A new day of positives!!
Yesterday our vet catheterised Clark to check if there were any obstructions in his Urethra and there are no stones she could feel in there which is great news, also his urine test results came back positively too. Now the not so positive........ with the good news comes the question of why? If all those results are good then why the streaming urine when sleeping and the dribbles when his bladder starts to fill? So one test Siobhan suggested was that we should trial Propalin as this helps stimulate the muscles (I think!) so yesterday lunch time we started his first dose and guess what.............. we are sure that he is not dribbling quite as much as he was........... we think the Propalin may be working!!!!!
Today I have made two more belly bands, got some incontinence pads and Tena Lady pads for the belly bands so IF he continues to need them they will keep him dry whilst he sleeps. Buying a basket full of incontinence pads etc was mildly embarrassing at my age but hey, he's worth it!! Sadly we are really struggling to get the RC Urinary food in him, he really isn't keen (!) but we need to keep him on it to prevent crystals and stones forming again in the future.
We have decided to try Yumega Plus by Lintbells too which I hope will help his skin improve. We also started the Optimmune for his poorly left eye today. I bathed him with Malaseb this afternoon and he was so so good - you can now see his colours coming through, black patches, tan and his white is white! His skin is very speckled and his tummy is just adorable - he showed me this morning by rolling over for a tummy tickle!! He was very itchy last night and didn't settle very well but I am hoping he will be happier tonight as he is clean and hope that soothes his itchies - its hardly surprising his skin has been irritating him bearing in mind when he arrived he was matted and dreadlocked all over. Having trimmed and now bathed him he smells and feels so much better to our touch and I am sure he feels better too!!
Should the Propalin fail to give as good results as now hoped our soft tissue surgeon Helena and our specialist scanner Rachael are planning to work together to try and find any internal problems in his bladder using x-rays, scans and dye but as we are trialing the Propalin this shall not be done for about 10 days or so. He will need to go to our hospital at Falmouth should we go down this route and I have every confidence that if they find anything they can fix they will do so perfectly!
Clark is really bonding to me now and when I took Wena to agility this afternoon he cried when I left :'( but when I came home he was ecstatic, leaping about and licking me! Rob took him and Molly for a walk whilst I was gone and he was much less confident without me but he did settle in the end and he is having gentle short walks, two to three times a day, to build his muscles up.
Rob moved some clothes at home this afternoon and dropped a file which really scared poor Clark and sent him galloping into the kitchen to me - there he sat for quite a while trembling but he eventually got over and seems to have forgiven Rob. It frighten him, poor baby. The evidence is there that he has been abused in the past but also there is evidence that he did once live with people he trusted - he was happy to be bathed and brushed and he is as clean as he can be in the house bearing in mind his problems.
As a first foster for us we got lucky with him!! He is a gentle loving chap who may have some medical issues but generally is a loving fella who only wants to be loved right back!
Positive big smiles here!! We love our little SUPERMAN!!
i had a rescue female wft with incontinence issues similar to clark's; she would primarily have a wee when sleeping and was obviously unaware that she was doing so. our vet prescribed propalin and it worked wonders. hoping that the propalin works as well for clark!
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