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What other foods can help a dog with a bladder stone?
My 3 year old chihuahua has a bladder stone and was given a Urinary SO diet dry dog food. He is very picky and won't eat the food even if its wet. I've been making him his own dog food since the big recall, and whatever I do he wont eat it (mixing it with other foods). Is there anything I can make that can help with his bladder stone?
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- You need to know what type of stone before a diet can be determined... the treatment for one type of stone is nearly opposite the treatment for another. Please consider joining Yahoo's K9KidneyDiet email group. There are a lot of people on it with tons of experience dealing with both bladder and kidney stones. I rescued a dog with calcium oxylate bladder stones.. the group's FuzzerFood Diet has worked wonders for him and he's now doing well in his new (3 years now!) home. Good luck,
- Okay, I have my flame suit on, so go ahead and give me all the thumbs down, oh you people that think vets are gods and you should pump all kinds of drugs in to your dogs! I have found, by researching natural rearing for dogs, that cranberrys help this problem. You can get cranberry powder at a health food store, a little on the food every day. Or you could try feeding your dog Canidae, which has cranberry in it, is all natural, with no preservatives or corn, wheat. I think that all the unnatural things that people feed their dogs has a LOT to do with the declining health of the general pet population! (Ready for flame throwers!)
- Have it surgically removed....stone(s) will be gone in an hour as opposed to months. Have the vet send it for analysis to determine the content inside and out. Then choose a diet to lessen the recurrence. Hill's, Purina, Waltham, Eukanuba, IVD, and others all carry suitable stone specific diet. Sometimes supplements that adjust urine pH will be used as well.
- You really need to know what kind of stones your dog has. There are 2 types of stones, there are calcium stones and oxylate stones. The diets for each are EXTREMELY different, and feeding the wrong diet can actually make the stones worse. I would ask a vet which foods he would recommend.
- I had a male Pomeranian that had many small bladder stones. So many that the vet said surgery was not an option to remove all of them. Dog ate Rx canned food from the vet for 2 months. X-rayed again and only a few had dissolved and passed. So I tried a diet of brown rice, egg, honey, carrots and a pinch of garlic and a lean meat. You just cook everything together till done. After another month x-rayed again and most of the stones where gone. Vet was shocked as I was. Dog lived to the age of 17. He was 8 when this episode took place.
