Author Topic: Sudden appetite increase, ?weight loss (Read 7543 times)

doganjo · « **Reply #15 on:** April 16, 2012, 10:32:15 pm »

Quote from: YorkshireLass on April 16, 2012, 07:47:22 pm

Vet booked for Wednesday evening Though I bet it feels like a long wait!

Urine sample collection would be interesting...she has a kind of...rotational...sprinkler...approach

For now I'm giving her extra food, but not crazy amounts.

Put a towel down, and squeeze out into a container?

Mammyshaz · « **Reply #16 on:** April 19, 2012, 10:28:41 pm »

Under active thyroid causes weight gain. Dogs don't suffer from overactive thyroids. This however is common in old cats with the above symptoms described.
Be wary of using wrung out towel for contamination and giving false results on tests.

Hope things are ok Yorkshirelass

doganjo · « **Reply #17 on:** April 19, 2012, 11:35:56 pm »

Quote from: Mammyshaz on April 19, 2012, 10:28:41 pm

Be wary of using wrung out towel for contamination and giving false results on tests.

I did mean a newly laundered one

YorkshireLass · « **Reply #18 on:** April 20, 2012, 05:29:25 pm »

Vet shrugged.
Temp normal, her weight hadn't actually changed (my scale batteries have vanished so I couldn't weigh her), no obvious signs upon having her belly squidged....so

She's fine in herself, just have to see how we go

jaykay · « **Reply #19 on:** April 20, 2012, 06:16:10 pm »

Oh well, I suppose if it had been something drastic they would have found it

Mammyshaz · « **Reply #20 on:** April 20, 2012, 06:46:26 pm »

Oh that's good news

doganjo · « **Reply #21 on:** April 20, 2012, 07:17:02 pm »

Thank goodness, it may just have been a temporary hungry spell. Is she still eating more than usual?

Just had a thought - was she fairly slim before, even though you said she was a bit greedy? Perhaps she is just settling into middle age?

thestephens · « **Reply #22 on:** April 20, 2012, 09:40:48 pm »

we had to take a urine sample from our girl lab, made a contraption by halving a plastic milk bottle, when she went to squat, slipped it under, worked a treat, bad news is she has renal failure!

YorkshireLass · « **Reply #23 on:** April 20, 2012, 10:00:51 pm »

Quote from: doganjo on April 20, 2012, 07:17:02 pm

Thank goodness, it may just have been a temporary hungry spell. Is she still eating more than usual?

Just had a thought - was she fairly slim before, even though you said she was a bit greedy? Perhaps she is just settling into middle age?

Yes she's on the lean side (well, one of us has to be!).
I thought the appetite was settling down but I just found her face-first in the sack of dog food

my faut for leaving that door open!

Sorry to hear about your lab thestephens