VetriScience Bladder Health Smoke Flavored Chewable Tablets, Bladder Strength & Urinary Tract Supplement for Dogs, for Leakage and Overactive Bladders, 90 Count

FINALLY!My 90 lb, 15-year-old dog has been having bladder issues for way too long. I've tried multiple products and none of them worked for long. Finally happened upon this one. I give her one and a half pills in the first part of the day and one and a half with her dinner at night. She doesn't like to eat them straight. I have to put it in a mortar and pestle and crush it up. It only takes a couple minutes so it's not that big a deal. I mix it with anything else and she'll eat it right up. When I make her dinner at night I can throw the one and a half pieces in there without crushing them and she'll eat them. It's just the first dose, as a snack, she won't eat plain.These pills work! I was seriously in a bind. I don't have ready laundry facilities and I was running out of blankets and towels. All her beds had been peed on. Nothing was clean! Her body was almost impossible to keep clean as well. Very very frustrating. Within about 48 hours they started to work. I'm about to finish my first bottle. She has absolutely no incontinence issues at all! This is a huge game changer. Now if I can just find something for her random pooping! Anyone got any suggestions?

So I am sure this may not fit for all dogs, because each case is different, but it worked great for my dog. I have already reordered more. It has been a lifesaver for us. Here is our situation so hopefully this helps others in a similar situation:My dog is a 1.5 yr old Border Collie/Black Lab mix. She was fully house trained very young and really never ever had accidents in the house. She was spayed at about 4 months.She did have 'nervous' excited pee-pee once and a while, for example when new guests came to the house, but that was very predictable, a small amount and happened only once in a great while.Then suddenly one evening recently we found her laying in a puddle - where she always sleeps/relaxes in a corner of the kitchen on the cool floor. She was drenched and it was a huge puddle, not a few drops - really out of nowhere. From then on it was really bad - happening maybe 4 times a day. She had no idea what was happening and was clearly upset by it. It would always happen when she was laying down relaxing or sleeping - mostly in the evenings.I took her to the vet and they gave her antibiotics to clear up any UTI and see if that would fix the issue. She did the full course and no change.Next visit, the vet said that some adult spayed females develop spay incontinence as adult dogs - happening at age 1 or later and they lose control of their bladder because the spaying removes the estrogen source and the dog essentially has no hormones left that help with bladder control. He said there were 2 presciption choices - hormone replacement or Proin. Both choices come with risks so I wanted to check out other options first.Now it gets really interesting...I found this Bladder Strength product and read the good reviews and ordered some. While waiting for it to arrive, I was reading online and found an article where someone cured their dog's bladder problems with soy-based dog food. Then I remembered that the main ingredient in Bladder Strength is a soy extract. And ...women use soy supplements to help with post-menopause and post-hysterectomy symptoms...This all makes total sense with what my vet was telling me about the cause of her incontinence being from spaying! SOY was the key...Soy is a plant estrogen and it can work as a replacement for the missing estrogen in the body.So...armed with all this new knowledge I decide to go look at the ingredients in her current dog food - no soy products. Hmmm. And lo and behold I think back and realize about 4 weeks earlier I had SWITCHED HER FOOD. I looked up her old food ingredients online and voila - loaded with soy. So I inadvertently caused her sudden bladder problems by switching her from her mainstay to a new 'healthier' no filler food!! The soy in the food she had been eating her entire life up to then was soy filled - and was apparently acting as an estrogen replacement for her. I immediately quit giving her the new 'healthy' soy-free food and switched back to the old soy food. Within a few days, her puddles were greatly reduced - not gone - but a big improvement.After about a week back on the old dog food, the Bladder Strength arrived. Since she was not 'cured' completely and because she had always been a 'nervous' pee-pee dog, I decided to start her on the Bladder Strength as well. She is 60 lbs - so 2 pills per day - one on the AM and one in the PM.Within about a week, SHE WAS COMPLETELY CURED!! No puddles, no drips, back to her old happy self!!! And...the nervous pee-pee is also gone! It has been over a month now with no puddles!I think the soy is key, but also the other ingredients in Bladder Strength work together to really help get everything back in working order. She eats them right up like a treat - no problem!So, check your dog food ingredients and see if that might be part of the problem - a soy based food could help...and of course GET SOME BLADDER STRENGTH - it is such a great product.

