[Dailydrool] water aggression, hunger, weight gain

[Menzie Campbell]

Hi, cathy.  I do have one suggestion.  As long as you are having your
vet run bloodwork, please have them run a full thyroid panel.  When my
Bozlee had low thyroid, he was often snarky and snappy for no good
reason, he gained weight even though we had him on a diet, was
insanely hungry (I mean, all bassets live for food, but he was NUTS),
and seemed to always be thirsty.  He had only a slightly low
(hypoactive) thyroid when we ran the test.  But once we put him on a
low dose of thyroid medicine, all of those symptoms went away.
 Best,
Menzie


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From: "cathy.rice1" <cathy.rice1 at att.net>
To: <dailydrool at dailydrool.org>
Cc:
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 16:51:32 -0400
Subject: [Dailydrool] Requesting advice
I am fostering a dog for Ohio Basset Hound rescue and would appreciate
any advice or info anyone would care to give. Kuder is a 7 year old
male, already neutered, when he was relinquished by his owners to the
local shelter because they said they were away too much and not able
to give him the attention he needed. When the shelter called us they
said they considered him unadoptable because he was very much
overweight and would drink water until he made himself sick. They
suspected he was diabetic. We had bloodwork and urinalysis done and
Kuder was put on a weight reduction diet. The bloodwork came back fine
but the urinalysis showed a very bad UTI which the vet suspected had
been going on for a while.
-- 
Menzie Campbell
Save a Life - Don't Shop, ADOPT!
Owned by Pw. Annabelle ATB, Hector TVL, Barney, Bozlee, Millie and now
Pippa and Bonnie (the sisters)