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Took this sweet overgrown pup for his annual vet visit - He loves his car ride but me taking this boy into the vet without fail will draw laughter from everyone there. He is a big fella about 2/3 my weight and sure has his strength in pulling me out of the vet, checked.
This time around his blood test did not come back positive. While everything else is perfectly well, his urea is too high and creatinine exceeds max range indicating signs of kidney problems. I don't want to stress him with subcutaneos fluids. Where we are, there is no pet dialysis or pet cancer centers so we administer this ourselves.
But before we get there, i'm starting him with low protein, low sodium, low phosphorus diet for 3 months and retest his blood with hopes of signs of improvements.
This diet will include
meat : chicken/pork/fish
organs : chicken liver
veg : carrots/brocolli/beans
grains : rice
+ fish oil
For snacks he munches on carrots and watermelon. And i'm baking him cookies with apple sauce, peanut butter (homemade), oats, banana, yogurt. I don't do process food for him. everything is homemade.
And for exercise he does 0.5km - 2km walk daily
Anybody here has old dogs with kidney problems ? Let me know how you go about their diets and exercise.
Also, anyone can recommend the kinda weight training I need to start carrying my dog ? My dog is 27kgs, i'm 44kgs. I don't think light weight is a problem, I think I probably just don't have enough muscle strength.
He is a sweet old boy, 10 years and 6 months. 73 in human age. He is still a puppy to me but at some point I'm going to need to start carrying him everywhere.
Published at
2023-09-07 16:02:04Event JSON
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