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Confidence building with a fearful puppy
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Confidence building with a fearful puppy

Hello everyone,

I adopted a pyr puppy who was placed in a shelter due to being attacked by some sort of doodle (large one) at 10 weeks old. She’s ready for full socialization now, but she gets so scared when she sees dogs in public. She will sometimes try to bolt on a leash if the owner doesn’t have a handle of their dog and it gets close to her. How can I try building her confidence around stranger dogs? She lives with two ACDs that she loves and has no issue with.

u/IllAttorney4353 — 10 hours ago
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Struvite crystals in 5 month old puppy, C/D food for life?

Hello, I adopted a pyr mix from a rescue in AZ 3 months ago. She is 5 months old currently. She developed a severe UTI seemingly out of nowhere June 15th. She was urinating copious amounts of blood, we rushed her to our vet who diagnosed this incident as a UTI per a urinalysis. She was prescribed Gabapentin 100mg Capsules (per cap) Give 1 Capsule By Mouth Twice Daily For 7 Days For Pain and Clavamox 250mg Tabs (per tab) Give 1 Tablet By Mouth Twice Daily For 14 Days To Treat Or Prevent Infection. She took the FULL round and soon after she stopped that round of antibiotics she began to strain severely again. She is currently able to urinate but then will continue to strain for 2 or so minutes while walking in circles. So, I made another appointment on June 30th and a UA/Microscopy was done. They found struvite crystals, her ultrasound literally looked like glitter in her bladder with an inflamed lining. So she was placed on a C/D Urinary diet effective immediately, no transition from her current food. The vet told me this is permanent and she will be on this food her entire life. I’m concerned because from what i’ve heard (i’m clearly not a nutritionist or vet) these foods aren’t that great (hills and purina pro) and they are very expensive. I called my local pet store asking if they carried it and they dang near yelled at me for daring to feed these brands to a growing puppy, saying I need to feed raw instead. This is not to say i’m not willing to feed them, I certainly am especially because she deserves no more pain. I am just curious what other vets think about my vet’s opinion? Should I get a second opinion or is this good? I’m going to paste her results here.

Any advice is appreciated! :) Thank you for all the hard work you guys do!

UA/Microscopy results from Lab:
Test
Requisition ID: 329579221
BACTERIA
Result
IDEXX Reference Labotatory
Posted
Final
BILIRUBIN
NONE SEEN
Reference Range
BLOOD
NEGATIVE
CASTS
NEGATIVE
CLARITY
NONE SEEN
CLEAR
COLOR
CRYSTALS
Dark Yellow
SEE NOTES
H
EPI CELL
RARE (0-1)
GLUCOSE
NEGATIVE
KETONES
NEGATIVE
MUCUS
PH
NONE SEEN
8.5
6.0 - 1.5
PROTEIN
1+H
RBC
0-2 HPE
SP
GRAVITY
1.036
1.030 - 1.098
UROB
NORMAL
WBC
0-2 HPE
2+ AMMONIUM MG PHOSPHATE (6-20)/HPE
Urinalysis results from Lab:
IDEXX Veclab In-clinic Laboratory
Requisition ID: 28634
Posted
Final
Reference Range
Result
Test
>50 /HPF
WBC =
>50 /HPF
RBC =
Bact Cocci = None detected

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u/IllAttorney4353 — 2 days ago
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Struvite Crystals in 5 month old pyr puppy, C/D food for life?

Hello, I adopted a pyr mix from a rescue in AZ 3 months ago. She is 5 months old currently. She developed a severe UTI seemingly out of nowhere June 15th. She was urinating copious amounts of blood, we rushed her to our vet who diagnosed this incident as a UTI per a urinalysis. She was prescribed Gabapentin 100mg Capsules (per cap) Give 1 Capsule By Mouth Twice Daily For 7 Days For Pain and Clavamox 250mg Tabs (per tab) Give 1 Tablet By Mouth Twice Daily For 14 Days To Treat Or Prevent Infection. She took the FULL round and soon after she stopped that round of antibiotics she began to strain severely again. She is currently able to urinate but then will continue to strain for 2 or so minutes while walking in circles. So, I made another appointment on June 30th and a UA/Microscopy was done. They found struvite crystals, her ultrasound literally looked like glitter in her bladder with an inflamed lining. So she was placed on a C/D Urinary diet effective immediately, no transition from her current food. The vet told me this is permanent and she will be on this food her entire life. I’m concerned because from what i’ve heard (i’m clearly not a nutritionist or vet) these foods aren’t that great (hills and purina pro) and they are very expensive. I called my local pet store asking if they carried it and they dang near yelled at me for daring to feed these brands to a growing puppy, saying I need to feed raw instead. This is not to say i’m not willing to feed them, I certainly am especially because she deserves no more pain. I am just curious what other vets think about my vet’s opinion? Should I get a second opinion or is this good? I’m going to paste her results here.

Any advice is appreciated! :) Thank you for all the hard work you guys do!

UA/Microscopy results from Lab:
Test
Requisition ID: 329579221
BACTERIA
Result
IDEXX Reference Labotatory
Posted
Final
BILIRUBIN
NONE SEEN
Reference Range
BLOOD
NEGATIVE
CASTS
NEGATIVE
CLARITY
NONE SEEN
CLEAR
COLOR
CRYSTALS
Dark Yellow
SEE NOTES
H
EPI CELL
RARE (0-1)
GLUCOSE
NEGATIVE
KETONES
NEGATIVE
MUCUS
PH
NONE SEEN
8.5
6.0 - 1.5
PROTEIN
1+H
RBC
0-2 HPE
SP
GRAVITY
1.036
1.030 - 1.098
UROB
NORMAL
WBC
0-2 HPE
2+ AMMONIUM MG PHOSPHATE (6-20)/HPE
Urinalysis results from Lab:
IDEXX Veclab In-clinic Laboratory
Requisition ID: 28634
Posted
Final
Reference Range
Result
Test
>50 /HPF
WBC =
>50 /HPF
RBC =
Bact Cocci = None detected

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u/IllAttorney4353 — 2 days ago