Male dogs are prone to kidney and urinary tract problems. Dalmatians have a propensity of developing kidney stones due to a genetic impairment in the metabolism of certain type of amino acids from protein digestion and must be put on a diet eliminating these types of amino acids. Neutering the male dog helps to reduce lumen diameter of the urethra within the penis. Any crystals formed by inflammation or bacterial infections of either the kidney or urinary bladder, by virtue of size will plug the opening of the urethra and prevent metabolic protein waste products from being eliminated from the body. This quickly develops into a life-threatening situation of toxic uremic poisoning with signs of vomiting, circulatory collapse, shock and death. The standard orthodox medical and veterinary treatment of inflammations and infections of the kidneys and urinary tract are drugs: antibiotics and steroids. The antibiotics "kill" bacteria and steroids reduce inflammation, swelling and pain, especially if accompanied with blood in the urine. This is well and good in its own right, but what invariably develops is not a one time shot, but reoccurring multiple infections with stronger and different antibiotics having to be administered because the parasite (bacteria, virus, and fungi associated with these infections) reproduce so quickly and acquire a resistance to drugs used that they outstrip the ability of the doctor to eliminate them and always will. That's how they have survived millenniums. In cases of obstructive, uremia-threatening infections, surgical intervention is necessary to open up the urethra and penis, and antibiotic flushes are applied to the system until all crystals, bacteria and debris of red blood cells, and sloughed off necrotic cells are washed out. It is a self-defeating process for orthodoxy does not look at the real causative principles involved that brought that animal or person to the end point of infection and obstruction.  Visit our home page for great discounts on pet supplies and products.