Hi everyone. We are experienced dog owners but new to this particular situation.
We bred a litter of puppies, born back in November. Four puppies, two of which have gone to their new homes and are doing well. So two are still with us, one of which is the one we decided to keep. She is everything we wanted so all good there.
The other girl still with us has faulty plumbing so is urine incontinent. This is sometimes called wet puppy, due to ectopic ureters where the urine doesn't feed into the bladder but into the vagina instead. We are waiting for a referral for laser treatment to try and correct this sometime in the next month.
When we first spotted this at a few days old, the owner of the stud dog said she would have her put to sleep. We felt we owed it to her to try and get this treated so carried on. Every day I am torn between thinking we struggle on and get her fixed (no guarantees that it will work) and thinking we should have taken that advice.
As the pups have grown the sheer amount of dribbled wee she produces has grown too. I shower her three times a day but her fur is damp and stained. The kitchen smells no matter how much I clear up and it gets on the other puppy too as they cuddle up together.
She has had pre op blood and urine tests and we are waiting for the referral to come through. Blood test needed repeating yesterday as there was a problem with the first sample. Hoping that doesn't hold things up as I am counting the days at the moment.
Poor little thing didn't ask for this and we just hope we are doing the best for her and we get a good outcome. She is such a jolly little soul. We are all getting attached so I don't think she will be going anywhere else once she is fixed.