dog sore all over with difficulty getting up
My dog (11yo Lab/Dalmatian mix, male neutered) lately is not eating, seems very sore (more than usual as he has a bit of arthritus), having trouble getting up, very lethargic and yesterday and day before we found him down by the creek in the rain as if he was trying to kill himself. We have checked him for ticks. He has had skin cancers cut out in the past but we didnt get a biopsy to see if it were cancer. He is still drinking a bit of water but I don’t think he has done a poo for a few days. He has had no food for 3 days now. I want to take him to the vet but he is quite big and hard to get into the car. He is very miserable but not yelping in pain although he probably is.
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dog with breathing difficulties
Seamus (13yo black Labrador, male) was panting easily with very little exertion for a few months. I took him to the vet who took xrays and said he had rough lungs and to keep in AC during summer. Then Seamus began making noises like he was trying to ‘hack up a furball’, this continued for awhile (nothing ever came up). More xrays and sonograms and the diagonosis is COPD (no one smokes but I don’t know what is first 6 years were like). He is on Tussigon (unk. mg.) 1/2 tab. at night, Terbutline 2.5 mg. 2 x a day and dexamethasone .25 mg 1/2 tablet every other day. Lately he wakes up at night and sounds like he is trying to spit up fluid. Does the diagonosis sound right and is there anything I can give him to ‘dry up’ his lungs? Thank you.
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cat with lump on shoulder
He (2yo male tabby neutered) lives both in and out, spending most of his time in. He has something under his skin on his right side, just behind the shoulder. Its about four inches long, crooked, I woul say a little larger, in diameter than a pipe cleaner. It doesn’t seem to hurt him but he knows when you are feeling of it, and it seems to make him uncomfortable to have you continue. A tumor perhaps?
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