Healing my elderly dog naturally- update

Since my last post 3 months ago, my old dog has been doing incredibly well on all three herbal supplements; Chanca Piedra pills, Milk Thistle alcohol free extract, and Pet Alive Kidney support . In fact he hasn't had any urinary accidents in the house at all. I hardly ever notice any blood in the urine compared to what he was experiencing before I started  him on the treatments. I'm still not exactly sure what was wrong with the dog. The veterinarian indicated she thought it had more to do with the liver than the kidneys. I thought perhaps he had kidney stones as the incontinence and blood in the urine would come and go, regardless of the cause, he seems to be doing much better now. The Chanca Piedra is recommended for bladder, liver, gallbladder and kidney issues http://piedrachanca.com/  which may be part of the improvement. At one point he started throwing up and I was afraid that it had something to do with the herbal supplements, so I stopped all three for a few days. The blood in the urine came back and I figured out that the vomiting was a result of the dog eating out of my compost pile, and not the herbal supplements so I put him back on the 3 supplements and his urine cleared up again and he was fine.I have re- ordered the herbal supplements numerous times, and continue to give them to him in the same amounts( approximately .50ml-about 1/3 of the dropper applicator of the Pet Alive Kidney Support and the same amount for the Milk Thistle Extract one time a day , one Chanca Piedra pill covered in peanut butter ). Once in a while if I still notice a reddish color in the urine, I will give one extra Chanca Piedra pill, totaling, 2 pills for that day, for my  now, 45 lb, elderly dog

My dog just turned 15 years old .He seems to be doing quite well, he sleeps peacefully on his comfortable, memory foam, dog bed. He wanders around outside on my acreage, but doesn't go too far. He's taken to preemptive barking when I let him out. It's probably because he's old, and doesn't see to well, and wants to scare off any trouble that might be out there. Unfortunately the younger dog doesn't realize this, so they are often times like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, off barking and chasing imaginary windmills together. 

Healing my elderly dog naturally

This is my 14 year old rescued Australian Cattle dog Pascual. I got him when he was two years old and he has been in good health most of his life. Recently he was having some trouble with incontinence. One day, he was laying in his dog bed. He couldn't get up,or hardly move, his eyes looked glassy and seemed to be strangely staring out into space. I thought he was going to pass away within the hour. I kept thinking if he's going to die wouldn't it be better for him to go here at home on his dog bed, than at the veterinarian's office. I was very distraught. I have used all kinds of alternative medicine over the years and thought to myself "well I might as well try a homeopathic" I gave him a dose of homeopathic arsenicum 30c, and within 20 minutes he started to revive. I reconsidered my options.  Since he seemed to rally, I took him into the veterinarian's office. She ran some tests and thought the problem had more to do with his liver than with his kidneys. She gave me a course of antibiotics for him and seemed to indicate "he's 14, we can try the antibiotics, or spend a lot more money on expensive testing and treatments, but let's see what happens".

The antibiotics helped somewhat but he still seemed to be having problems with incontinence, huge puddles of urine, sometimes with various shades of blood in the urine. I then searched around on the internet for alternative treatments. He was drinking a lot of water, much more than normal, so I thought he might have some kind of kidney stones. I settled on a daily treatment, for my 50lb dog, of  one daily dose of the following three products :Royal Break-stone(chanca piedra)http://www.vitacost.com/whole-world-botanicals-royal-break-stone-liver-gall-bladder-support-400-mg-120-vegetarian-capsules-3?csrc=GPF-PA-Herbs-691195003091&ci_gpa=pla&ci_kw=&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=691195003091&gclid=CJ-qnpSHub0CFRSPfgodYUgA8w,I give him one capsule of the chanca piedra/royal break stone, covered in peanut butter, milk thistle alcohol free extract, about 5 drops in his mouth http://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-milk-thistle-liquid-extract-alcohol-free-2000-mg-1-fl-oz-1,http://www.vitacost.com/vitacost-milk-thistle-liquid-extract-alcohol-free-2000-mg-1-fl-oz-1, and  Pet Alive Kidney Support http://www.nativeremedies.com/petalive/products/pa-kidney-support-dog-cat-urinary-tract.html.The chanca piedra, Royal Break stone was the only product I wasn't sure about  how it would work for the dog,  because it wasn't specifically recommended for dogs, but I figured I'd watch him and if there was a problem I would stop. He's doing incredibly well on all three products, He started eating again, and regaining the weight he had lost. He barely has any incontinence

problems anymore and when he had  one, after months without a problem, it was tiny, about 1/4 cup worth not 1 quart worth of urine. I'm quite pleased with all these products, and glad that the dog is doing so much better.  

Wild Goose Chase

Well sometimes dog crates are useful for carrying animals other than dogs in them! My friend who has a small farm including chickens, ducks, goats, sheep and a LLama, recently saw some geese in the front yard of a property while driving on the highway to town. She thought to herself " boy I'd really like to get some nice big geese like those" Well in an odd stroke of rural synchronicity, the man who lived in that house somehow knew that she had a farm full of animals. The very next day after my friend saw the geese, the man came knocking on her door asking if she had lost some geese. She said no, and he offered them to her because they had shown up on his place and he was feeding them but didn't really want them. I suppose there may be something to the mindset of asking the universe and then receiving your request. She called me up to see if I would help round up the geese and transport them back to her house. I decided to take my old 12 year old Australian Cattle dog with me as he is intelligent, a mind reader, and relatively mellow around livestock as compared to my younger Australian Shepherd who is learning but not so quick to understand my wishes and not quite so reliable. I have recently had the Aussie Shepherd with goats, but on a leash with a large link choke chain and a few corrections, Woodhouse style, before he fell in line. I loaded up my car with a large dog crate, my dog, a puffy winter jacket and gloves, for my protection, and drove to my friend's house where we loaded up her car with a large dog crate, fencing and protective gear.Before heading off, I had to sarcastically mention, as I am at heart, rather a rational, analytical, person " pardon me for asking but how much do geese cost to buy them, and is it worth all the risk of injury and trouble to get some free ones?". But of course as she is my friend, and who can really pass up a rural adventure and the chance for a good story?, so off we went. With three adults, one elderly Australian Cattle dog and a large piece of sturdy fencing(not chicken wire) we set about our task. My friend had had some previous experience herding and rounding up poultry and discovered that this sturdier, larger about 5ft by 7ft piece of rigid but wavy fencing was best. After a few humorous attempts with people going in one direction and the geese spooked and moving away from us, we got the dog on a leash and opened the door into a shed and the dog made some high pitched yipping sounds, and the three people made a semi circle, walking in towards them, so the geese quickly ran away from us and into the shed. We then put the fencing on top of them,as they were cornered in the back, and then we put a large dog crate with the door open and some food trailing up to and into the dog crate, on the opposite end, and then pushed on the back of the fencing, that was over top of the geese and like toothpaste moving up the tube, herded them into the large dog crate, relatively easily, with no one getting bitten, flapped at, or injured, just hissed at by the biggest goose whose neck seemed as big around as my thigh almost. Phew, we were thinking, we might have had to grab them like a football, as the book said and lift them into the crate! My little rescue Australian Cattle dog seemed pleased at the job he'd done. We were all relieved that it went relatively quickly and easily including the part where we two women lifted a dog crate full of 4 large geese into the car, and then out and up a snowy, icy, hill to the enclosed poultry area without dropping them. There were a few tense moments of geese distress when we accidentally tilted the dog crate while walking up the hill, but not too unsettling for the geese when everything was said and done. The geese are now doing well with their new poultry family.