The _special symptoms_ in dogs are uneasiness and frequent changes of
place. The patient passes urine often in small quantity, and with whines
or cries. He walks slowly and stiffly with the back arched, and
compression of the abdomen and especially of the prepubian region is
painful to a marked degree. The tense elastic bladder may often be
distinctly felt through the abdominal walls. The inflamed bladder is
liable to paresis and paralysis with great overdistension, and
aggravation of the general symptoms, the eyes sunken, and dullness,
stupor and coma betraying uræmic poisoning. Some claim rupture of the
bladder as is so common in the ox.
In the main, _treatment_ is as for the horse. Rest, warm bath, or
fomentations, catheterism with aseptic catheter, draw urine through
hypodermic nozzle in prepubian region. Antiseptics: boric or salicylic
acid by the mouth and bladder. Laxatives, and plenty of water are
important. Free access to open air where the animal can urinate, is very
essential. In chronic cases, buchu, copaiba, balsams, or piperazine may
be employed. Mustard blister. Electricity. Small doses of belladonna to
give tone to the bladder.