Alayne and I gave blind Brynn, now 5 months old, a bath this afternoon … well, more like a shower with a hose. Brynn has an ectopic ureter, which means one kidney is sending urine not to her bladder but instead to her uterus. (Ectopic ureters can actually end up taking urine to the strangest places, even to the intestines.) As a result, she leaks urine constantly, and it dribbles down her backside and onto her rear legs.
In warmer months this wasn’t too much of a problem, but now that winter is here (at least here in Montana!), keeping her clean is difficult. Fortunately we have hot and cold running water at Beauty’s Barn, so we could hose her down outside with very warm water, then take her into the heated medical stall to scrub down her hindquarters. We finished with a warm water rinse outside, then took her back into the medical stall and left her there to dry.
I took this photo right after we got done. Brynn was not very happy with our efforts and threw quite the temper tantrum. Ordinarily she is very placid and calm and sweet, but she did not want us messing with her backside today, and she let us know it in no uncertain terms! In any case, we got through it, and Alayne was giving her some grain as a post-bath treat.
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