I moved out of my parents house about 6 months ago, but had to leave my dog with them. Thankfully they're only about 20 minutes away, so I see them often. My dog has chronic kidney failure. Got a phone call this morning "Can you drive over and set up a bag of fluids? The dog's not eating and I think a little SC fluids will help her."
Last time the dog was "a little off" she ended up in ICU for a few days on IVF at 200mls/hr. I'm afraid that in the time it will take me to get my own place with a yard, my mom is going to kill my dog. Google has told her everything she needs to know about kidney disease.
A few weeks ago I got yelled at for suggesting that her straining to defecate was due to her kidneys - because *obviously* it was a foreign body and *obviously* I don't know what kidney disease looks like. $400 of radiograph and ultrasound later (which I also got yelled at for) ... no foreign body, but her Creatinine was 5+ and her BUN was 60+.
But don't worry, my mom says, sucralfate will fix it.