My name is Sam Meisler and I am a small animal veterinarian. Today, we’re going to talk about your dog not eating.
Now, the symptom of inappetence or not eating is a very common symptom and can indicate a wide variety of diseases. Let’s start in the mouth, very rarely; periodontal disease can cause a dog to not eat. The drive to eat is so strong that even with severe, severe periodontal disease. I rarely have a dog actually stop eating. If a tooth is loose and moving around while it is eating, we’ll see some of those stop eating but its remarkable that amount of periodontal disease that we see that does not cause a dog to not eat. Anyway we start there.
In the mouth, their can be tumors, at the back of the tongue, at the back of the throat area that can cause e a dog not to eat.
Now, stomach problems, any form of nausea is going to cause your dog to lose its appetite. Kidney disease, liver disease, those are the kind of things we look at as far as not eating. A foreign body in the stomach can cause your dog to not eat, other disease as well; cancer, something we’re going to think about.
Not eating is a definite symptom that you want to be concern about, if your dog is not eating for a day or two and that is a habit that its done since it’s born, being a puppy then that may be normal for your dog but if it does something outside that is normal eating habits, then it’s time to see your veterinarian and have a basic physical exam done and then some minimal data base blood work, potentially x rays as well.
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