Our six-year-old Maltese is a neutered male and has never had any health issues until very recently. He recently was struggling to urinate and had some blood in his urine, so I took him to our vet.

The primary cause of bladder stones is not completely emptying the bladder of urine. Benjamin Voros/Unsplash All of us have heard of kidney stones, but what about bladder stones? Yes, stones can form ...

Bladder stones are a common problem with dogs. Bladder stones are solid mineral deposits that form in the bladder. Tiny crystals form in the urine and over time they bond together to form bladder ...

Q: My Maltese dog has bladder stones and we’re told they need to be removed with surgery. But I’ve been reading things that say stones can be dissolved with a special diet or with a laser. Is surgery ...

Urinary stasis and other factors appear to play a role in its pathogenesis. The following article features coverage from the American Urological Association (AUA) 2019 meeting. Click here to read more ...

It took the expertise of three veterinarians from the New England Wildlife Center to carefully remove a one-pound bladder stone from a pet desert tortoise. The bladder stone, also known as a urolith, ...

Doctors at a South Shore animal hospital treated a turtle with a baseball-sized bladder stone on Wednesday.According to a social media post by the New England Wildlife Center, the chelonian had a ...

Bladder stones are a common problem with dogs. Bladder stones are solid mineral deposits that form in the bladder. Tiny crystals form in the urine and over time they bond together to form bladder ...