X-rays;  Recurring bladder stones in a white female Miniature Schnauzer
Channel: Dr David Sing
Date: 2015-05-12

Recurring bladder stones in a 5-year-old female Schnauzer 19 months after surgery.  No radiodense kidney stones are seen. 

The dog was fed brown rice and minced beef mainly after the first bladder surgery to remove the bladder stones 19 months ago, the owner reported. However the dog would control urination at home for around 12 hours during weekdays, waiing for the owner to come home to bring her downstairs to pee. A familiar tendency in Schnauzers, urine stasis,  drinking little water and bacterial infection of the bladder led to struvite stone formation in this Miniature Schnauzer. 

Regular urine tests and X-rays were not done by the owner and almost all Singapore dog owners with similar cases. 

Small struvite stones spotted early, could have had been dissolved by a special diet.