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ATTENTION! Age related problem

My dog Shadow passed away a few days ago with High Kidney Urea... This happens due to old age as the kidney's start to weaken. It causes ulcers throughout the digestive track due to the high urea. Dog's usually have blood urea ranging from 1 to 45 but before his death it was 704 which was too high... Since it is a kidney problem there are no visible symptoms and it could even be rising without your dog showing any difference until it gets out of hand ... thus, blood tests every 6 months are recommended for dogs over 8 years of age and more often than that is you have spare time.

I just thought i would mention this because i don't want people to lose their dogs to a problem that is age related and easily curable if caught early on by regular blood tests since there are no visible symptoms early on ..

(Picture of my dog in the Pictures or In Loving Memory section)

So sorry for your loss.

Thank you for sharing. I am so sorry for your loss.

hopefully some of the MODs stick this so no one else loses their pet to this as it is hard to diagnose but easy to treat... that is more important .. Thanks for all the well wishes

Sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing with us.

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Originally Posted by xShadowx (Post 3120034)

I just called my vet two days ago to schedule my 8.5 year old for her blood. Its a good baseline and I couldn't agree more that it should be done.

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Originally Posted by llombardo (Post 3120642)

I just called my vet two days ago to schedule my 8.5 year old for her blood. Its a good baseline and I couldn't agree more that it should be done.

That is excellent news! hope all is well...

Although kidney issues surface as an age related disease, this aside from genetic/inherent juvenile or toxicosis (poisoning)...the only way to address kidney's is preventing problems first and formost with diet...all the blood work in the world won't help the kidneys once disease sets in and shows.

Real Whole Foods.

Kidney's suffer the brunt of what the liver cannot filter

Minimize toxic load - vaccines, pesticides (spot on treatments), abx., steroids, "artifical additives" i.e. - vit. minerals (pre-mix from china in kibble that is used to replace the nutrients in kibble), rendered fats (oxidize causing free radicals, cancer causing carcinogens)

There is some early evidence from very small studies that CoQ10 helps with some kidney issues (high creatinine, possibly high urea).
Kidney Dis-ease In Dogs

It's not the sort of thing even a good vet is likely to know about (mine didn't but was interested when I sent him the links). His thought now is it's a safe supplement good for other things, so no harm in adding it to a senior supplement list (and maybe it will help).

I'm sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing this information.

I think people should just ease up o the proteins sometimes just because your dog might love them doesn't mean that is what you should keep giving him. Once or twice in 4 days is fine or more or less depending on exercise levels..

This helps in reducing pressure on the kidney's from the start and avoids these problems from the start...