Quote Originally Posted by catmandu View Post
I would be inclined to give Irwin some more time at 6 years young
Is Irwin in a lot of pain where hes scraeming when he eliminates?
They are making such advances in Vet Technonology , I would get another opinion if you feel that this Vet isnt helping.
We are doubling Our Prayers for Incredible Irwin so he can beat this disease
Only when he was passing the stones, but the stones are gone now, they went in and flushed him all out.

Basically the stones aggravate his urethra, and his urethra will become inflamed and then I'll catch him peeing blood in the sink.

The stones are gone now, but I don't know what a "thickened bladder wall" means in terms of discomfort.

I used to live in NYC, and he was treated there by at least 10 vets including at the animal medical center. And now here we've been to 3 with him and I really like this vet. Irwins had countless urinalysis, x rays, ultrasounds, prescription diets, anti-inflammatories, etc. I must've spent at least $10,000 in the last 5 years.

What we did was, we went in and cleaned him out and now we are "starting over" with him, on a different prescription diet, no stones. But there is nothing they can do for a thickened bladder, its just something that happens with the FLUTD. She said the vessels that lead to the bladder are also engorged, but his kidneys functions came back fine.