Female dog repeate UTI help

My Boykin used to get them repeatedly along with agitated skin

Changed food to a salmon base/beef based and the problem seemed to stop. She still has them occasionally (one per year maybe), but just the feed change seemed to reduce both. While it may be just correlation and not causation, I wont be switching her back to chicken based foods.

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salmon base/beef based

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This is 100% the way; get your pup off grain based diet and go to primary meat.

Their piss/rear end smells like a rotten speckle trout head thats been left in the sun/icechestfor 3 days, the dog is constantly peeing small amounts, and dog is constantly licking rear end. That's generally the tell tell signs I've seen.

From what I’ve learned so far in vet school:
UTIs are sometimes very tough to fully eradicate once they get the first one. Bacteria/causative agent can be dormant and non-problematic in the bladder/tissues surrounding urinary tract for quite a while and go undetected then flare up from time to time.

Best thing, as the OBers above mentioned is find a diet/lifestyle that will help minimize whatever is causing the relapses, then just treat it as it comes up.

Grain vs no grain vs type of protein in the diet, hard to say which one is actually better, huge variations breed to breed and within individuals, but anything that would cause inflammation or GI issues should be avoided.

There are prescription diets that the vet can get you on that can help protect the urinary tract and might help lessen the occurrence.

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Just curious how you know when she has a UTI???

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Both recent cases have been confirmed by a trusted veterinarian, but usually frequent urination needs followed by squatting with little coming out, really bad urine stench, crying at the front door at 2am to go out, etc...

I've captured a few urine samples using a old frying pan and the color is not a healthy urine color according to those charts you see in bathrooms that tell us how much to hydrate, and also it STINKS.

After she's had so many of them, its like diagnosing a mild infection in a small child, you get the hang of it.

Had this issue with my female lab and went to all distilled water for her

Cleaned up pretty quick