Spuds off to the vets

Yes you’d imagine but the flexions he was doing were more out wards and sort of joint by joint. Away from his body more.


The cat said nothing, strangely! He didn’t move and made no sound the entire drive there, in the past I’ve wedged the cage in to stop him tipping it over and he yells the entire way.
Very odd!
 
poiuytrewq said:
Yes you’d imagine but the flexions he was doing were more out wards and sort of joint by joint. Away from his body more.


The cat said nothing, strangely! He didn’t move and made no sound the entire drive there, in the past I’ve wedged the cage in to stop him tipping it over and he yells the entire way.
Very odd!
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Maybe cat was happy dog was coming too? 😆
 
They do get on very well to be fair!


Ricedance said:
Maybe cat was happy dog was coming too? 😆
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meesha said:
That's great they've found the issue and it's fixable. V pleased for u.
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Well, yes hopefully! I'm thrilled if it's this easy. It may of course not be this, next step if the tablets don't help the movement is to x-ray his back.
 
druid said:
Glad you don't it's pricey but effective!
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Do you have experience of using it?

Im not actually sure what I paid in all honesty but online it’s £55, I know I’ll have paid a fair bit more as my vet is always more than online, which is absolutely fine. So as a one treatment off it’s not at all expensive really but as a weekly thing it would have been!
 
poiuytrewq said:
Do you have experience of using it?

Im not actually sure what I paid in all honesty but online it’s £55, I know I’ll have paid a fair bit more as my vet is always more than online, which is absolutely fine. So as a one treatment off it’s not at all expensive really but as a weekly thing it would have been!
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Yep, I'm a vet :)
 
druid said:
Yes, I've got several dogs we keep on ypozane cycles (owners don't wish to neuter for various reasons). As diagnosis go it's a better option.
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So it might be an option in 6 months or whatever to give another course rather than castrate? Id be slightly worried at his age about GA firstly but secondly as I’ve mentioned before he’d just be besides himself left at the vet. When he went to be chipped years ago the nurse led him away and the noise was horrendous! A quick course of pills every so often would be preferable for everyone I’m sure.
 
Ok so a really odd bumhole question. I’m sorry everyone but OP started it 🤣.
Scout’s bum is much bigger than all my bitches. And I walk behind a lot of labs, as dogs get older they do seem to end up with enormous… holes 😂. Is that a boy thing then?
Last time Scout went to the vet she checked his prostrate (he went because pooing blood after a failed culinary experiment). Is it something vets do for entires as standard?
 
Clodagh said:
Ok so a really odd bumhole question. I’m sorry everyone but OP started it 🤣.
Scout’s bum is much bigger than all my bitches. And I walk behind a lot of labs, as dogs get older they do seem to end up with enormous… holes 😂. Is that a boy thing then?
Last time Scout went to the vet she checked his prostrate (he went because pooing blood after a failed culinary experiment). Is it something vets do for entires as standard?
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Spud was perfectly normal looking until a while ago. I noticed it because he always runs ahead in front of me. It was just weird looking, but m pretty sure not to everyone!
OH hadn’t noticed but he never walks him
 
@druid really sorry! Can I just ask you a question.
Do these tablets make dogs poo?
I came home from work to a HUGE pile of poo. I thought Bertie because it’s too big to be a terrier and poor spud never poos in the house.
Anyway it’s just happened again and Spud was besides himself, it was obviously him, he was the only one in the room. It’s very unlike him though. Could it be the tablets?

Nb Bertie doesn’t poo in the house either but out of them all he’s the baby!
 
poiuytrewq said:
@druid really sorry! Can I just ask you a question.
Do these tablets make dogs poo?
I came home from work to a HUGE pile of poo. I thought Bertie because it’s too big to be a terrier and poor spud never poos in the house.
Anyway it’s just happened again and Spud was besides himself, it was obviously him, he was the only one in the room. It’s very unlike him though. Could it be the tablets?

Nb Bertie doesn’t poo in the house either but out of them all he’s the baby!
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If the tablets are starting to reduce the prostate size.....then it is much easier for the poo to be pushed through....it will have been partially obstructed by the size of the prostate within the pelvis!!!
 
poiuytrewq said:
@druid really sorry! Can I just ask you a question.
Do these tablets make dogs poo?
I came home from work to a HUGE pile of poo. I thought Bertie because it’s too big to be a terrier and poor spud never poos in the house.
Anyway it’s just happened again and Spud was besides himself, it was obviously him, he was the only one in the room. It’s very unlike him though. Could it be the tablets?

