Koda

Update-

We put Koda on steroids to stimulate his appetite. And so far he has responded and has started to eat. Not as much as usual but since he went 2 weeks and consumed an entire 1/4 of a can of dog food, this is improvement.

The problem with the tests is they all keep coming back within the normal range except for a slightly lower white cell count. It’s slightly lower but not enough out of the normal range to indicate anything. His UA has bacteria and small traces of blood, but again not to enough to locate any specific thing except an infection somewhere in the dog. We’ve run a bunch of other tests testing kidney, liver etc function-all w.in the normal range. We even looked at some of atypical diseases and those tests all came back negative.

Pretty much the only thing we haven’t done is an ultrasound. But realistically anything we find via ultrasound is not going to be treatable. My new vet (since my old one moved 😥 but has been consulting on this) is worried it might be bone cancer. 🙁 🙁

Our best hope is he forgot how good it was to eat and this will stimulate his appetite and he will recover…He is feeling better and more like himself, but I am worried that the steroids are the reason he’s feeling better…not that we’ve found/solved the problem. So for right now we’re just sitting tight and crossing our fingers.