Kidney Failure

[dhostetler]

I have a 5 yearold female that appears to be having kidney failure and is currently at the vet on IV trying to get the kidney count down, if the count isn't down by Sun. night I will probably have to put her down. She doesn't have an infection and the vet doesn't know what is causing it.

She has not been out of the kennel since Oct. 9th so that rules out the obvious antifreeze reason. I feed my hounds mainly butcher scraps, the same scraps that 2 other hound guys feed. Bad Genetics?: Her 3 litter mates are still alive and doing well. Her mother is still alive. Her father lived to age 13.

First part of Oct. I was in Idaho bear hunting (Clark Fork area) not long after returning she and my redbone started drinking about 5 quarts of water a day each, which is way above normal about 2 weeks ago they dropped down to normal water intake. The redbone appears to be fine. According to information I found online a significant increase of water intake signals early stages of kidney failure, so maybe she and the redbone got into poison over there?

Anybody got any ideas???

[powderhorn]

Was she roughed up at all anytime in the last year or so? Bear knock her around or a bad fall? I've heard of kidney damage as old as a few years waiting to manifest itself slowly over time.. A rough hit from a bear could damage the kidney and cause it to fail.. Whatever the source of the problem is, I'm sure sorry about your dog and I hope she pulls through somehow.

[Huntin Hounds]

It could be poison. Some cock sucker was putting strychnine out in sausage in that area this spring. Here's the link to the story. http://www.krem.com/news/local/Dog-dies ... 60964.html. Good luck, I hope you get it figured out.

[Tug]

Hope everything turns out alright. I tried this proceedure about 2 years ago on a dog it did not work out. I hope yours is a better experience.

[PLOTTS13]

I have a 5 yearold female that appears to be having kidney failure and is currently at the vet on IV trying to get the kidney count down, if the count isn't down by Sun. night I will probably have to put her down. She doesn't have an infection and the vet doesn't know what is causing it.

She has not been out of the kennel since Oct. 9th so that rules out the obvious antifreeze reason. I feed my hounds mainly butcher scraps, the same scraps that 2 other hound guys feed. Bad Genetics?: Her 3 litter mates are still alive and doing well. Her mother is still alive. Her father lived to age 13.

First part of Oct. I was in Idaho bear hunting (Clark Fork area) not long after returning she and my redbone started drinking about 5 quarts of water a day each, which is way above normal about 2 weeks ago they dropped down to normal water intake. The redbone appears to be fine. According to information I found online a significant increase of water intake signals early stages of kidney failure, so maybe she and the redbone got into poison over there?

Anybody got any ideas???

mY B&T RECENTLY DIED OF KIDNEY FAILURE. HER GUTS WERE TORN UP AND HER FRONT LEG WAS RIPPEDS OFF 2 YEARS BEFORE SO I FIGURE THAT WHAT IT WAS. IF SHE GETS TO THE POINT WHERE SHE WILL NOT DRINK MUCH WATER AND IS GETTING SKINNY SHE IS PROBABLY GOING TO DIE VERY SOON. SRY TO HEAR THIS ABOUT YOUR DOG.

[blondbeard]

sorry to hear of that, i had a cow dog die because of kidney problems, hers was from a bad trauma from the cow stomping her in to the ground. hopefully she will pull through.

[dhostetler]

She never got injured that I know of.

The last race I had was when I struck on a switchback, so I turned her down, she is my main bear start dog as I never had a back track race on one she started. She went below the road and opened up several times so I turned 2 more in. They were doing a lot of screwing around there and I saw a couple of ravens so I went down there to check it out. There were bones there about the size of an average deer but I couldn't find the head.

Two things struck me as strange, the gut pounch was laying there and was full of grain, 5 miles from the closest house or ranch, also the carcass was about 100 yards off the road, which isn't unusual but what was unusual was it was not in deer habitat. I have seen a lot of wolf and lion kills and it didn't appear to be either. I am thinking it may have been a planted carcass.

She is still alive, the vet managed to get her kidney count down by half by running a lot of fluid through her. I have her in the house and am giving her all kinds of shots and shooting stuff down her mouth. She drinks very little water but when I let her out she eats snow but doesn't have a fever??? I believe she is staying hydrated by the 400 MM of fluid I inject in her daily. She looks like she is at deaths door and if I had no hope I would put her out of her misery but the vet thinks she might only have a kidney infection.

Most of the day she lays on the same couch cushion that 2 other sick dogs died on, if she dies I think I will throw the cursed cushion away

[blondbeard]

ya it could be an infection speacialy if that deer was poisend and left there to harm some other animals. hope see gets better for you. Jesse

[dhostetler]

Well she died, so she joined the graveyard of my other former great hounds.

[cat and bear]

My heart is out to you man, sorry for your loss, sharing your story makes us all sick about it

[blondbeard]

sorry to hear that bro, just think, shes still up there doing what she love.