Nb Bertie doesn’t poo in the house either but out of them all he’s the baby!
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Not a side effect I have noticed
 
He is a bit delicate. He is ok on his food and I can give him a little bit of something as a treat but if I gave him a dinner with roast left overs for example he would have a really bad tummy (and I’d wake up to a really bad morning) we learnt that very early on so know to be careful with what he eats.
Luckily he never eats stuff out walking.
 
poiuytrewq said:
Ok, Sorry! Such a manic day yesterday in the end. I did try and update in the evening but no battery life on my phone.

So I explained to the vet that he had changed shape and was standing a bit oddly, that he was absolutely fine and normal out walking, in himself, still plays a lot, but that he looked stiff and climbed on the sofa weirdly.
Initial examination, was flexing, seeing the movement in each joint and trying to find any pain response. There was none, he was very happy to do whatever asked and have his legs in any position.
This went on some time and the vet concluded that joint and muscle wise he was absolutely fine, in fact had a very good range of movement for his age.
Weight wise, he actually hasn't really gained, In fact according to his records he had lost 2kg- this is wrong and we agreed must have been recorded incorrectly last visit (another thing to not help with my confidence in the other vet!) He's been low-mid 24kg most of his adult life.
It was when I mentioned something that i didnt really think relevant at the beginning but as we seemed not to be getting far i said " there's definitely something wrong, his bum has gone flabby or loose aswell" *sorry too much info!?
He replied, you mean muscle wise, no i mean but hole wise..... Which apparently was the light bulb moment.
He had a look, said it didn't look abnormal to him but if i thought it had changed, along with the camped under hocks and almost rounded back end that i had just described a dog with prostate problems.
Que, finger up his butt, apparently you can barely feel a dogs prostate but his is massive. Its sitting up in his pelvis and so he said would give mobility problems as its painful.
He is over riding it, adrenalin i suppose at walk/play/dinner time but its probably pretty sore otherwise.
The vet said he's not a betting man but would put money on this being the problem.
So he has to have a tablet once a day- Ypozane. He thinks i should see an improvement in about 3 weeks so we will review then.
He has 6 months worth of pills which is long enough to fix it all together, however it will more than likely return as soon as he stops taking them at which point he will have to be castrated.
I'm really pleased its not arthritis because my fear was getting that bad in a short space of time, even on pain killers he'd be crippled by a year or so, so i think this is a far more positive outcome.
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Oh how interesting - a similar thing happened to my lad, fit working cocker been out beating all season, came up a bit stiff at the end of january then developed a weird lump just to the side of his anus in the little dip by his tail, I could push it in so straight to the vets - his bumhole also looked swollen and flabby for want of a better word - no other symptoms still working his socks off and at 8 the stiffness was only slight and put down to him having overdone it - he's very enthusiastic! Rectal exam found his prostrate was grossly swollen and had punched a hole in his pelvic floor muscle, the vet had read about it but never seen one, so que other vets coming to take a look, he was castrated and had surgery to repair the hernia the following day, but shows how stoic dogs can be, we had no apparent pain apart from slight stiffness, no blood in the wee, normal wees too amount wise, just that day when we noticed the soft lump and a baboon bumhole! Everything is fine now and the vets put it down to his fitness levels literally holding him together until the prostrate had nowhere to go. Hopefully your boy will respond well to the tablets and be back to normal soon.
 
maisie06 said:
Oh how interesting - a similar thing happened to my lad, fit working cocker been out beating all season, came up a bit stiff at the end of january then developed a weird lump just to the side of his anus in the little dip by his tail, I could push it in so straight to the vets - his bumhole also looked swollen and flabby for want of a better word - no other symptoms still working his socks off and at 8 the stiffness was only slight and put down to him having overdone it - he's very enthusiastic! Rectal exam found his prostrate was grossly swollen and had punched a hole in his pelvic floor muscle, the vet had read about it but never seen one, so que other vets coming to take a look, he was castrated and had surgery to repair the hernia the following day, but shows how stoic dogs can be, we had no apparent pain apart from slight stiffness, no blood in the wee, normal wees too amount wise, just that day when we noticed the soft lump and a baboon bumhole! Everything is fine now and the vets put it down to his fitness levels literally holding him together until the prostrate had nowhere to go. Hopefully your boy will respond well to the tablets and be back to normal soon.
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Oh wow! No ours had no blood, well not that I ever noticed and seemed to be wee’ing normally.

Glad to hear your got your poor boy sorted quickly.
 
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