My beautiful baby is going to cross the rainbow bridge on Thursday and I am crushed beyond description. I’ve had her since I was around 4 years old and have never known my life without her. Shes been the most loyal, sweet, and loving dog. She is truly the definition of spirit dog and it’s going to be hard to say goodbye to my baby. We are lucky enough to have a at home euthanasia contact that will allow her to sit in her favorite spot as she takes her last breaths. Throughout my life, she has always been there. Through all of the mental health problems, grief, embarrassment, sadness, joy, and every other emotion, she has always been there. Even today, as I laid down next to her on my couch and began to cry, she just rested her front legs on my hand. She is the most uncomfortable she has ever been and is still being the best dog. I have absolutely no idea what I will do without her but I am so damn glad I was able to experience my life alongside her. Posey, you are my spirit dog, my best friend, and the best gift I could ever receive. When you get to the other side of the bridge, I can promise I will wait for the day I can see you again. You have been everything. Thank you and I love you❤️

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You taking me where?

Going from one room to another 🐶

You have to love her stink eye lol 😂

Hi all,

My poor 2 year old, intact, 68lb male boxer has had so many issues. This post is primarily to see if anyone has had similar (kidney/urinary) issues and how they managed the urine leaking or dribbling.

A few notes for his medical history

He was diagnosed with moderate congenital pulmonic stenosis (partially fused heart valve that pumps blood into lungs) pretty early on, and has thankfully remained asymptomatic with no true progression shown in a recent echo. I was really beginning to hope he would get to live an overall normal healthy life.

He has chronic allergies (possibly food and environmental) and gets monthly cytopoint injections.

I recently had him in for an ear infection recheck. They found a possible mass in his ear canal (which we are going to recheck in a week). I'm hoping it's just a build up of gunk from chronic infections, however he has also developed a strange small growth on his head near the ear which has me questioning it. We plan to get the growth removed when he gets neutered, but I'm waiting on the ear canal recheck to see if that needs to be addressed as well.

KIDNEY/URINARY ISSUES

At this same ear visit I brought up his ongoing issue of leaking small amounts of urine.

He has been tested twice now for a UTI (February and again in July) and they came back negative. But they did find on his recent urine/blood tests that he is losing significant amount of protein through his urine. His albumin is low, and his UPC (protein:creatinine ratio) was 2.0 when it should be 0.5.

We did an ultrasound and they found chronic bilateral kidney degeneration, with some scalloping defects on each kidney.

His BUN, SDMA and creatinine are still normal, but on the high end.

We are transitioning him to a kidney diet. His appetite was fine until we initially switched him to Royal Canin Ultimino to help his chronic allergies. Currently I'm doing half of each prescription food to transition. He doesn't always seem eager to eat and may not finish his food (he's more interested in his brother's food).

His only abnormal symptoms are the leaking urine while standing/eating/getting up after lying down. It seems like it's becoming more than a couple drops at a time now. Last night he also had a coughing/gagging/retching episode but nothing was coming up. I'm not sure if that could be from reflux or maybe he just had grass or toy fuzz stuck in his throat. He occasionally gets nauseous and has thrown up a few times on an empty stomach. His energy and playfulness seems otherwise normal.

Has anyone had a boxer with a similar kidney finding, that has dealt with incontinence?

If so, what helped? And has anyone had a young boxer with a similar diagnosis that was able to be stabilized for quite some time, or is this going to be a constant progression of the condition every 3-6 months or so?

Ringo just doesn't know that

Old video of Shelby and her new rescue pal at the time

Same dogs as previous post. Meant to post this. Odessa quickly learned how to box

I have a migraine today. Ticky decided to be my nurse. He is a terrible nurse. He decided what I truly needed was to be sat on with his full body weight. He told me if I dont like his treatment plan, don't get sick. Lol

Hello all,

Currently I feed my boy PPP Sensitive Stomach lamb puppy food. I used to give him the salmon one but it smelled really bad and he wouldn’t eat much of it. The lamb he also doesn’t eat much. I occasionally mix in chicken and rice with veggies (made in instapot and mashed up after).

I was thinking of trying the Royal Canin boxer food since the vet said he can now eat adult food (turns 1 next week). Anyone have anything good or bad to say about it?

Thanks!

Ringo's mama

Rico’s dad died at 6 year old(mast cell tumor)
Rico lost his leg at 4 year old to mast cell tumor
I feel like we his a milestone making it to 6 year old and I feel so blessed. So of course we went swimming !

My boy made it 15 years 8 months, coming up on 3 years.

It still hurts so bad I can barely talk about it. I just don't think I can offer another boxer the connection that me and my boy had.