I am finding that holding Mac up while facing the same direction works better than my facing his rear but that it kinda squeezes his knees together and somewhat pinches the belly band in place and if not careful keeps it from getting seated correctly upon placement, but it is a bit easier otherwise....

Thank you for all pf the links, I will check them out and the straddling technique. I have tried something similar but I was facing the wrong direction

Sigh, well I will look at the links you provided and we actually have anipryl on the way and fingers crossed it works. May I ask, how did you manage to change your dogs belly bands without making a huge mess? Mac is peeing a lot and almost every time I take his belly band off he pees more and trying...

Would renal insufficiency not be indicated on a chemistry? We did both the chemistry and a urinalysis and the only thing brought to my attention was his bladder infection. We did attempt to take him off of the bethanechol and prazosin and so far so good as far as his urine production goes (no shorta...

When you say the bethanechol made things worse do you mean your dogged stopped producing urine. I honestly never even considered that mac had an issue with lack of production until after I discontinued the bethanechol due to the uncontrollable amount that was produced, then he essentially stopped pr...

Hello, my 13 year old dog Mac (73lbs) was diagnosed with likely having degenerative myelopothy and at the time of diagnosis he suffered from incontinence (both urine and fecal) but he also suffers from cognitive decline so I attributed the "incontinence" to what appeared to be forgetting t...