My dog was diagnosed with mild liver failure a couple of yrs ago (she's 13 now), and refused to eat hills cd, so the vets were happy for her to stay on her usual diet.
A couple of weeks ago, she became reluctant to eat, a few days later she collapsed for a few seconds. The vets werent sure if she had a splenic tumour, it was enlarged and her abdomen was tender, they wanted to open her up but said if it was cancer they wouldnt bring her around from the anaesthetic. I was (obviously) reluctant for this, her ALT blood was elevated but not as high as on diagnosis of liver failure. They gave her a steroid injection, started oxycare antibiotics and zentonil. Her appetite picked up and on a re-visit the spleen was normal size and her abdomen was non tender. Initially she would only eat chicken and potatoes then i was able to introduce dog food similar to ceasars, she wont eat usual food, then she stopped eating that, now will only eat chicken the vets say there is nothing they can do
2006-10-18
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kelari
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