Your dog's bladder infection isn't one of them. So unless the additional testing costs are genuinely out of reach, don't settle for guesswork and hope.

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In dogs, most bladder tumors develop where the ureters enter and the urethra exits the bladder. Invasion of the tumor at this location, called the trigone, makes surgical treatment difficult.