When we got home, I immediately, let the dog outside. He seemed to be going for a while. I kept calling him, but he wouldn’t come. When we finally got him inside, I notice he was acting somewhat different. He kept squatting and leaking some brownish fluid. He seemed to continue to do this, so I took him outside. He seemed like he was trying to go but nothing would come out. I immediately called the vet’s office and took him to a nearby hospital. The took some x-rays and it was just as we suspected. He had stones in his urethra and in his bladder. The vet said that he was partially obstructed and if it wasn’t taken care of he could die. The options he presented was we could have the stones flushed back into his system, and then go in and perform surgery to remove the stones. He had a total of 6 stones. Both procedures were very costly. One would cost $760 and the other $1200. We opted to have the stones flushed back to alleviate the pain so that he could resume normal operation and schedule an appointment with our regular vet. The vet couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t want to have the surgery done since he had to put him to sleep. I felt that the dog was in enough stress during the week during our absence. The flushing of the stones went well and he was done in about 1 hour. It was about 3AM when he was released. It was funny because when he came out of surgery, he was very tired and could bare stand up. I picked him up and took him to the car and when we got home I carried him upstairs into our room and laid him next to my bed and went to sleep.

Ok.. so that might not be the exact quote… but the vet did say something to that effect, and you gotta admit, it is funny.