whats the difference?

[annie_so_pink]

What is the difference between Kidney Failure and Kidney Stones? I mean I know that they are obviously different but what are symptomns of them, and stuff like that....

[D.Schäferhund]

Kidneystones is rather easyer to handle then A Kidney failure.
Kidneystones can be removed, and are "just" painfull for who ever has them. do not know much about that, sometimes they pass on their own.

Kidney failure is much worse and ends up deadly. A failure has probably a lot of faces.
Our old dog had Kidneyfailure, he was 13 then. Amazingly he recovered after the first big hit. he fell arround couldn't move, didn't eat. we took him to the vet ASAP.
The Vet thought he would not recover. but he did.
The further symtoms where not that much seen.
The Kidney failure had the consequences that the brain got poisened. the Kidney did not do her job anymore (cleaning the blood).
Thus it got poisened he had no pain, the doctor explained it is like beeing on drugs, like having a nice trip all the time.
We had to get him on a special diet, this was all we could do. regular bloodtests, too. it went up and down all the time.
He had scores round 4 or 6 then down to 4, the vet said by now a "normal" dog would lay arround , apethetic, not beeing able to do much. But he was wake alert and still on the hunt after bitches. he came outside with us and even played.
One week before we had to put him down, he even broke out of the garden and followed us on a one mile walk( my sweety was in heat) and he in a fairly bad condition, but these instincts where still strong)
Then the poisening got so bad, the last test showed a 7, it was just a matter of time...
about two weeks later he quit eating, due to the fact that he felt no appetite anymore, caused by the brainpoisening.
After not eating for three days and him just laying arround, spaced out we decided it is time, before he starves himself to death.
he made it as long as over half a year....

this is what i can tell you about Kidney failure, and Kidney stones .
I hoped it helped a little. I am sure others can tell more, too.
Kat