The first edition of Animail Tails is out - and, yes, I am cheating a wee bit at the moment by using this newsletter as an excuse for a blog post!
To read the entire newsletter, go here!
Did you know that 1 in 3 people are affected by Kidney Disease without knowing?
Our pets are no different.... many are affected, and our current testing regimes are limited.... significant changes will be evident only when there is moderate damage. What we do know though, is through "trending" we can pick up changes before a pet's
Make sure you visit your GP regularly and get that regular check up. If there are any significant changes, you can at least know when that started to occur. There is nothing worse finding than abnormality, and then wondering how long you had been like that.
Please .... always.... Drink lots of water, reduce salt intake in your food, eat lots of veges, and get regular check ups!
Your pet relies on you .... you are their world, so you need to take care of you.
For our pets, the best we can do is to feed a good quality diet, access to fresh water, and regular check ups including blood (urea/creatinine) and urine (protein, urine specific gravity), and watch for trends.
We are looking for increasing urea/creatinine and urine protein, and slow reduction in specific gravity.
If we see that, it will alert us to the possibility of unhappy kidneys. Once that little 'bleep" (warning bell not the other bleep you are thinking off) happens, then we know that we need to really look more deeply into how serious it is.
As you all know, we are for happy and happy animals (of all varieties)... always.
As I mentioned earlier, World Kidney Day is this month. We would love to be inundated with animal pee for testing, so please feel free to drop your pet's pee off to us any day of the week for testing this march (2015). Make sure you label it with your pet's name, so we know whose pee we are actually testing.
Please, I hate to say this, but please, no human pee! I don't do people pee! :)
And yes, we would seriously love to have lots of little jars of pet urine for testing. I am not called the mad vet for nothing.
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