034RUNNER
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Not the puppy - we also have a 14 year old German Shepherd/Husky named Saki (see my user picture).
I'll try to be brief - Saki has always been in good health; we've had her since she was 3 months old. We adopted her along with her sister, Ducati, who passed in 2009. She's a mellow dog, tolerates my puppy and whatever else is going on.
Within the last year she's lost a ton of weight. We took her to the vet and also mentioned how she's been having this crazy disgusting discharge from her eye. Vet wasn't concerned, said the weight loss from due to old age, less movement, less interest in food. She was eating, though.
That was about a year ago. We started taking her to the vet this month again because she now drinks water excessively. She sits there and turns thr water into foam, then drinks the foam. It's tough to hear/watch. She somehow lost 13 pounds in one week - she seemed to be eating fine and whatnot. She's given her own dog food along with whatever else we may be eating, including full slices of pizza at this point, just so we can put weight on her.
She literally is skin and bones right now. Vet had run tests for cushings, thyroid, diabetes, etc, and nothing has been shown. They did x-rays and saw nothing. At this point we are thinking she may have cancer they aren't able to find. The vet doesn't know what to do or what to tell us. She says she doesn't think we should go to a specialist and spend big money sine there's no promise of even that showing anything.
I don't know what to do anymore. Since just basics tests have been done, I don't know if it's even worth it to go to another vet. She seems to be eating less. I guess there is a silver lining in my being unemployed right now, because I can sit and try to feed her all day. It takes some convincing but she will eat some American cheese, crackers with peanut butter, dog food with tuna, and whatever else we can mix up for her. I even started giving her vanilla Ensure, which she seems to not mind, but like everything else, she doesn't want tons of.
Does anyone have any advice? It's heartbreaking because she seems in good spirits for the most part - she has lost some of her hearing and seems a little senile; when I take her outside she stands in the middle of the driveway looking around, looking lost, sometimes forgetting to "go".
It seems like this forum has a lot of dog people on here, so I figured I would see if anyone has any advice. Thanks in advance.
Here's a picture she's, behind the puppy (probably for the better so you don't see how skinny she is). But see, she looks happy. Even in my user pic from last May she looks happy!
I'll try to be brief - Saki has always been in good health; we've had her since she was 3 months old. We adopted her along with her sister, Ducati, who passed in 2009. She's a mellow dog, tolerates my puppy and whatever else is going on.
Within the last year she's lost a ton of weight. We took her to the vet and also mentioned how she's been having this crazy disgusting discharge from her eye. Vet wasn't concerned, said the weight loss from due to old age, less movement, less interest in food. She was eating, though.
That was about a year ago. We started taking her to the vet this month again because she now drinks water excessively. She sits there and turns thr water into foam, then drinks the foam. It's tough to hear/watch. She somehow lost 13 pounds in one week - she seemed to be eating fine and whatnot. She's given her own dog food along with whatever else we may be eating, including full slices of pizza at this point, just so we can put weight on her.
She literally is skin and bones right now. Vet had run tests for cushings, thyroid, diabetes, etc, and nothing has been shown. They did x-rays and saw nothing. At this point we are thinking she may have cancer they aren't able to find. The vet doesn't know what to do or what to tell us. She says she doesn't think we should go to a specialist and spend big money sine there's no promise of even that showing anything.
I don't know what to do anymore. Since just basics tests have been done, I don't know if it's even worth it to go to another vet. She seems to be eating less. I guess there is a silver lining in my being unemployed right now, because I can sit and try to feed her all day. It takes some convincing but she will eat some American cheese, crackers with peanut butter, dog food with tuna, and whatever else we can mix up for her. I even started giving her vanilla Ensure, which she seems to not mind, but like everything else, she doesn't want tons of.
Does anyone have any advice? It's heartbreaking because she seems in good spirits for the most part - she has lost some of her hearing and seems a little senile; when I take her outside she stands in the middle of the driveway looking around, looking lost, sometimes forgetting to "go".
It seems like this forum has a lot of dog people on here, so I figured I would see if anyone has any advice. Thanks in advance.
Here's a picture she's, behind the puppy (probably for the better so you don't see how skinny she is). But see, she looks happy. Even in my user pic from last May she looks happy!
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