Stella - 1 Year old boxer diagnosed with kidney disease

[stellasmum]

Hello Everyone,

I'm really new to this as i've never done this before but i'm trying to reach out to every rescorse possible. Basically we just took our sweet little stella in to get blood work done before we got her spayed, and long story short after being called back into the vet the next day and maybe test later we found out she was born with kidney disease. The only signs she had was peeing and drinking a lot, that's it! Still eats, plays, drinks like normal. She's still my little ball of energy (if anyone owns a boxer, you know what i'm talking about haha). But our hearts were literally broken as our vet doesn't have many answers for us because she's never seen this in a dog this young. So what we've done so far is put her on her new diet that the vet ordered in (Royal Canine Renal Support). Does anyone have any other advise? I'm willing to take anything, as anything is better than what our vet is providing us. She is our baby and all I want is acouple more years with her if anyone could help

[stellasmum]

I also forgot to say her BUN was 19.9 and CRE 2.4 on her last test!

[tonyb286]

The aim would be to get the creatinine down as a first measure. Of course, this largely depends on what existing damage there is to the kidney organs. Fluid therapy is a worthwhile consideration - SubQs maybe, which you can undertake at home (better for such a young dog not to be kept at the vets office while IV fluids could be given). Over a period of perhaps a month, using daily SubQs, you would be able to see if creatinine came down by having two weekly blood tests.

If you choose not to go down that route, then diet changes will certainly help. These would be needed in any event.

Is the Royal Canine Renal Support wet or dry version?

Tony