What Are the Symptoms of Dog Stones?

Symptoms of dog stones:

1. Frequent urination. Dogs often urinate, but the amount is small each time, but more often, sometimes small particles or fine sand-like stones can be discharged when urinating.

2. Hematuria. Bloody urine when you urinate, or the last few drops of urine.

3. The body size becomes larger. The dog seems to be getting bigger in size than before, especially around the waist.

4. Emotional irritability. The dog's mood has changed, the mood is particularly bad, and it is easy to get angry and roar for no reason, and behave very irritable.

5. Anorexia. The dog is not in good spirits and begins to anorexia, and some serious cases will directly start hunger strike.

6. Lick private parts. Sometimes it scratches or licks its private parts from time to time, giving people the illusion of cleanliness.

7. In severe cases, there will be anuria. Dogs with anuria generally need surgery. When the symptoms are mild, you can try to dissolve the medicine.

Preventive measures for dog stones:

1. Drink plenty of water. Pay attention to feeding your dog more water every day, especially in hot summer.

2. Add salt. Add appropriate amount of salt to the food to increase the dog's drinking water and urination, and reduce the precipitation, aggregation and growth of low-soluble crystals in the urine in any part of the urinary tract.

3. Strengthen feeding management. Avoid long-term single-feeding of animal liver, beef, lean pork and high-protein foods, and supplement a certain amount of vegetables and calcium.

4. Increase outdoor sports. Increase the amount of exercise and sunbathing time for dogs, promote calcium absorption and metabolism, and adjust the ratio of calcium and phosphorus.