Pet of the month for October goes to this beautiful girl Daisy.
Daisy came into the clinic as she has been urinating a lot more frequently then normal her owner also noticed some blood in the urine other than that Daisy was a bright happy girl. Dr Raj did a full exam of Daisy and didn’t find anything abnormal. He sent Daisy home with some antibiotics to treat the inappropriate urination. Dr Raj said that if Daisy didn’t improve then we would have to do some Urine Tests and an Abdominal Ultrasound.
A few days later her owner came in with a Urine sample for us to test. Dr Raj noticed that her urine was a pale pink colour as well as very diluted. We recommend for Daisy to come back in and have an Abdominal Ultrasound. Unfortunately, in the Abdominal Ultrasound we saw that poor Daisy had bladder stones these are rock like minerals that form in the urinary bladder.
Urinary stones are not only painful for our pets as they block the urine from being able to be passed, but they can also be life threatening as the toxic waste that is normally excreted in the urine can build up in the blood stream causing damage to the kidneys. There is also the potential that the bladder can rupture causing the urine to enter the abdominal cavity. Daisy went straight into surgery that day, where Dr Raj performed a cystotomy- this procedure involves making a surgical incision to her bladder and physically scooping the stones out with a spoon. Dr Raj then placed a urinary catheter through the bladder to make sure that there were no more stones blocking her urethra. She spent the afternoon with us while she recovered from her anaesthetic and then went home very happy.