Special Diet Dog Food - Do You Make Your Own?
Our three-year old, 20 pound mini Schnauzer goes in for surgery to remove kidney/bladder stones tomorrow. She has passed dozens and dozens of these in past 2 weeks, with one almost as big as a pencil ...
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We know that they are the struvite type stones.
She has been on the current special diet to dissolve the stones for over two weeks.
She was also on one antibiotic for 10 days but it did not seem to stop the concentration of visible blood in her urine. She is on a different antibiotic now and her urine at least looks more normal.
She does not always make it outside in time and has actually passed three or four stones in succession in a single episode. So the present treatment is working, but the cherry tomato sized stone would take several months to dissolve, and that would be senseless to do. Plus, if it moved downstream, it would require surgery anyway.
I see these dog food recipes for this condition that are brown rice, cottage cheese, boiled egg, brewers yeast, potassium chloride, and canola oil. I may have left something out, but that is my off-hand recollection at this time.
So if these are acceptable, why can't we make some up to augment the canned stuff.
It is extra tough since we have two dogs and both dogs previously ate the same diet of Purina One - Lamb and Rice, plus greenies, pup-peronni and various other treats. Now one dog eats anything she wants, and the other one can't. We have to put the schnauzer outside and then feed the Wheaten Terrier.
I figured if each dog received a little human like food in the form of cottage cheese and boiled egg, etc. along with their dog food, that the one might not carethat she is getting something different.
She has been on the current special diet to dissolve the stones for over two weeks.
She was also on one antibiotic for 10 days but it did not seem to stop the concentration of visible blood in her urine. She is on a different antibiotic now and her urine at least looks more normal.
She does not always make it outside in time and has actually passed three or four stones in succession in a single episode. So the present treatment is working, but the cherry tomato sized stone would take several months to dissolve, and that would be senseless to do. Plus, if it moved downstream, it would require surgery anyway.
I see these dog food recipes for this condition that are brown rice, cottage cheese, boiled egg, brewers yeast, potassium chloride, and canola oil. I may have left something out, but that is my off-hand recollection at this time.
So if these are acceptable, why can't we make some up to augment the canned stuff.
It is extra tough since we have two dogs and both dogs previously ate the same diet of Purina One - Lamb and Rice, plus greenies, pup-peronni and various other treats. Now one dog eats anything she wants, and the other one can't. We have to put the schnauzer outside and then feed the Wheaten Terrier.
I figured if each dog received a little human like food in the form of cottage cheese and boiled egg, etc. along with their dog food, that the one might not carethat she is getting something different.
