Is this a cat or a dog?
That may be a solvable problem. Freya ( pics upthread ) went through that in the last year. She dropped three pounds in seven months. Up until the final days there were no other symptoms.
It reached an acute stage over the NY holidays. She quit eating or drinking and was clearly dehydrated. Her eyes were obviously shrunken, and were receding. She looked half dead.
We pulled out our subcutaneous drip equipment and started rehydrating her. Then we got her to the vet as soon as they opened on Jan 2nd.
He couldnāt find anything wrong. He hypothesized some kind of intestinal blockage that had finally passed. He prescribed an anti-nausea drug. We gave her that for the next few days and continued with the subcutaneous fluids.
She recovered quickly and has put a pound and a half back on in just the last several weeks.
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God I hope so! Heās only 10 months old!!!
Hopefully something with the hormones being thrown off. Heās eating and drinking more than enough to survive, just nothing like he was and this all coincides with getting neutered.
Perhaps we never beat the wormsā¦ Heās been dewormed 4X when it should only have been once. Sample going to the lab tomorrow to check againā¦
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Sheās a 10 week old Pekingese puppy <3
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could be diabetes
kidney disease
cushings
other not such fun stuff
My sweet Charlotte āingestedā something strange. Started losing weight (sheās just 7 pounds to begin with), NYE morning she started doing weird things, I never like dogs doing weird thingsā¦ Off to the vet immediately.
Emergency surgery to remove āstrange thingā from the upper top of her stomach
No idea what it was, where it came fromā¦
12 stitches in her belly, some pain meds and $2000 later she was sleeping soundly and acted like nothing ever happenedā¦
Blood tests for poor Ollie. Maybe some rads of his chest and stomach.
Sending healthy energy to this sweet guy! Keep us posted.
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@JustForFunStuff Have you been watching āAll Creatures Great and Smallā on PBS? The pampered Pekingese Tricki Woo is often featured on the show.
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Love Tricki Woo!!!
My little lady will grow up to look very much like him as will her brothers Cooper and Jasperā¦
Such adorable little dust mops. I have a whole house FULL of them!
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hoping for a speedy and good diagnosis and recovery for Ollie. I feel like heās our forum mascot.
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donāt forget your OTC nootropicsā¦
I canāt function an hour with out them. 
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Or, it could be nothing but my wild imaginationā¦ Just got back from the vet.
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Heās lost 4oz. Nothing to be worried about right after surgery. Was 10lbs 14oz, now 10-10.
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Crystals - Vet doesnāt even know why they called me about this. Itās normal in the way the samples are taken, refrigerated, shipped, tested. Like anything else, things will ācome out of solutionā through all of that.
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Vet even ultra-sounded his bladder just to make sure - perfect.
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Not drinking much - Also nothing to be worried about.
Bottom line is heās fine and recovering well from his clip and chip. He just needs to rest and relax and fatten up de-stressed.
Brought in a ā ā ā ā ā sample in today (I canāt believe the word f e c a l is censored). If thatās clear, we can take at least a year off from this vet craziness. Iāve lost count, but I think heās been in at least 12X since June.
He is and will remain so for a long time. 
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Fixed
The squirrel in my post upthread must have spread the word about the free-eats.
The mama doe head-butted the feeder until it emptied its contents on the snow so the yearlings could feed.
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I hadnāt quite spelled it out in my head, but yes ā I have felt that.
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Nah.
That GRACE.
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Bad newsā¦ Not clear and now he has some sort of parasite Iāve never heard of. Curious as to where he got that from since heās had a few fecal tests before and only round worms came back postive.
The good news - we beat the round worms.
The bad news - weāve got something else to deal withā¦ Back to the vet tomorrow and again in 2 weeks because the techs are the only people on this planet that can get him to take a tablet.
Then another test to see if heās completely clear.
Possible reasons for this new parasite:
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Did he pick it up when he was at the vet 2 weeks ago for his clip and chip.
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Does Kara have parasites for the last 12 years and we never knew it. Ollie uses her litter boxes. Kara has never been out of this house in 12 years, from the moment we brought her home. Sheās terrified of the outside.
Going to have her poo poo tested to see.
Never ends with this little bastard that we all love. LOL
I was doing the dishes and I was talking to my wife and daughter about how the vet hadnāt called with results and that was good news. This was at 9:50PM tonight. 5 mins later the phone rangā¦ FML
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This is why we needed the hug icon. 
So sorry for Ollie and the family.
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Haha, thanks. All good here. Is what it is. Still a mystery though where this came from that we will figure out.
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Are we going someplace? 
LOL
It is Roundworms again. Vet tech used the technical name on the phone last night. We have a strategy going forward to try and beat them once and for all.
Humans canāt get them and they arenāt necessarily dangerous to healthy adult cats but we would like to end this wormy nightmare.
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Ize is Fur-GPS!