<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Hi Maureen!</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Mathilda and I have had a great deal of experience with back-to-back urinary tract infections. She started at about one year of age, would get a UTI, dose of antibiotics, be all better and then a couple of months later, would get another UTI. She is quite a "low" basset with lots of saggy skin at the back (we call her baggypants when she walks away from us.) Anyway, after four UTIs in less then 8 months, I started asking the vet for options. She felt that it was because Mathilda is so low to the ground and has the excess skin, that when she squats to pee, especially in the snow, the flow of urine doesn't actually clear "that area." This allows the bacteria to grow and it is a relatively short trip up the ureter and ta-dah... UTI.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Solution... baby wipes. The vet recommended getting Pampers baby wipes (sensitive skin of course for sensitive bassets!) and now whenever Mathilda comes in from a bathroom break, I wipe her with a baby wipe. I also have a different shampoo from the vet which I use exclusively on her nether-regions when she has a bath. But, the baby wipes (knock wood) have done the trick. She has not had a UTI in about 7 months, which is the longest she has ever gone without an infection.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">So... you may want to give it a try and see if it works for Chloe (much preferable to a butt lift!)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Celine and Mathilda</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>