[NAGDU] Urinary issues disappeared after retirement

[Vanessa Lowery]

I know of one situation where a gentleman's dog was diagnosed with readable bowel disease. Sometimes that can be successfully treated and the dog can continue to work. But in the case of this gentleman, the level of treatment success with wax and Wayne. He finally had to retire the dog, and after several months went by, the irritable bowel disease disappeared. The dog was a fantastic worker and appeared to enjoy working, but the gentleman and I surmise that the irritable bowel disease was brought on by stress. After the dog retired and the stress of working went away, so did the IBD.  So I think that some dogs are in a position where they work beautifully and don't appear to show a lot of the typical signs of stress, yet other problems that seem to be due to some other calls crop up only to disappear when the dog retires. Go figure.


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> On Mar 8, 2024, at 7:50 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Some of you may recall that my dog Krokus had urinary issues for quite a
> while.  He would have extreme urgency and frequency.  He had to go out a
> lot, and, if he showed signs of needing to go, I had to get him out fast.
> No one seemed to know exactly what it was, but a dog urologist prescribed
> some pills that seemed to help.  
> 
> Well, when Krokus retired, the problem went away.  I'm wondering if it was
> due to the stress of working, and not something physical at all, or maybe a
> combination of the two.  It happened at home, but it happened more when we
> were traveling, when he had to work harder.  He never seemed anxious,
> though, as he got older, he wanted to find someone to follow if he could,
> and he retired at 9 years old because he just didn't want to work anymore.  
> 
> My old dog Echo had spayed bitch incontinence, controlled with meds, and it
> went away when she retired, too, so I wonder if it had a stress component.  
> 
> Anyway, I mention these things because I remember other people having
> similar issues.  Not that it's too helpful, if the answer is to retire the
> dog.
> 
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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