now getting another ultrasound to see if the food is working. I guess I will make my decision after the results. Thanks again! |
My mom's yorkie has had this surgery just this year and he recovered wonderfully. It is very hard to do but we are glad she did it. He is on a special prescription dog food to help him not get them again. It is actually a very common condition among small breed dogs. |
How old was your Mom's Yorkie? The ultrasound results showed no change in the size of the stones since being on the special food for 6 weeks. Will talk to the vet on Monday about my options. |
Benson is in surgery now for bladder stones. The dr. said he had ten of them he was carrying around. He never cried or whimpered. I'm sure it hurt him. Hoping he'll be ok after surgery. |
My Heidi started having accidents in her sleep at night and started having to go out alot during the day when I took her to the vet. She had the surgery for her bladder stones when she was 13 yrs old and did great. She was put on a special food after that but was diagnosed with renal failure when she was 14 1/2 yrs and was changed to the Hill's KD. When she was about 16 she would occassionally have accidents in the day and very rarely in her sleep but this was because she was on sub-q fluids every day- I just put her in diapers at that point and she lived to be 18 yrs old. |
Benson's surgery went well. He looked nothing short of lupy yesterday, but is doing better today. He's sleeping alot, piddling (which he never does) and overall seems to be feeling better today. They sent his stones off to a lab and when the results come back they'll put him on a special diet. He doesn't seem to want to eat right now but is drinking plenty of fluids. When I went to pick him up the vet showed me some of the stones they took out of him. His poor little bladder was full of them and blood. They had sharp little things on them and were cutting on his bladder. The vet said we were lucky to notice and get him in. She's also put him on a diet, he's back up to 17 lbs. |
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Wow, your post brings back some painful memories with the experience one of my Yorkies had with bladder stones. He ended up needing 3 bladder stone removal surgeries along with another that was pretty radical. The last surgery he had, the vet basically re-routed his urninary system so HE could urninate like a girl. Yes, you read that correctly. He no longer had any real function of his penis and the doctor created an opening so he could go like a girl because the stones and the acidic crystals would become lodged in the curve of the penis bone. We thought if the urinary system was straight so to speak, the stones and sticky acidic crystals would be able to pass easier - NOPE, didnt work. I ended up taking my beloved 7 yr old Yorkie to Texas A&M for further test. I was told his LIVER was all shot to hell and was not filtering the blood before it went on the the bladder - soemthing to that effect. I was told there was nothing else that could be done and we had to have him put down. It was the most painful thing I ever had to do in my entire life. We tried it all, diet, meds, surgeries and nothing worked. Its hard for me to think about all the things that poor baby was put thru in order to save him. I tired to save that dog for 3 years and spent $10,000 doing it. I would have spent another 10,000 if I knew it would have allowed him to live longer. After much research, I think my local vet was just treating the symptoms and not the problem. I think my dog had a shunt and if it was considered in the beginning, things might have been differnt. |
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