Our dog is a young, female Brittany (spaniel). We had her spayed young, about 8mo. per the recommendation of our vet. Unfortunately - about a month after spaying, we started to notice wet spots on her bed. At first, they weren't big - maybe a quarter or so in size. I thought she might be drooling - but she's not a drooler, and they weren't exactly in the right place to line up with drool.So, more google investigation revealed that spaniels in particular have a problem with spay incontinence. The frequency over the next couple months was erratic, sometimes it would be after a particularly exciting day or trip to the dog park - other times it would happen for no apparent reason. It didn't happen every day, but it happened enough to be annoying. One thing was for sure - the amount was increasing from quarter size to her whole backside being damp and her bed soaking through.I'm a very tidy person; I couldn't imagine giving up my pup - so I decided something had to be done. This product - along with a few home-'fixes' has worked wonderfully for us.My decision to go with this product was based largely on the positive reviews, and my own research of other products. When I first got it, I started with the dosage recommended. My dog is 32 lbs, just over the weight limit recommended for one pill a day. The first few weeks we had this product, we gave her a pill every night with dinner religiously. No leaks.I then decided to scale back how much I was giving her - just to see what her particular dosage was. I went probably a month or more without giving her a single pill , and she did well. Then, all of a sudden, she started having accidents at night and during the day again - and they were the biggest of all. So back on the pills we have gone. We are now giving her 1/2 pill with breakfast and 1/2 with dinner and no accidents. As long as we are regularly giving her these supplements, we have not had a single accident.A few other things I'd like to note - and might be helpful to anyone trying to figure out what works and is the best for their dog. [My disclaimer] I haven't seen my vet about this problem yet - I was afraid that she would want to give me a prescription drug, and the drugs that are commonly prescribe have some bad side effects I didn't want to have to deal with. I wanted to try a more natural approach than pharmaceutical - and this has done just that.I did try just corn silk tablets. They say that is supposed to help with spay incontinence in some research I did. If you're tossed up between that and this supplement - (maybe because of cost considerations) I'd recommend this product. Partly because the corn silk did nothing for my dog - and now I have a bottle of it sitting around with no use for it. And as long as the price stays <20 then it's fairly competitive for other options on the market.It does smell! When you open the bottle you get this whiff of bad smell. I guess the dogs like it - because mine eats hers right like a treat. I will add the caveat that we only feed our dog dry dog food and dog treats (no human food) so she isn't a very discriminating eater either.Finally - if you're looking for a way to keep the doggy bed clean without having to shove it in the laundry after every accident - here's what worked for us while we were figuring what worked for our dog. [I still have this set up as a just-in-case method cause I hate washing the dog bed.] I took some very thick fabric - think the stuff you would make a canvas tote out of - and created an envelope bed cover for her doggy bed. On the top piece of the cover, I bought a personal waterproof mattress pad that was large enough to fit the top of the dog bed, and sandwiched it between two pieces of the thick fabric so that my dog didn't hear or feel the waterproof pad (she's not a fan of just sticking that on her bed under a towel). So if you can imagine the three pieces of an envelope cover the top piece (that you see) is fabric, pad, fabric, and the two bottom pieces are thick fabric. I put this cover on her bed, so when she leaks, the leak is kept from getting into the plush part of the bed (which takes forever to dry when you wash it) by the personal waterproof pad. When leaks do happen, all I have to do is take the bed cover off, toss the cover in the wash, and dry it (on low so you don't melt the waterproof pad) and put it back on the bed. Way easier than washing the whole bed!(Update) 2015-07 We have re ordered and the product is still working. We have adjusted to a half pill in the evening now with dinner which works. I've experimented with dosage and that seems to be about right for us. I can occasionally forget to give her a pill, and usually we have no accidents unless it was a particularly busy day. She still likes the taste.I did take it with me the next time I saw my vet, and my vet was surprised that it was working for me, but said that there were no dangerous ingredients and to keep giving it to her if it was doing the trick for us. I'm so glad the solution was so simple!