Pug With Suspected Bladder Stones Again a Year After Surgery
by Pete
(Peoria, IL)
Bladder stones often come back, and the stone type decides the best plan. If the first stones were analyzed, struvite can often be dissolved with a prescription diet, especially if an infection is treated at the same time. Oxalate stones can't be dissolved, but small ones can sometimes be flushed out or removed with a scope or laser instead of open surgery, at a referral or specialty center.
Ask your vet for a urine culture and X-rays or ultrasound. Feeding both pugs the prescription food, or feeding them separately, matters, because eating the other dog's dry food can undo the diet. Cranberry isn't proven to prevent stones, and concentrated extracts contain oxalate, so check with your vet before continuing it. If she strains or passes only drops of urine, see a vet immediately.
See bladder stones in dogs for removal options and prevention.
This is general information, not a diagnosis. Please follow your own vet's advice.
