kidney surgery for blockage

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A:Probably needs a shunt to open the tube up to let urine thru.

A:Please consider putting him on a canned food diet as he needs the extra moisture and the protein will acidify his urine to reduce the build up of stones. FOr more info from a vet who knows nutrition see www.catinfo.org edited to add: moisture and pH are the main culprits, so while I haven't had a blockage in any of my cats, I think the link I've pointed to you is valid. See what it says anyways!

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A:My family just lost our 4 yr old bulldog Feb. 8th this year with the same symptoms as mentioned. The first day when he got sick his eyes looked sunken then he vomited his stomach contents along with healthy bowel movement ( no diareha) and urinated in the house, I immeditally took him to the vet they ran bloodwork, gave him a shot of antibiotics, some iv fluids and told me to callback the next day for results on the bloodwork and sent us home. When I called the vet said everything was fine in the bloodwork and that maybe he just didn't feel good and monitor his water intake and if anything else happens to take him to the local animal hospitol. Well later that day he started vomiting and while vomiting he collapased and stopped breathing, I shook him and he came back to so my wife and I rushed him to the hospitol where again they did bloodwork (again showing nothing) had him housed in an oxygen kennel for 2 hours did 4 x-rays to make sure he didn't have pnumomea, iv fluids, etc and kept him overnight. When my son and I picked him up the next night it was as if he was never sick and told us he should be fine. The vet required him on a diet of boiled rice and hamburger along with a couple of prescriptions for anti-nausea medication, antibiotics and something else that I now can't remember, along with that I had to get Pepto and Pepcid to give him and also yogurt. He was doing fine for the full 3 days he was home and also the 4th morning of the day that he died on, he ate everything had normal bathroom movements, but when my oldest son came home from school that day he had found that he had past away. The food that I fed him with is Walmart brand Ol' Roy Kibbles Chunks 'n Chews dry dog food. So I don't know what to do he has since been cremated so I don't know if he had suffered any type of renal falure but I still have the food and thinking about having the food tested because if the dry food is a problem then I want to know and should have that info given out to the public. He was the second family member that we had lost in 3 years, our first bulldog lived to a grand age of 13 before developing cancer in his lower jaw and needed to be called home, but before he had moved on I felt our family would make that transition from our loss easier if we brought in another family member and it did, but with our latest setback there was noone there this time to help us move on because of the suddenness of what happened.